Statistics at VOA
The HMRC Valuation Office (VO) publish official statistics for England and Wales on Non-Domestic Rating and Council Tax.
This page contains accurate and impartial information about non-domestic rating and Council Tax.
You can find VOA statistics published before November 2014 on the National Archive website.
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has been responsible for publishing official statistics on the private rental market since October 2019.
Prior to October 2019 VOA published private rental market statistics for England only, which can be accessed on the Private rental market statistics page.
Forthcoming publications and announcements
Publication dates for VO’s statistical outputs are pre-announced on the release calendar. An annual publication plan can also be found on the announcements page
As part of the Code of Practice for Official Statistics, any changes to the schedule, including unscheduled revisions or ad hoc releases will be detailed on the announcements page
Ad hoc statistics releases
Publications made by the VO that aren’t official statistics are released as ad hoc statistics. This includes:
- supplementary datasets related to our official statistics
- data in support of VO’s operational reporting
Some statistics may also be published on the FOI disclosure log where they are requested under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 and are judged to be of wider public interest with respect to official statistics.
Search VO statistics
Use the document search to find statistics reports and documents that VO has published.
Corporate procedures and standards
We follow the UK Statistics Authority’s Code of Practice for official statistics when producing our Official Statistics. Further, to improve confidence in our statistics, we have engaged with the Best Practice and Impact Division of the Office for National Statistics to modernise our official statistics products and processes. Following the completion of this work, the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) carried out a compliance check of our Council Tax statistics. The OSR published its report, Compliance Check of Valuation Office Agency (VOA) Council Tax statistics, on 20 March 2024.
HMRC publishes the following policy statements:
- VOA revisions policy
- VOA statement of compliance with the Pre-Release Access to Official Statistics Order 2008
- VOA confidentiality and access policy
- VOA quality policy
Additional resources
Below are additional resources relating to non-domestic rating, Council Tax and the private rental market:
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
- National non-domestic rates collected by councils
- Council Tax statistics
- Tables on rents, lettings and tenancies from English Housing Survey
Welsh Government
- StatsWales: non-domestic rates collection
- Council Tax statistics and research
- StatsWales: private sector rents
Scottish Government
- non-domestic rates revaluation appeals
- Council Tax collection statistics
- Council Tax data
- private sector rent statistics, Scotland, 2010 to 2015
Scottish Assessors Association (SAA)
Northern Ireland
- Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency
- Housing stock statistics
- Summary of valuation lists
- Prime rates
Contact us
The VO statistics team
Email statisticsvo@hmrc.gov.uk