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Industrial rates per square metre by authority

Factories, workshops and industrial units are valued on gross internal area at a rate per square metre. That rate is published for every unit in the country but readable nowhere in plain English. These pages read it, authority by authority.

“Industrial” here is the VOA’s own General Industrial sub-sector: 13 SCat codes, led by 096 (factories, workshops and warehouses), plus business units, vehicle repair workshops and builders merchants. Large distribution warehouses are a separate VOA category and self-storage lockers are left out. Every code is listed on the SCat categories page.

Choose an authority to see its industrial rates street by street — which estate carries which rate per square metre, and how wide the range runs on each.

Industrial rateable values by billing authority: units, median rateable value, median £ per m² and locations
AuthorityUnitsMedian RVMedian £/m²Locations
Barnet487£19,500£15013
Bath & North East Somerset1,086£12,250£9230
Birmingham8,223£13,250£68252
Blackburn with Darwen1,991£10,250£5062
Bolton2,629£10,750£5784
Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole435£16,000£1109
Bradford4,972£11,750£60151
Brent1,922£31,750£14949
Brighton & Hove926£14,000£15025
Bristol3,031£23,000£9491
Bromley871£22,000£11324
Cambridge360£32,375£12910
Camden641£16,250£26017
Cardiff1,980£13,750£6550
Cotswold1,008£13,500£8027
Coventry1,833£17,750£7555
Croydon957£30,500£14026
Derby1,476£14,250£6341
Doncaster2,108£10,750£5563
Dudley3,148£14,500£6091
Ealing2,597£35,500£17564
Enfield1,328£26,125£11537
Exeter686£24,750£8522
Hackney2,395£11,000£28654
Hammersmith & Fulham645£19,500£21017
Haringey1,717£14,750£15529
Harrow456£22,500£14015
Hillingdon1,354£33,000£13038
Hull2,236£12,750£4772
Ipswich703£16,000£6521
Islington1,133£13,750£27623
Kensington & Chelsea535£14,500£36514
Lambeth1,420£13,250£19530
Leeds5,231£16,000£74156
Leicester3,893£11,000£58117
Lewisham1,232£11,500£16328
Lincoln607£13,750£7023
Liverpool2,273£12,500£5555
Luton1,101£26,000£11030
Manchester3,468£11,500£7297
Milton Keynes1,993£28,250£9862
Newcastle upon Tyne1,502£11,250£6746
Newham899£16,000£15023
Newport1,090£9,500£5025
Northampton1,508£23,000£8545
Norwich1,116£16,750£6732
Nottingham2,351£9,800£6385
Oldham2,507£9,700£5974
Oxford338£25,500£1209
Plymouth1,495£12,500£9045
Portsmouth1,117£19,750£9628
Redbridge656£22,750£13016
Rochdale2,343£11,750£6162
Rotherham2,455£12,250£6073
Salford2,103£16,500£7067
Sheffield4,271£12,000£65137
Southampton1,065£15,250£8828
Southwark1,553£17,500£20042
Stockport2,512£11,000£6473
Stoke-on-Trent2,773£10,250£5582
Sunderland1,895£11,500£5463
Swansea1,499£10,000£4735
Telford & Wrekin1,633£18,000£6050
Tower Hamlets2,827£9,100£20877
Wakefield2,679£13,750£7573
Walsall2,673£15,000£6278
Waltham Forest1,241£22,500£17029
Wandsworth1,112£23,750£21324
Warrington1,633£18,250£7550
Wigan2,627£11,500£6773
Wolverhampton2,573£13,250£5970
York991£15,500£7830

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