EPC Ratings in Harborough: How Many Homes Are Below Band C Before the 2030 Rule

EPC bands in Harborough, July 2025 to June 2026

46% below C (bands D to G) against 46% in the East Midlands and 40% across England and Wales. Harborough ranks 100 of 318 local authorities for the share below C (1 = highest share). Since 2008, 34,100 EPCs have been lodged for existing homes in Harborough and 64% of them were below C — recent certificates run better than the long-run stock because newer and improved homes transact more.

Harborough splits fairly evenly. 54% of recent certificates are already C or better, 37% are one band short at D, and 8.6% are E, F or G. For a landlord that means the register is worth checking property by property: the same street can hold a certificate that needs nothing and one that needs two bands of work.

Is Harborough moving towards C?

The share below C in Harborough rose year on year, from 42% (July 2024 to June 2025) to 46% (July 2025 to June 2026) — up 3.6 points against −2.5 points across England and Wales. A rise usually says more about which homes happened to sell or let — older, unimproved stock coming to market — than about homes getting worse; what it does mean is that more of what is on the market here needs work before it can be let after 2030.

The homes certified here are larger than typical — an average of 105 m² against 87.1 m² across England and Wales — and insulation, glazing and heating measures scale with floor area, so a D-to-C job here tends to sit at the upper end of any national cost guide.

What the 2030 rule costs in Harborough

Privately rented homes need band C from 1 October 2030, with a £10,000 cap on what a landlord must spend before an exemption can be registered; the rules, exemptions and what counts towards the cap are on the EPC C for rentals by 2030 guide.

Put the £10,000 cap in local terms: average private rent in Harborough is £963 a month (ONS, July 2026), so the cap is roughly 10.4 months of rent — and every month a property stands empty for works costs another £963 on top of the bill. The area’s rents, prices and yields are on Harborough: rents, house prices and yield.

Council tax keeps running while a home is empty for works — Band D in Harborough is £2,390 for 2026/27, and the council adds a 100% premium once a home has stood empty for two years (council tax in Harborough). Whether the certificate and the works are deductible is on EPC, gas and electrical certificates: deductible? — revenue repairs come off the year’s rent, improvements that add capital value do not (allowable expenses guide).

Nearest neighbours in the ranking, in the East Midlands

All 318 areas ranked · council tax in Harborough 2026/27 · rent, prices and yield in Harborough.

MHCLG, Live tables on Energy Performance of Buildings Certificates, table EB1 — domestic EPCs lodged for existing dwellings by energy-efficiency band, published 30 July 2026, latest four quarters (July 2025 to June 2026) summed per local authority; cumulative figures from 2008. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. An EPC is lodged when a home is sold, let or newly built, so these are certificates issued, not a census of the housing stock. Shares, ranks and regional figures are ours, computed across 318 local authorities. Download: CSV.