Business rates in Camden

5,131 retail, hospitality and leisure premises across 429 streets, each checked against the 2026 rating list. Pick your street below.

London›Camden
Premises assessed
5,131
Median rateable value
£37,250
Streets covered
429

In Camden, 711 of 5,131 shops, cafés, restaurants and leisure premises (13.9%) saw their rateable value rise by 25% or more at the April 2026 revaluation, according to our analysis of the 2026 rating list (data as of August 2026).

482 (9.4%) have a rateable value of £12,000 or less, the band where small business rate relief can take the bill to nil, on rateable value alone.

How much are business rates in Camden?

A typical Camden shop or restaurant on the 2026 list has a rateable value of £37,250. At the 2026/27 small retail, hospitality and leisure multiplier of 38.2p that is about £14,230 a year before any relief. Small business rate relief, transitional relief and supporting small business relief can reduce it, in some cases to nil. What is actually on a bill only the bill shows.

How many shops in Camden pay no business rates?

482 of the 5,105 retail, hospitality and leisure premises in Camden (9.4%) have a 2026 rateable value of £12,000 or below. That is the band where small business rate relief can take the bill to nil, for an occupier of one property. A further 5.7% sit in the tapered band. The bill shows whether the relief has been claimed.

How much did rateable values change in Camden at the 2026 revaluation?

The typical change against the 2023 list is +13.5%. 13.9% of premises rose by 25% or more and 5.2% fell. 169 premises moved from £12,000 or below to above it, which is what supporting small business relief 2026 is for.

Which reliefs should a Camden shop or café check in 2026/27?

Four. Small business rate relief, which has to be claimed. The retail, hospitality and leisure multiplier, which depends on how the council has coded the property. Transitional relief and supporting small business relief, which cap the rise after the revaluation and should appear automatically. And for the 235 pubs in Camden, the 15% pubs and live music venues relief. Send the address and we tell you which apply, free.

WHAT THE PUBLIC RECORD SHOWS FOR CAMDEN
Premises typeCountShare
Retail 3,603 70.2%
Hospitality 1,367 26.6%
Leisure 161 3.1%

Flags across Camden

FlagPremisesShare
Rateable value inside the full small business relief band 482 9.4%
Rateable value inside the tapered band 272 5.3%
Rate per m² above the street median for comparable use 392 7.6%
Valuation rose 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 711 13.9%
Valuation fell 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 74 1.4%
Nothing flagged from public data. Needs the bill 3,440 67.0%

A flag records where a premises sits in the public record. It is not a finding that a bill is wrong. The bill itself shows which reliefs and which multiplier were applied. Source: 2026 rating list, data as of August 2026.

Rateable values in Camden

The spread of rateable values across Camden, by type of premises. If yours sits well outside the range for its type, that is worth understanding. On its own it is not evidence of an error.

Premises typePremises Lower quartileMedian Upper quartile
All retail, hospitality and leisure 5,105 £20,500 £37,250 £74,500
Retail 3,587 £17,500 £31,500 £58,500
Hospitality 1,358 £31,750 £57,000 £116,000
Leisure 160 £35,688 £69,500 £139,750

Value per square metre in Camden

Rateable values are largely built from a rate per square metre applied to the trading area. That rate is what decides your valuation. It is published only in the detailed valuations, premises by premises. The summary below is ours.

Premises typeWith published area Lower quartileMedian Upper quartile
All retail, hospitality and leisure 4,655 £505 £750 £1,100
Retail 3,584 £550 £825 £1,215
Hospitality 953 £475 £675 £900
Leisure 118 £177 £308 £516

Per square metre of floor area (NIA), from the published detailed valuations. Premises without a published area are not counted.

The most valuable retail streets in Camden

Streets ranked by the median value per square metre of their retail, hospitality and leisure premises. Only streets with at least five premises with a published area are ranked. 151 of 429 qualify.

#Street Premises Median £/m² Median RV
1 Pancras Road NW1 65 £2,500 £158,000
2 Euston Road N1 28 £2,450 £131,500
3 Neal Street WC2H 44 £2,400 £88,000
4 Monmouth Street WC2H 38 £2,100 £69,500
5 Tottenham Court Road W1T 122 £1,785 £128,000
6 Charing Cross Road WC2H 9 £1,750 £43,500
7 Earlham Street WC2H 33 £1,750 £69,500
8 Camden High Street NW1 229 £1,700 £67,500
9 Hampstead High Street NW3 64 £1,650 £73,750
10 Flask Walk NW3 14 £1,550 £32,250
11 Regents Park Road NW1 54 £1,550 £50,500
12 Greville Street EC1N 25 £1,500 £47,250
13 Hatton Garden EC1N 76 £1,500 £58,500
14 Shaftesbury Avenue WC2H 34 £1,460 £57,250
15 Great Russell Street WC1B 33 £1,430 £48,250
16 Shelton Street WC2H 8 £1,370 £76,000
17 Goodge Street W1T 44 £1,325 £44,000
18 Holborn EC1N 5 £1,310 £201,000
19 Kingsway WC2B 30 £1,300 £67,500
20 Neals Yard WC2H 13 £1,300 £38,500
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Questions this data tends to raise

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If there's nothing to save, we say so.