Business rates in Croydon

3,886 retail, hospitality and leisure premises across 255 streets, each checked against the 2026 rating list. Pick your street below.

London›Croydon
Premises assessed
3,886
Median rateable value
£14,500
Streets covered
255

In Croydon, 1,311 of 3,886 shops, cafés, restaurants and leisure premises (33.7%) 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).

1,411 (36.3%) 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 Croydon?

A typical Croydon shop or restaurant on the 2026 list has a rateable value of £14,500. At the 2026/27 small retail, hospitality and leisure multiplier of 38.2p that is about £5,539 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 Croydon pay no business rates?

1,411 of the 3,855 retail, hospitality and leisure premises in Croydon (36.6%) 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 17.1% sit in the tapered band. The bill shows whether the relief has been claimed.

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

The typical change against the 2023 list is +17.8%. 34.0% of premises rose by 25% or more and 7.3% fell. 542 premises moved from £12,000 or below to above it, which is what supporting small business relief 2026 is for.

Which reliefs should a Croydon 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 92 pubs in Croydon, the 15% pubs and live music venues relief. Send the address and we tell you which apply, free.

WHAT THE PUBLIC RECORD SHOWS FOR CROYDON
Premises typeCountShare
Retail 3,433 88.3%
Hospitality 361 9.3%
Leisure 92 2.4%

Flags across Croydon

FlagPremisesShare
Rateable value inside the full small business relief band 1,411 36.3%
Rateable value inside the tapered band 610 15.7%
Rate per m² above the street median for comparable use 233 6.0%
Valuation rose 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 1,311 33.7%
Valuation fell 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 70 1.8%
Nothing flagged from public data. Needs the bill 1,148 29.5%

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 Croydon

The spread of rateable values across Croydon, 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 3,855 £10,250 £14,500 £23,750
Retail 3,410 £10,000 £13,750 £21,500
Hospitality 354 £15,062 £25,625 £52,850
Leisure 91 £11,000 £27,000 £100,750

Value per square metre in Croydon

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 3,710 £300 £350 £400
Retail 3,399 £300 £350 £400
Hospitality 235 £300 £350 £425
Leisure 76 £42 £50 £120

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 Croydon

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. 93 of 255 qualify.

#Street Premises Median £/m² Median RV
1 George Street CR0 110 £850 £39,000
2 North End CR0 135 £625 £38,000
3 Central Parade CR0 51 £500 £24,000
4 Station Road CR0 7 £500 £15,000
5 Westow Hill SE19 37 £500 £23,500
6 Westow Street SE19 51 £480 £20,625
7 South End CR0 67 £470 £21,250
8 Church Road SE19 42 £450 £14,250
9 Church Street CR0 68 £450 £28,750
10 Derby Road CR0 8 £450 £11,125
11 London Road CR0 182 £450 £18,500
12 Mead Place CR0 5 £450 £6,800
13 London Road SW16 194 £425 £17,750
14 Selsdon Road CR2 51 £425 £14,125
15 Wellesley Road CR0 17 £420 £25,750
16 Brighton Road CR8 66 £400 £19,000
17 Dingwall Road CR0 7 £400 £36,750
18 High Street CR0 99 £400 £22,750
19 Surrey Street CR0 31 £400 £18,250
20 Wickham Road CR0 76 £390 £14,625
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Questions this data tends to raise

One flat fee: 15% of the savings we secure, confirmed in writing by the council. Nothing saved, nothing to pay.

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