Business rates in Hackney

3,555 retail, hospitality and leisure premises across 297 streets, each checked against the 2026 rating list. Pick your street below.

London›Hackney
Premises assessed
3,555
Median rateable value
£21,250
Streets covered
297

In Hackney, 1,411 of 3,555 shops, cafés, restaurants and leisure premises (39.7%) 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).

611 (17.2%) 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 Hackney?

A typical Hackney shop or restaurant on the 2026 list has a rateable value of £21,250. At the 2026/27 small retail, hospitality and leisure multiplier of 38.2p that is about £8,118 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 Hackney pay no business rates?

611 of the 3,536 retail, hospitality and leisure premises in Hackney (17.3%) 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 11.6% sit in the tapered band. The bill shows whether the relief has been claimed.

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

The typical change against the 2023 list is +21.2%. 39.9% of premises rose by 25% or more and 1.8% fell. 457 premises moved from £12,000 or below to above it, which is what supporting small business relief 2026 is for.

Which reliefs should a Hackney 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 129 pubs in Hackney, the 15% pubs and live music venues relief. Send the address and we tell you which apply, free.

WHAT THE PUBLIC RECORD SHOWS FOR HACKNEY
Premises typeCountShare
Retail 2,789 78.5%
Hospitality 659 18.5%
Leisure 107 3.0%

Flags across Hackney

FlagPremisesShare
Rateable value inside the full small business relief band 611 17.2%
Rateable value inside the tapered band 378 10.6%
Rate per m² above the street median for comparable use 114 3.2%
Valuation rose 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 1,411 39.7%
Valuation fell 25% or more at the 2026 revaluation 8 0.2%
Nothing flagged from public data. Needs the bill 1,391 39.1%

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 Hackney

The spread of rateable values across Hackney, 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 3,536 £14,000 £21,250 £35,500
Retail 2,776 £13,188 £19,500 £29,750
Hospitality 653 £20,500 £35,250 £71,500
Leisure 107 £22,875 £45,500 £89,750

Value per square metre in Hackney

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 3,329 £460 £590 £735
Retail 2,777 £475 £600 £735
Hospitality 464 £425 £588 £742
Leisure 88 £152 £264 £430

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 Hackney

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. 101 of 297 qualify.

#Street Premises Median £/m² Median RV
1 Shoreditch High Street E1 92 £1,140 £37,500
2 Ridley Road E8 105 £1,020 £12,500
3 Leonard Street EC2A 9 £1,000 £23,500
4 Paul Street EC2A 10 £1,000 £66,250
5 Scrutton Street EC2A 9 £1,000 £28,500
6 Stoke Newington Church Street N16 106 £1,000 £28,250
7 Rivington Street EC2A 20 £990 £33,750
8 Great Eastern Street EC2A 31 £980 £52,500
9 Curtain Road EC2A 23 £950 £71,000
10 Kingsland Road E2 86 £950 £30,250
11 Lauriston Road E9 18 £910 £25,250
12 Charlotte Road EC2A 11 £895 £38,125
13 Westgate Street E8 23 £805 £6,100
14 Kingsland High Street E8 136 £795 £40,750
15 Oldhill Street N16 32 £770 £28,125
16 Wilton Way E8 9 £765 £16,500
17 Hoxton Square N1 9 £750 £100,000
18 Victoria Park Road E9 23 £750 £20,500
19 Albion Road N16 10 £735 £17,875
20 Broadway Market E8 55 £735 £22,625
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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.