Council tax bands by council (2026/27)
Data last updated
These pages show the 2026/27 council tax charge for every band in each council area, plus how many homes sit in each band and how to challenge your band for free. The average Band D charge in England for 2026/27 is £2,392, a 4.9% rise on 2025/26 (source: MHCLG). Bands are still based on 1991 property values (2003 in Wales); our council tax bands guide explains how they work.
These pages cover all 350 UK billing authorities: every council in England, Wales and Scotland. Every figure is taken from the official government datasets listed in the sources below. See also London's 33 boroughs compared and the highest and cheapest council tax in the UK.
North East
- Darlington (Band D £2,493.83)
- Durham (Band D £2,622.15)
- Gateshead (Band D £2,715.81)
- Hartlepool (Band D £2,560.20)
- Middlesbrough (Band D £2,549.16)
- Newcastle upon Tyne (Band D £2,542.19)
- North Tyneside (Band D £2,461.77)
- Northumberland (Band D £2,596.94)
- Redcar & Cleveland (Band D £2,544.48)
- South Tyneside (Band D £2,434.43)
- Stockton-on-Tees (Band D £2,589.83)
- Sunderland (Band D £2,197.14)
North West
- Blackburn with Darwen (Band D £2,455.27)
- Blackpool (Band D £2,513.22)
- Bolton (Band D £2,399.74)
- Burnley (Band D £2,549.42)
- Bury (Band D £2,555.15)
- Cheshire East (Band D £2,454.87)
- Cheshire West and Chester (Band D £2,517.33)
- Chorley (Band D £2,430.23)
- Cumberland (Band D £2,511.32)
- Fylde (Band D £2,483.94)
- Halton (Band D £2,366.61)
- Hyndburn (Band D £2,465.98)
- Knowsley (Band D £2,488.25)
- Lancaster (Band D £2,503.19)
- Liverpool (Band D £2,673.59)
- Manchester (Band D £2,312.04)
- Oldham (Band D £2,602.23)
- Pendle (Band D £2,640.18)
- Preston (Band D £2,575.74)
- Ribble Valley (Band D £2,386.50)
- Rochdale (Band D £2,600.83)
- Rossendale (Band D £2,519.97)
- Salford (Band D £2,594.45)
- Sefton (Band D £2,583.22)
- South Ribble (Band D £2,442.66)
- St Helens (Band D £2,403.38)
- Stockport (Band D £2,618.90)
- Tameside (Band D £2,447.21)
- Trafford (Band D £2,291.70)
- Warrington (Band D £2,447.61)
- West Lancashire (Band D £2,456.23)
- Westmorland and Furness (Band D £2,507.99)
- Wigan (Band D £2,152.68)
- Wirral (Band D £2,500.59)
- Wyre (Band D £2,460.53)
Yorkshire and The Humber
- Barnsley (Band D £2,325.96)
- Bradford (Band D £2,360.73)
- Calderdale (Band D £2,420.15)
- Doncaster (Band D £2,167.75)
- East Riding of Yorkshire (Band D £2,466.08)
- Kingston upon Hull (Band D £2,295.04)
- Kirklees (Band D £2,441.07)
- Leeds (Band D £2,283.73)
- North East Lincolnshire (Band D £2,483.85)
- North Lincolnshire (Band D £2,348.46)
- North Yorkshire (Band D £2,544.34)
- Rotherham (Band D £2,381.53)
- Sheffield (Band D £2,510.16)
- Wakefield (Band D £2,296.89)
- York (Band D £2,287.15)
East Midlands
- Amber Valley (Band D £2,407.69)
- Ashfield (Band D £2,608.76)
- Bassetlaw (Band D £2,644.95)
- Blaby (Band D £2,490.22)
- Bolsover (Band D £2,559.41)
- Boston (Band D £2,308.73)
- Broxtowe (Band D £2,618.21)
- Charnwood (Band D £2,405.64)
- Chesterfield (Band D £2,339.49)
- City of Nottingham (Band D £2,755.39)
- Derby City (Band D £2,306.00)
- Derbyshire Dales (Band D £2,444.70)
- East Lindsey (Band D £2,275.88)
- Erewash (Band D £2,360.64)
- Gedling (Band D £2,609.55)
- Harborough (Band D £2,389.87)
- High Peak (Band D £2,384.66)
- Hinckley & Bosworth (Band D £2,382.62)
- Leicester City (Band D £2,528.75)
- Lincoln (Band D £2,323.08)
- Mansfield (Band D £2,600.38)
- Melton (Band D £2,429.67)
- Newark & Sherwood (Band D £2,682.10)
- North East Derbyshire (Band D £2,466.57)
- North Kesteven (Band D £2,337.81)
- North Northamptonshire (Band D £2,423.96)
- North West Leicestershire (Band D £2,418.20)
- Oadby & Wigston (Band D £2,406.85)
- Rushcliffe (Band D £2,643.27)
- Rutland (Band D £2,737.58)
- South Derbyshire (Band D £2,339.61)
- South Holland (Band D £2,278.20)
- South Kesteven (Band D £2,260.00)
- West Lindsey (Band D £2,354.25)
- West Northamptonshire (Band D £2,486.66)
West Midlands
- Birmingham (Band D £2,362.90)
- Bromsgrove (Band D £2,478.65)
- Cannock Chase (Band D £2,375.83)
- Coventry (Band D £2,516.72)
- Dudley (Band D £2,144.84)
- East Staffordshire (Band D £2,351.34)
- Herefordshire (Band D £2,574.37)
- Lichfield (Band D £2,351.90)
- Malvern Hills (Band D £2,450.92)
- Newcastle-under-Lyme (Band D £2,334.25)
- North Warwickshire (Band D £2,532.10)
- Nuneaton & Bedworth (Band D £2,502.16)
- Redditch (Band D £2,462.95)
- Rugby (Band D £2,483.05)
- Sandwell (Band D £2,244.46)
- Shropshire (Band D £2,528.18)
- Solihull (Band D £2,197.26)
- South Staffordshire (Band D £2,313.67)
- Stafford (Band D £2,302.68)
- Staffordshire Moorlands (Band D £2,338.21)
- Stoke-on-Trent (Band D £2,183.12)
- Stratford-on-Avon (Band D £2,484.17)
- Tamworth (Band D £2,300.76)
- Telford and the Wrekin (Band D £2,256.26)
- Walsall (Band D £2,627.48)
- Warwick (Band D £2,461.55)
- Wolverhampton (Band D £2,538.99)
- Worcester (Band D £2,405.81)
- Wychavon (Band D £2,373.19)
- Wyre Forest (Band D £2,512.47)
East of England
- Babergh (Band D £2,341.55)
- Basildon (Band D £2,327.24)
- Bedford (Band D £2,471.74)
- Braintree (Band D £2,280.34)
- Breckland (Band D £2,443.67)
- Brentwood (Band D £2,258.14)
- Broadland (Band D £2,437.78)
- Broxbourne (Band D £2,306.43)
- Cambridge (Band D £2,467.02)
- Castle Point (Band D £2,318.63)
- Central Bedfordshire (Band D £2,516.16)
- Chelmsford (Band D £2,300.18)
- Colchester (Band D £2,282.85)
- Dacorum (Band D £2,408.51)
- East Cambridgeshire (Band D £2,485.18)
- East Hertfordshire (Band D £2,454.78)
- East Suffolk (Band D £2,334.80)
- Epping Forest (Band D £2,277.21)
- Fenland (Band D £2,537.74)
- Great Yarmouth (Band D £2,414.41)
- Harlow (Band D £2,298.69)
- Hertsmere (Band D £2,405.83)
- Huntingdonshire (Band D £2,556.40)
- Ipswich (Band D £2,468.25)
- King's Lynn & West Norfolk (Band D £2,430.13)
- Luton (Band D £2,439.93)
- Maldon (Band D £2,328.37)
- Mid Suffolk (Band D £2,316.88)
- North Hertfordshire (Band D £2,448.52)
- North Norfolk (Band D £2,459.93)
- Norwich (Band D £2,503.44)
- Peterborough (Band D £2,293.47)
- Rochford (Band D £2,363.48)
- South Cambridgeshire (Band D £2,536.25)
- South Norfolk (Band D £2,482.87)
- Southend-on-Sea (Band D £2,265.17)
- St Albans (Band D £2,419.22)
- Stevenage (Band D £2,391.97)
- Tendring (Band D £2,269.63)
- Three Rivers (Band D £2,422.31)
- Thurrock (Band D £2,254.68)
- Uttlesford (Band D £2,333.82)
- Watford (Band D £2,446.70)
- Welwyn Hatfield (Band D £2,452.26)
- West Suffolk (Band D £2,351.47)
London
- Barking & Dagenham (Band D £2,198.51)
- Barnet (Band D £2,132.60)
- Bexley (Band D £2,366.36)
- Brent (Band D £2,235.27)
- Bromley (Band D £2,140.04)
- Camden (Band D £2,207.55)
- City of London (Band D £1,329.56)
- Croydon (Band D £2,599.91)
- Ealing (Band D £2,138.53)
- Enfield (Band D £2,267.67)
- Greenwich (Band D £2,107.86)
- Hackney (Band D £2,060.30)
- Hammersmith & Fulham (Band D £1,519.51)
- Haringey (Band D £2,313.78)
- Harrow (Band D £2,511.07)
- Havering (Band D £2,424.66)
- Hillingdon (Band D £2,045.46)
- Hounslow (Band D £2,185.56)
- Islington (Band D £2,108.15)
- Kensington & Chelsea (Band D £1,666.65)
- Kingston upon Thames (Band D £2,609.20)
- Lambeth (Band D £2,047.11)
- Lewisham (Band D £2,237.33)
- Merton (Band D £2,146.76)
- Newham (Band D £1,944.23)
- Redbridge (Band D £2,294.58)
- Richmond upon Thames (Band D £2,486.10)
- Southwark (Band D £1,967.26)
- Sutton (Band D £2,378.64)
- Tower Hamlets (Band D £1,837.78)
- Waltham Forest (Band D £2,386.96)
- Wandsworth (Band D £1,028.21)
- Westminster (Band D £1,049.55)
South East
- Adur (Band D £2,548.28)
- Arun (Band D £2,487.24)
- Ashford (Band D £2,410.16)
- Basingstoke & Deane (Band D £2,255.21)
- Bracknell Forest (Band D £2,264.80)
- Brighton & Hove (Band D £2,580.54)
- Buckinghamshire (Band D £2,526.58)
- Canterbury (Band D £2,419.33)
- Cherwell (Band D £2,582.96)
- Chichester (Band D £2,469.68)
- Crawley (Band D £2,418.46)
- Dartford (Band D £2,375.15)
- Dover (Band D £2,461.74)
- East Hampshire (Band D £2,343.92)
- Eastbourne (Band D £2,654.28)
- Eastleigh (Band D £2,342.21)
- Elmbridge (Band D £2,557.75)
- Epsom & Ewell (Band D £2,530.84)
- Fareham (Band D £2,270.55)
- Folkestone & Hythe (Band D £2,538.75)
- Gosport (Band D £2,344.29)
- Gravesham (Band D £2,408.24)
- Guildford (Band D £2,547.30)
- Hart (Band D £2,400.02)
- Hastings (Band D £2,676.58)
- Havant (Band D £2,320.28)
- Horsham (Band D £2,441.01)
- Isle of Wight (Band D £2,625.79)
- Lewes (Band D £2,756.17)
- Maidstone (Band D £2,502.59)
- Medway (Band D £2,328.55)
- Mid Sussex (Band D £2,474.26)
- Milton Keynes (Band D £2,372.21)
- Mole Valley (Band D £2,519.86)
- New Forest (Band D £2,419.76)
- Oxford (Band D £2,678.40)
- Portsmouth (Band D £2,291.71)
- Reading (Band D £2,612.77)
- Reigate & Banstead (Band D £2,566.61)
- Rother (Band D £2,700.95)
- Runnymede (Band D £2,492.99)
- Rushmoor (Band D £2,320.28)
- Sevenoaks (Band D £2,522.36)
- Slough (Band D £2,414.44)
- South Oxfordshire (Band D £2,597.57)
- Southampton (Band D £2,381.48)
- Spelthorne (Band D £2,526.44)
- Surrey Heath (Band D £2,585.16)
- Swale (Band D £2,405.65)
- Tandridge (Band D £2,594.85)
- Test Valley (Band D £2,305.52)
- Thanet (Band D £2,490.90)
- Tonbridge & Malling (Band D £2,471.83)
- Tunbridge Wells (Band D £2,446.15)
- Vale of White Horse (Band D £2,577.44)
- Waverley (Band D £2,604.87)
- Wealden (Band D £2,728.43)
- West Berkshire (Band D £2,505.37)
- West Oxfordshire (Band D £2,566.95)
- Winchester (Band D £2,359.76)
- Windsor & Maidenhead (Band D £1,952.62)
- Woking (Band D £2,598.04)
- Wokingham (Band D £2,497.70)
- Worthing (Band D £2,456.13)
South West
- Bath & North East Somerset (Band D £2,383.42)
- Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole (Band D £2,435.58)
- Bristol (Band D £2,713.68)
- Cheltenham (Band D £2,369.52)
- Cornwall (Band D £2,590.93)
- Cotswold (Band D £2,391.65)
- Dorset (Band D £2,765.02)
- East Devon (Band D £2,595.46)
- Exeter (Band D £2,495.36)
- Forest of Dean (Band D £2,443.42)
- Gloucester (Band D £2,355.84)
- Isles of Scilly (Band D £2,047.96)
- Mid Devon (Band D £2,656.41)
- North Devon (Band D £2,642.21)
- North Somerset (Band D £2,491.22)
- Plymouth (Band D £2,441.85)
- Somerset (Band D £2,560.59)
- South Gloucestershire (Band D £2,550.59)
- South Hams (Band D £2,615.22)
- Stroud (Band D £2,491.36)
- Swindon (Band D £2,438.10)
- Teignbridge (Band D £2,643.12)
- Tewkesbury (Band D £2,340.53)
- Torbay (Band D £2,470.25)
- Torridge (Band D £2,601.42)
- West Devon (Band D £2,705.33)
- Wiltshire (Band D £2,571.78)
Wales
- Blaenau Gwent (Band D £2,531.26)
- Bridgend (Band D £2,477.99)
- Caerphilly (Band D £2,082.88)
- Cardiff (Band D £2,013.18)
- Carmarthenshire (Band D £2,351.20)
- Ceredigion (Band D £2,419.45)
- Conwy (Band D £2,472.82)
- Denbighshire (Band D £2,339.03)
- Flintshire (Band D £2,376.17)
- Gwynedd (Band D £2,468.77)
- Isle of Anglesey (Band D £2,260.73)
- Merthyr Tydfil (Band D £2,593.60)
- Monmouthshire (Band D £2,416.50)
- Neath Port Talbot (Band D £2,541.39)
- Newport (Band D £2,088.48)
- Pembrokeshire (Band D £2,166.15)
- Powys (Band D £2,351.72)
- Rhondda Cynon Taf (Band D £2,289.43)
- Swansea (Band D £2,238.29)
- Torfaen (Band D £2,155.68)
- Vale of Glamorgan (Band D £2,231.54)
- Wrexham (Band D £2,308.88)
Scotland
- Aberdeen City (Band D £1,747.54)
- Aberdeenshire (Band D £1,686.04)
- Angus (Band D £1,598.65)
- Argyll and Bute (Band D £1,783.33)
- City of Edinburgh (Band D £1,626.05)
- Clackmannanshire (Band D £1,683.67)
- Dumfries and Galloway (Band D £1,578.65)
- Dundee City (Band D £1,729.69)
- East Ayrshire (Band D £1,717.28)
- East Dunbartonshire (Band D £1,751.67)
- East Lothian (Band D £1,697.62)
- East Renfrewshire (Band D £1,620.15)
- Falkirk (Band D £1,715.09)
- Fife (Band D £1,573.70)
- Glasgow City (Band D £1,706.00)
- Highland (Band D £1,633.99)
- Inverclyde (Band D £1,673.85)
- Midlothian (Band D £1,816.16)
- Moray (Band D £1,731.14)
- Na h-Eileanan Siar (Band D £1,505.50)
- North Ayrshire (Band D £1,685.84)
- North Lanarkshire (Band D £1,554.56)
- Orkney Islands (Band D £1,669.07)
- Perth and Kinross (Band D £1,673.84)
- Renfrewshire (Band D £1,690.56)
- Scottish Borders (Band D £1,618.52)
- Shetland Islands (Band D £1,487.90)
- South Ayrshire (Band D £1,694.96)
- South Lanarkshire (Band D £1,468.47)
- Stirling (Band D £1,752.87)
- West Dunbartonshire (Band D £1,681.53)
- West Lothian (Band D £1,627.59)
Sources
- MHCLG: Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027
- VOA: Council Tax stock of properties 2025 (England and Wales dwellings by band)
- Welsh Government: Council Tax levels, April 2026 to March 2027
- Scottish Government: Council Tax datasets (charges and chargeable dwellings)
- VOA: Council Tax challenges and changes in England and Wales, year to March 2024
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