Find out how much council tax you’ll pay in 2026/27 under newly-released figures
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Households in some of the poorest areas in England will continue to pay some of the highest levels of council tax on average, new official figures show.
Residents living in metropolitan areas, mostly concentrated in the North and the Midlands, will see annual bills for Band D properties – the standard measure of council tax – averaging £2,409 this year.
This compares to London boroughs, which include both wealthy and deprived areas, where the average will be £2,068.
Households in areas served by unitary councils, which also have mixed levels of prosperity, will pay Band D charges averaging £2,490, while those billed by county-wide councils are being charged £2,452.
Across England, the average Band D council tax in 2026/27 will be £2,392 – an increase of £111 or 4.9% on 2025-26, according to the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government.
It is the fourth year in a row that the England-wide increase has averaged around 5%.
Shadow communities secretary Sir James Cleverly said council tax rises were “cooked up in Whitehall”.
He added: “Keir Starmer promised to ease the cost of living and freeze council tax, yet families now face back-to-back hikes and a total council tax take rising by £2.6 million – another broken promise.
“Conservatives will always back hard-working people, delivering better services while keeping council tax down, while Labour, Lib Dems and Reform councils are pushing through the highest rises.”
Below is the full list of the average level of council tax for each local authority area in England for 2026/27.
Each section is arranged alphabetically and reads, from left to right: name of local authority; average total council tax for Band D property in 2026/27; (in brackets) average total council tax for Band D property in 2025/26; increase from 2025/26 to 2026/27.
The data has been published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and is based on the average for a Band D property.
The figures include, where appropriate, the adult social care levy, parish precepts and any additional charges that are included on council tax bills for police, fire and regional authorities.
Metropolitan boroughs
Barnsley £2,325.96 (£2,241.35) +£84.61
Birmingham £2,362.90 (£2,245.41) +£117.49
Bolton £2,399.74 (£2,266.53) +£133.21
Bradford £2,360.73 (£2,246.15) +£114.58
Bury £2,555.15 (£2,414.58) +£140.57
Calderdale £2,420.15 (£2,302.33) +£117.82
Coventry £2,516.72 (£2,413.68) +£103.04
Doncaster £2,167.75 (£2,110.50) +£57.25
Dudley £2,144.84 (£2,038.57) +£106.27
Gateshead £2,715.81 (£2,578.46) +£137.35
Kirklees £2,441.07 (£2,321.76) +£119.31
Knowsley £2,488.25 (£2,371.28) +£116.97
Leeds £2,283.73 (£2,172.39) +£111.34
Liverpool £2,673.59 (£2,546.45) +£127.14
Manchester £2,312.04 (£2,183.03) +£129.01
Newcastle upon Tyne £2,542.19 (£2413.15) +£129.04
North Tyneside £2,461.77 (£2,336.45) +£125.32
Oldham £2,602.23 (£2,459.40) +£142.83
Rochdale £2,600.83 (£2,458.09) +£142.74
Rotherham £2,381.53 (£2,283.26) +£98.27
Salford £2,594.45 (£2,452.02) +£142.43
Sandwell £2,244.46 (£2,133.45) +£111.01
Sefton £2,583.22 (£2,460.92) +£122.30
Sheffield £2,510.16 (£2,388.76) +£121.40
Solihull £2,197.26 (£2,087.81) +£109.45
South Tyneside £2,434.43 (£2,311.18) +£123.25
St Helens £2,403.38 (£2,288.53) +£114.85
Stockport £2,618.90 (£2,475.31) +£143.59
Sunderland £2,197.14 (£2,092.79) +£104.35
Tameside £2,447.21 (£2,311.80) +£135.41
Trafford £2,291.70 (£2,122.54) +£169.16
Wakefield £2,296.89 (£2,185.93) +£110.96
Walsall £2,627.48 (£2,498.27) +£129.21
Wigan £2,152.68 (£2,031.28) +£121.40
Wirral £2,500.59 (£2,381.66) +£118.93
Wolverhampton £2,538.99 (£2,413.98) +£125.01
London boroughs
Barking & Dagenham £2,198.51 (£2,098.14) +£100.37
Barnet £2,132.60 (£2,035.52) +£97.08
Bexley £2,366.36 (£2,258.03) +£108.33
Brent £2,235.27 (£2,133.15) +£102.12
Bromley £2,140.04 (£2,042.46) +£97.58
Camden £2,207.55 (£2,106.69) +£100.86
City of London £1,329.56 (£1,274.07) +£55.49
Croydon £2,599.91 (£2,480.48) +£119.43
Ealing £2,138.53 (£2,041.02) +£97.51
Enfield £2,267.67 (£2,164.02) +£103.65
Greenwich £2,107.86 (£2,011.81) +£96.05
Hackney £2,060.30 (£1,966.51) +£93.79
Hammersmith & Fulham £1,519.51 (£1,451.42) +£68.09
Haringey £2,313.78 (£2,207.94) +£105.84
Harrow £2,511.07 (£2,395.86) +£115.21
Havering £2,424.66 (£2,313.55) +£111.11
Hillingdon £2,045.46 (£1,952.38) +£93.08
Hounslow £2,185.56 (£2,085.82) +£99.74
Islington £2,108.15 (£2,012.10) +£96.05
Kensington & Chelsea £1,666.65 (£1,591.59) +£75.06
Kingston upon Thames £2,609.20 (£2,489.34) +£119.86
Lambeth £2,047.11 (£1,953.95) +£93.16
Lewisham £2,237.33 (£2,135.13) +£102.20
Merton £2,146.76 (£2,094.43) +£52.33
Newham £1,944.23 (£1,855.96) +£88.27
Redbridge £2,294.58 (£2,189.67) +£104.91
Richmond upon Thames £2,486.10 (£2,372.07) +£114.03
Southwark £1,967.26 (£1,877.90) +£89.36
Sutton £2,378.64 (£2,269.72) +£108.92
Tower Hamlets £1,837.78 (£1,754.57) +£83.21
Waltham Forest £2,386.96 (£2,277.65) +£109.31
Wandsworth £1,028.21 (£997.75) +£30.46
Westminster £1,049.55 (£1,019.00) +£30.55
Unitary authorities
Bath & North East Somerset £2,383.42 (£2,265.80) +£117.62
Bedford £2,471.74 (£2,350.94) +£120.80
Blackburn with Darwen £2,455.27 (£2,337.17) +£118.10
Blackpool £2,513.22 (£2,392.21) +£121.01
Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole £2,435.58 (£2,264.78) +£170.80
Bracknell Forest £2,264.80 (£2,155.21) +£109.59
Brighton & Hove £2,580.54 (£2,456.78) +£123.76
Bristol £2,713.68 (£2,583.89) +£129.79
Buckinghamshire £2,526.58 (£2,401.53) +£125.05
Central Bedfordshire £2,516.16 (£2,394.14) +£122.02
Cheshire East £2,454.87 (£2,332.61) +£122.26
Cheshire West & Chester £2,517.33 (£2,392.03) +£125.30
Cornwall £2,590.93 (£2,459.92) +£131.01
Cumberland £2,511.32 (£2,393.90) +£117.42
Darlington £2,493.83 (£2,371.60) +£122.23
Derby £2,306.00 (£2,195.75) +£110.25
Dorset £2,765.02 (£2,630.30) +£134.72
Durham £2,622.15 (£2,551.17) +£70.98
East Riding of Yorkshire £2,466.08 (£2,343.55) +£122.53
Halton £2,366.61 (£2,249.34) +£117.27
Hartlepool £2,560.20 (£2,498.53) +£61.67
Herefordshire £2,574.37 (£2,449.17) +£125.20
Isle of Wight £2,625.79 (£2,493.36) +£132.43
Isles of Scilly £2,047.96 (£1,950.03) +£97.93
Kingston upon Hull £2,295.04 (£2,182.52) +£112.52
Leicester £2,528.75 (£2,407.72) +£121.03
Luton £2,439.93 (£2,320.43) +£119.50
Medway £2,328.55 (£2,207.33) +£121.22
Middlesbrough £2,549.16 (£2,487.65) +£61.51
Milton Keynes £2,372.21 (£2,257.98) +£114.23
North East Lincolnshire £2,483.85 (£2,371.01) +£112.84
North Lincolnshire £2,348.46 (£2,238.09) +£110.37
North Northamptonshire £2,423.96 (£2,301.93) +£122.03
North Somerset £2,491.22 (£2,294.94) +£196.28
North Yorkshire £2,544.34 (£2,418.26) +£126.08
Northumberland £2,596.94 (£2,464.63) +£132.31
Nottingham £2,755.39 (£2,656.19) +£99.20
Peterborough £2,293.47 (£2,185.72) +£107.75
Plymouth £2,441.85 (£2,325.42) +£116.43
Portsmouth £2,291.71 (£2,180.92) +£110.79
Reading £2,612.77 (£2,487.11) +£125.66
Redcar & Cleveland £2,544.48 (£2,424.47) +£120.01
Rutland £2,737.58 (£2,671.01) +£66.57
Shropshire £2,528.18 (£2,318.80) +£209.38
Slough £2,414.44 (£2,298.55) +£115.89
Somerset £2,560.59 (£2,438.62) +£121.97
South Gloucestershire £2,550.59 (£2,427.90) +£122.69
Southampton £2,381.48 (£2,266.44) +£115.04
Southend-on-Sea £2,265.17 (£2,154.65) +£110.52
Stockton-on-Tees £2,589.83 (£2,468.74) +£121.09
Stoke-on-Trent £2,183.12 (£2,078.34) +£104.78
Swindon £2,438.10 (£2,317.63) +£120.47
Telford & Wrekin £2,256.26 (£2,146.19) +£110.07
Thurrock £2,254.68 (£2,145.06) +£109.62
Torbay £2,470.25 (£2,350.64) +£119.61
Warrington £2,447.61 (£2,281.40) +£166.21
West Berkshire £2,505.37 (£2,382.84) +£122.53
West Northamptonshire £2,486.66 (£2,362.51) +£124.15
Westmorland & Furness £2,507.99 (£2,389.00) +£118.99
Wiltshire £2,571.78 (£2,443.40) +£128.38
Windsor & Maidenhead £1,952.62 (£1,823.50) +£129.12
Wokingham £2,497.70 (£2,376.11) +£121.59
York £2,287.15 (£2,175.05) +£112.10
District and county councils
All figures include the amount of council tax levied by the county council in which the district council is located.
This is because residents in these areas receive a council tax bill that covers both the district and county charges, along with any additional precepts.
For example, the figures given for Adur include the council tax levied both by Adur district council and West Sussex county council.
Adur £2,548.28 (£2,432.50) +£115.78
Amber Valley £2,407.69 (£2,297.98) +£109.71
Arun £2,487.24 (£2,371.09) +£116.15
Ashfield £2,608.76 (£2,506.63) +£102.13
Ashford £2,410.16 (£2,311.19) +£98.97
Babergh £2,341.55 (£2,233.16) +£108.39
Basildon £2,327.24 (£2,244.63) +£82.61
Basingstoke & Deane £2,255.21 (£2,147.87) +£107.34
Bassetlaw £2,644.95 (£2,539.53) +£105.42
Blaby £2,490.22 (£2,406.77) +£83.45
Bolsover £2,559.41 (£2,447.51) +£111.90
Boston £2,308.73 (£2,236.62) +£72.11
Braintree £2,280.34 (£2,194.67) +£85.67
Breckland £2,443.67 (£2,328.59) +£115.08
Brentwood £2,258.14 (£2,166.72) +£91.42
Broadland £2,437.78 (£2,327.99) +£109.79
Bromsgrove £2,478.65 (£2,302.72) +£175.93
Broxbourne £2,306.43 (£2,198.11) +£108.32
Broxtowe £2,618.21 (£2,516.20) +£102.01
Burnley £2,549.42 (£2,455.83) +£93.59
Cambridge £2,467.02 (£2,355.41) +£111.61
Cannock Chase £2,375.83 (£2,282.30) +£93.53
Canterbury £2,419.33 (£2,321.73) +£97.60
Castle Point £2,318.63 (£2,227.21) +£91.42
Charnwood £2,405.64 (£2,327.50) +£78.14
Chelmsford £2,300.18 (£2,206.97) +£93.21
Cheltenham £2,369.52 (£2,258.28) +£111.24
Cherwell £2,582.96 (£2,463.87) +£119.09
Chesterfield £2,339.49 (£2,233.12) +£106.37
Chichester £2,469.68 (£2,346.40) +£123.28
Chorley £2,430.23 (£2,342.85) +£87.38
Colchester £2,282.85 (£2,192.08) +£90.77
Cotswold £2,391.65 (£2,276.70) +£114.95
Crawley £2,418.46 (£2,306.49) +£111.97
Dacorum £2,408.51 (£2,294.23) +£114.28
Dartford £2,375.15 (£2,280.55) +£94.60
Derbyshire Dales £2,444.70 (£2,332.42) +£112.28
Dover £2,461.74 (£2,364.45) +£97.29
East Cambridgeshire £2,485.18 (£2,374.13) +£111.05
East Devon £2,595.46 (£2,461.40) +£134.06
East Hampshire £2,343.92 (£2,231.64) +£112.28
East Hertfordshire £2,454.78 (£2,339.63) +£115.15
East Lindsey £2,275.88 (£2,201.57) +£74.31
East Staffordshire £2,351.34 (£2,257.48) +£93.86
East Suffolk £2,334.80 (£2,222.36) +£112.44
Eastbourne £2,654.28 (£2,532.49) +£121.79
Eastleigh £2,342.21 (£2,227.68) +£114.53
Elmbridge £2,557.75 (£2,442.92) +£114.83
Epping Forest £2,277.21 (£2,186.69) +£90.52
Epsom & Ewell £2,530.84 (£2,416.84) +£114.00
Erewash £2,360.64 (£2,260.06) +£100.58
Exeter £2,495.36 (£2,379.90) +£115.46
Fareham £2,270.55 (£2,164.55) +£106.00
Fenland £2,537.74 (£2,432.81) +£104.93
Folkestone & Hythe £2,538.75 (£2,437.35) +£101.40
Forest of Dean £2,443.42 (£2,326.88) +£116.54
Fylde £2,483.94 (£2,387.78) +£96.16
Gedling £2,609.55 (£2,507.09) +£102.46
Gloucester £2,355.84 (£2,246.16) +£109.68
Gosport £2,344.29 (£2,236.14) +£108.15
Gravesham £2,408.24 (£2,313.06) +£95.18
Great Yarmouth £2,414.41 (£2,305.13) +£109.28
Guildford £2,547.30 (£2,428.89) +£118.41
Harborough £2,389.87 (£2,324.96) +£64.91
Harlow £2,298.69 (£2,216.43) +£82.26
Hart £2,400.02 (£2,285.15) +£114.87
Hastings £2,676.58 (£2,554.14) +£122.44
Havant £2,320.28 (£2,212.89) +£107.39
Hertsmere £2,405.83 (£2,289.22) +£116.61
High Peak £2,384.66 (£2,275.52) +£109.14
Hinckley & Bosworth £2,382.62 (£2,304.14) +£78.48
Horsham £2,441.01 (£2,321.54) +£119.47
Huntingdonshire £2,556.40 (£2,439.67) +£116.73
Hyndburn £2,465.98 (£2,380.02) +£85.96
Ipswich £2,468.25 (£2,358.54) +£109.71
Kings Lynn & West Norfolk £2,430.13 (£2,318.63) +£111.50
Lancaster £2,503.19 (£2,407.50) +£95.69
Lewes £2,756.17 (£2,627.39) +£128.78
Lichfield £2,351.90 (£2,259.21) +£92.69
Lincoln £2,323.08 (£2,260.98) +£62.10
Maidstone £2,502.59 (£2,403.78) +£98.81
Maldon £2,328.37 (£2,232.83) +£95.54
Malvern Hills £2,450.92 (£2,280.82) +£170.10
Mansfield £2,600.38 (£2,498.40) +£101.98
Melton £2,429.67 (£2,350.68) +£78.99
Mid Devon £2,656.41 (£2,521.17) +£135.24
Mid Suffolk £2,316.88 (£2,208.43) +£108.45
Mid Sussex £2,474.26 (£2,356.49) +£117.77
Mole Valley £2,519.86 (£2,405.75) +£114.11
New Forest £2,419.76 (£2,303.37) +£116.39
Newark & Sherwood £2,682.10 (£2,582.22) +£99.88
Newcastle-under-Lyme £2,334.25 (£2,244.85) +£89.40
North Devon £2,642.21 (£2,514.66) +£127.55
North East Derbyshire £2,466.57 (£2,354.93) +£111.64
North Hertfordshire £2,448.52 (£2,332.61) +£115.91
North Kesteven £2,337.81 (£2,261.06) +£76.75
North Norfolk £2,459.93 (£2,341.13) +£118.80
North Warwickshire £2,532.10 (£2,431.78) +£100.32
North West Leicestershire £2,418.20 (£2,338.1) +£80.10
Norwich £2,503.44 (£2,391.59) +£111.85
Nuneaton & Bedworth £2,502.16 (£2,398.13) +£104.03
Oadby & Wigston £2,406.85 (£2,330.02) +£76.83
Oxford £2,678.40 (£2,557.13) +£121.27
Pendle £2,640.18 (£2,535.19) +£104.99
Preston £2,575.74 (£2,477.85) +£97.89
Redditch £2,462.95 (£2,289.33) +£173.62
Reigate & Banstead £2,566.61 (£2,459.20) +£107.41
Ribble Valley £2,386.50 (£2,299.58) +£86.92
Rochford £2,363.48 (£2,268.00) +£95.48
Rossendale £2,519.97 (£2,424.37) +£95.60
Rother £2,700.95 (£2,561.29) +£139.66
Rugby £2,483.05 (£2,378.04) +£105.01
Runnymede £2,492.99 (£2,380.06) +£112.93
Rushcliffe £2,643.27 (£2,531.50) +£111.77
Rushmoor £2,320.28 (£2,212.82) +£107.46
Sevenoaks £2,522.36 (£2,419.44) +£102.92
South Cambridgeshire £2,536.25 (£2,414.52) +£121.73
South Derbyshire £2,339.61 (£2,231.86) +£107.75
South Hams £2,615.22 (£2,491.75) +£123.47
South Holland £2,278.20 (£2,205.31) +£72.89
South Kesteven £2,260.00 (£2,186.95) +£73.05
South Norfolk £2,482.87 (£2,367.89) +£114.98
South Oxfordshire £2,597.57 (£2,474.44) +£123.13
South Ribble £2,442.66 (£2,352.12) +£90.54
South Staffordshire £2,313.67 (£2,219.66) +£94.01
Spelthorne £2,526.44 (£2,412.78) +£113.66
St Albans £2,419.22 (£2,305.95) +£113.27
Stafford £2,302.68 (£2,210.78) +£91.90
Staffordshire Moorlands £2,338.21 (£2,240.43) +£97.78
Stevenage £2,391.97 (£2,281.28) +£110.69
Stratford-on-Avon £2,484.17 (£2,379.91) +£104.26
Stroud £2,491.36 (£2,369.37) +£121.99
Surrey Heath £2,585.16 (£2,467.86) +£117.30
Swale £2,405.65 (£2,305.72) +£99.93
Tamworth £2,300.76 (£2,209.81) +£90.95
Tandridge £2,594.85 (£2,471.62) +£123.23
Teignbridge £2,643.12 (£2,512.83) +£130.29
Tendring £2,269.63 (£2,178.46) +£91.17
Test Valley £2,305.52 (£2,196.53) +£108.99
Tewkesbury £2,340.53 (£2,226.55) +£113.98
Thanet £2,490.90 (£2,391.23) +£99.67
Three Rivers £2,422.31 (£2,306.47) +£115.84
Tonbridge & Malling £2,471.83 (£2,374.77) +£97.06
Torridge £2,601.42 (£2,479.12) +£122.30
Tunbridge Wells £2,446.15 (£2,347.20) +£98.95
Uttlesford £2,333.82 (£2,237.45) +£96.37
Vale of White Horse £2,577.44 (£2,456.82) +£120.62
Warwick £2,461.55 (£2,356.53) +£105.02
Watford £2,446.70 (£2,343.38) +£103.32
Waverley £2,604.87 (£2,483.85) +£121.02
Wealden £2,728.43 (£2,608.44) +£119.99
Welwyn Hatfield £2,452.26 (£2,333.46) +£118.80
West Devon £2,705.33 (£2,574.29) +£131.04
West Lancashire £2,456.23 (£2,362.12) +£94.11
West Lindsey £2,354.25 (£2,279.77) +£74.48
West Oxfordshire £2,566.95 (£2,443.88) +£123.07
West Suffolk £2,351.47 (£2,243.00) +£108.47
Winchester £2,359.76 (£2,251.22) +£108.54
Woking £2,598.04 (£2,482.03) +£116.01
Worcester £2,405.81 (£2,233.93) +£171.88
Worthing £2,456.13 (£2,343.12) +£113.01
Wychavon £2,373.19 (£2,200.98) +£172.21
Wyre £2,460.53 (£2,365.73) +£94.80
Wyre Forest £2,512.47 (£2,327.49) +£184.98