Band B council tax 2026/27: from £799.72 to £2,150.57 a year

Councils where Band B is the most common band

Band B is the most common band in 79 of the 347 councils that publish the count of every band: Aberdeen City, Argyll & Bute, Ashford, Babergh, Blaby, Breckland, Bridgend, Bristol, Caerphilly, Cannock Chase, Carmarthenshire, Charnwood, Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, City of Edinburgh, Clackmannanshire, Colchester, Cornwall, Dover, Dumfries & Galloway, East Cambridgeshire, East Suffolk, Eastbourne, Exeter, Fife, Forest of Dean, Gedling, Glasgow City, Gosport, Gwynedd, Harborough, Havant, Herefordshire, High Peak, Hinckley and Bosworth, Huntingdonshire, Ipswich, Isle of Wight, Luton, Medway, Melton, Mid Devon, Mid Suffolk, Midlothian, Milton Keynes, Neath Port Talbot, North Devon, North Kesteven, North Norfolk, North Warwickshire, North West Leicestershire, Orkney Islands, Perth & Kinross, Portsmouth, Redditch, Renfrewshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Somerset, South Ayrshire, South Derbyshire, South Gloucestershire, South Norfolk, South Ribble, Southwark, Staffordshire Moorlands, Stirling, Swansea, Swindon, Tamworth, Teignbridge, Thanet, Torbay, Torfaen, West Devon, West Dunbartonshire, West Lothian, West Suffolk, Worcester.

Where Band B is at least 1.5 times as common as in its nation

25 councils, each compared with its own nation’s share of homes in Band B, from the largest share down:

Neath Port Talbot 41%, Ipswich 37%, West Dunbartonshire 36%, Bristol 36%, Tamworth 35%, Gosport 35%, Blaby 35%, Norwich 34%, West Suffolk 34%, Portsmouth 34%, Caerphilly 33%, Luton 33%, Sandwell 33%, Worcester 32%, Redditch 32%, Southampton 32%, Medway 32%, Cannock Chase 31%, Hinckley and Bosworth 31%, Melton 31%, Dover 31%, High Peak 30%, North West Leicestershire 30%, Waltham Forest 29%, Blackpool 29%.

Scotland, the eight councils with the largest share of homes in Band B: West Dunbartonshire 36%, Dumfries & Galloway 29%, Clackmannanshire 29%, West Lothian 29%, Renfrewshire 28%, Midlothian 28%, North Ayrshire 26%, Fife 26%.

Wales, the eight councils with the largest share of homes in Band B: Neath Port Talbot 41%, Caerphilly 33%, Torfaen 30%, Carmarthenshire 27%, Gwynedd 25%, Swansea 25%, Blaenau Gwent 25%, Merthyr Tydfil 24%.