Band C council tax 2026/27: from £913.96 to £2,457.80 a year

Councils where Band C is the most common band

Band C is the most common band in 113 of the 347 councils that publish the count of every band: Adur, Arun, Barking and Dagenham, Basildon, Basingstoke and Deane, Bath and North East Somerset, Bedford, Bexley, Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Bracknell Forest, Braintree, Brent, Brighton and Hove, Broadland, Bromsgrove, Buckinghamshire, Cambridge, Canterbury, Castle Point, Central Bedfordshire, Chelmsford, Cheltenham, Cherwell, Chichester, Conwy, Cotswold, Crawley, Croydon, Dacorum, Dartford, Denbighshire, Derbyshire Dales, Dorset, East Devon, East Hampshire, East Lothian, Eastleigh, Fareham, Flintshire, Folkestone and Hythe, Fylde, Gravesham, Greenwich, Hackney, Haringey, Harlow, Hart, Highland, Lambeth, Lewes, Lewisham, Lichfield, Maidstone, Maldon, Malvern Hills, Newham, Newport, North Hertfordshire, North Somerset, North Yorkshire, Oadby and Wigston, Oxford, Pembrokeshire, Powys, Reading, Ribble Valley, Rochford, Rother, Rugby, Rushcliffe, Rushmoor, Shetland Islands, Slough, Solihull, South Cambridgeshire, South Hams, South Oxfordshire, South Staffordshire, Southend-on-Sea, Stafford, Stevenage, Stratford-on-Avon, Stroud, Sutton, Swale, Tendring, Test Valley, Tewkesbury, Thurrock, Tonbridge and Malling, Tower Hamlets, Trafford, Tunbridge Wells, Uttlesford, Vale of Glamorgan, Vale of White Horse, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, Warwick, Watford, Wealden, Welwyn Hatfield, West Berkshire, West Northamptonshire, West Oxfordshire, Wiltshire, Winchester, Worthing, Wrexham, Wychavon, Wyre, Wyre Forest, York.

Where Band C 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 C, from the largest share down:

Barking and Dagenham 62%, Stevenage 56%, Harlow 48%, Crawley 48%, Slough 43%, Newham 42%, Reading 41%, Adur 40%, Thurrock 39%, Rushmoor 39%, Watford 37%, Greenwich 36%, Bracknell Forest 36%, Lewisham 36%, Waltham Forest 35%, Castle Point 35%, Broadland 35%, Cambridge 34%, Basingstoke and Deane 34%, Gravesham 34%, North Hertfordshire 34%, West Oxfordshire 33%, East Lothian 29%, Shetland Islands 25%, Midlothian 25%.

Scotland, the eight councils with the largest share of homes in Band C: East Lothian 29%, Shetland Islands 25%, Midlothian 25%, Glasgow City 23%, Orkney Islands 22%, Highland 20%, Argyll & Bute 19%, Na h-Eileanan Siar 19%.

Wales, the eight councils with the largest share of homes in Band C: Denbighshire 32%, Flintshire 29%, Wrexham 28%, Torfaen 28%, Conwy 27%, Newport 26%, Caerphilly 23%, Vale of Glamorgan 23%.