Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Barnet council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,132.60 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,421.73; the dearest, H, pays £4,265.20. 25% of Barnet’s 162,960 homes are in Band D.
Band D costs £2,132.60 a year: £213.26 over 10 payments or £177.72 over 12. 25% of Barnet’s homes are in this band.
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A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Barnet, street by band. Walls rise to the yearly charge (one scale for all councils); each house is as wide as its band’s share of homes (all properties on the list at 31 March 2026, Valuation Office Agency). Narrow bands are kept visible.
Too narrow to draw to scale, so shown at a minimum width: Band A 2%, Band H 3% of homes.
Every band in Barnet
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,421.73
£142.17
£118.48
2%
£1,658.69
£165.87
£138.22
6%
£1,895.64
£189.56
£157.97
20%
£2,132.60
£213.26
£177.72
25%
£2,606.51
£260.65
£217.21
21%
£3,080.42
£308.04
£256.70
13%
£3,554.33
£355.43
£296.19
10%
£4,265.20
£426.52
£355.43
3%
These are averages for the whole council area, parish charges included: your own bill may be higher or lower depending on your parish. Monthly figures divide the yearly charge, rounded to the penny.
About Barnet’s figures
No London borough has a bigger tax base than Barnet. Converted into Band D equivalents, its housing comes to 159,296, which also makes it the 10th largest base in England. Behind that figure stand 162,960 homes on the valuation list, and a good number of them sit in the upper bands.
Bands G and H, the two dearest, contain 21,180 Barnet properties between them, 13.0% of the total. Band E, with 21.1%, even outnumbers Band C, with 20.4%, while Band D remains the single most common band at 24.9%. Owners in Band G are billed £3,554.33 for 2026/27 and those in Band H £4,265.20. At the opposite end only 3,450 homes sit in Band A, where the charge is £1,421.73.
The borough's Band D, £2,132.60, falls near the middle of the London range: 20th of the 32 boroughs, a fraction (0.9%) above their simple average of £2,113.85. Nationally it is 281st of 296. Twelve months earlier Band D stood at £2,035.52, so the step up is £97.08, or 4.8%.
Barnet itself sets £1,622.09 of the Band D figure (76.1%). The Greater London Authority claims £510.51 (23.9%), the same sum it takes from every borough; the Metropolitan Police and the fire brigade form part of that line rather than appearing separately. With no parishes in the borough, there is nothing else to add. The council's return builds in a collection rate of 97%.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Barnet it is £2,132.60 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 15 of them charge less than Barnet.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Barnet’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 25%, is in Band D. Bands A to C together hold 28% of the 162,960 homes, and bands E to H hold 47%.
Homes are counted as: all properties on the list at 31 March 2026, Valuation Office Agency.
Check your own band
The letter is printed on your council tax bill. To look up any home, use the official services: England and Wales or Scotland. Band by Band cannot tell you the band of an address.