Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Basildon council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,327.24 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,551.49; the dearest, H, pays £4,654.48. 31% of Basildon’s 80,600 homes are in Band C.
Band D costs £2,327.24 a year: £232.72 over 10 payments or £193.94 over 12. 19% of Basildon’s homes are in this band.
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Basildon, 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 G 3%, Band H 0.2% of homes.
Every band in Basildon
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,551.49
£155.15
£129.29
11%
£1,810.08
£181.01
£150.84
20%
£2,068.66
£206.87
£172.39
31%
£2,327.24
£232.72
£193.94
19%
£2,844.40
£284.44
£237.03
10%
£3,361.57
£336.16
£280.13
6%
£3,878.73
£387.87
£323.23
3%
£4,654.48
£465.45
£387.87
0.2%
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 Basildon’s figures
Basildon's own council writes only a small part of its residents' bill. At Band D the total is £2,327.24, and the county council claims £1,641.96 of it, 70.6%, against £304.56 for Basildon itself, 13.1%. Policing adds £275.31, fire £92.52, while nine parishes contribute, on average, £12.89.
Only 13 of the 263 English councils with a police line show a lower police figure than Basildon, and 13 others share its £275.31 exactly. The same county, police and fire sums recur in eleven other councils, and ranked by Band D Basildon is fourth of the twelve, after Rochford, Uttlesford and Maldon.
This year's increase was one of the gentlest anywhere in England: £82.61 on the £2,244.63 of 2025/26, or 3.68%. Only 23 councils kept their percentage rise lower.
Band C is where Basildon's housing is thickest, with 24,950 of 80,600 properties, 31.0%. Bands A and B share 31.6% between them and Band D holds 18.6%; the four top bands carry 18.9%. In Band H there are 200 homes, billed at £4,654.48, roughly three times the £1,551.49 asked of Band A.
Seen from the county's side, Basildon is one of twelve councils whose households hand over the identical £1,641.96 at Band D as county share. A Basildon home and one in Rochford or Maldon therefore carry the same county sum at Band D; what differs is the local council and parish portion, which in Basildon totals £317.45. Basildon's police and fire precepts sum to £367.83, which is 15.8% of Band D.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Basildon it is £2,327.24 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 71 of them charge less than Basildon.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Basildon’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 31%, is in Band C. Bands A to C together hold 63% of the 80,600 homes, and bands E to H hold 19%.
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.