Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Birmingham council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,362.90 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,575.27; the dearest, H, pays £4,725.80. 35% of Birmingham’s 469,460 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,362.90 a year: £236.29 over 10 payments or £196.91 over 12. 10% of Birmingham’s homes are in this band.
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B
C
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G
H
Birmingham, 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 F 2%, Band G 1%, Band H 0.2% of homes.
Every band in Birmingham
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,575.27
£157.53
£131.27
35%
£1,837.81
£183.78
£153.15
28%
£2,100.36
£210.04
£175.03
18%
£2,362.90
£236.29
£196.91
10%
£2,887.99
£288.80
£240.67
5%
£3,413.08
£341.31
£284.42
2%
£3,938.17
£393.82
£328.18
1%
£4,725.80
£472.58
£393.82
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 Birmingham’s figures
Birmingham is the largest council in England by number of homes. Its valuation list holds 469,460 properties, and its tax base, 275,434 Band D equivalents, is also the biggest in England.
Most of those homes are in the cheaper bands. Band A alone has 165,250 (35.2%) and Band B 133,070 (28.3%), so the pair accounts for 63.5% of the city's housing. Band C adds 18.4%, Band D 9.6%. Only 930 homes are in Band H, the top of the scale, where the 2026/27 charge is £4,725.80, twice the Band D amount as everywhere in England.
Birmingham's Band D for 2026/27, averaged city-wide, is £2,362.90. That is 2.0% under the simple mean of £2,410.97 across English councils and 201st of 296. It has risen from £2,245.41 by £117.49, or 5.2%: the 39th steepest increase in England this year.
Four parts make up the bill. The city council takes £2,023.48 (85.6%). The police precept is £244.50 and the fire authority's is £85.19, the very same figures as in Coventry. Last, Birmingham's 2 parishes add an average of £9.73 citywide, small overall but enough that a bill inside a parish may differ slightly from the published average.
Band A households in Birmingham owe £1,575.27 for the year and Band B households £1,837.81. The council's return works on 97% of the tax being paid.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Birmingham it is £2,362.90 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 95 of them charge less than Birmingham.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Birmingham’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 35%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 82% of the 469,460 homes, and bands E to H hold 8%.
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.