Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Blackpool council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,513.22 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,675.48; the dearest, H, pays £5,026.44. 44% of Blackpool’s 72,670 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,513.22 a year: £251.32 over 10 payments or £209.44 over 12. 7% of Blackpool’s homes are in this band.
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C
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F
G
H
Blackpool, 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 E 3%, Band F 0.8%, Band G 0.3%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Blackpool
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,675.48
£167.55
£139.62
44%
£1,954.73
£195.47
£162.89
29%
£2,233.97
£223.40
£186.16
16%
£2,513.22
£251.32
£209.44
7%
£3,071.71
£307.17
£255.98
3%
£3,630.21
£363.02
£302.52
0.8%
£4,188.70
£418.87
£349.06
0.3%
£5,026.44
£502.64
£418.87
under 0.1%
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 Blackpool’s figures
Blackpool's row in Table 10 has no county share to pass on, so almost everything stays local. The council keeps £2,126.09 of the £2,513.22 Band D, 84.6%, and only two outside bodies take a cut: policing, at £292.40, and fire, at £94.73. Blackburn with Darwen is charged those identical amounts. There are no parishes.
Blackpool's housing is tilted steeply toward the cheapest bands. Nearly three homes in four sit in Band A or Band B: 32,130 and 21,310 respectively, out of 72,670. Band C brings in 11,520 more, which lifts the three lowest bands to 89.4%, a level surpassed by only seven English councils. Band D itself accounts for 4,880 homes, under 7%, and the summit of the scale is almost deserted: 250 homes in G, 30 in H.
Read against that stock, the Band D charge is a reference point that few Blackpool addresses actually receive. Blackpool's Band A homes are billed £1,675.48 this year, its Band B homes £1,954.73.
The Band D figure did climb, by £121.01 (5.06%), and it now stands £102.25 higher than England's simple average. The adult social care precept Blackpool added for 2026/27, £40.46, is exceeded in 22 councils.
Between Band A and Band H, the yearly gap in Blackpool is £3,350.96, though with Band H holding only 30 homes, that upper figure concerns a handful of addresses. Blackburn with Darwen, despite identical police and fire amounts, ends with a Band D £57.95 below Blackpool's.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Blackpool it is £2,513.22 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 211 of them charge less than Blackpool.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Blackpool’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 44%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 89% of the 72,670 homes, and bands E to H hold 4%.
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.