Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Bradford council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,360.73 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,573.82; the dearest, H, pays £4,721.46. 41% of Bradford’s 225,210 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,360.73 a year: £236.07 over 10 payments or £196.73 over 12. 9% of Bradford’s homes are in this band.
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H
Bradford, 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 3%, Band G 2%, Band H 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Bradford
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,573.82
£157.38
£131.15
41%
£1,836.12
£183.61
£153.01
21%
£2,098.43
£209.84
£174.87
19%
£2,360.73
£236.07
£196.73
9%
£2,885.34
£288.53
£240.45
6%
£3,409.94
£340.99
£284.16
3%
£3,934.55
£393.46
£327.88
2%
£4,721.46
£472.15
£393.46
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 Bradford’s figures
For 2026/27 Bradford's average Band D comes to £2,360.73. That is 2.1% short of the simple mean of English councils, £2,410.97, and leaves the area 202nd out of 296 councils. Compared with the £2,246.15 charged in 2025/26, homes in Band D face £114.58 more, a rise of 5.1%.
Parishes form part of the local picture. Table 10 lists 21 parishes inside Bradford's boundary, and once their precepts are spread across the whole area they add £27.68 on average to Band D, or 1.2%. Since the published figure blends all of this into one number, an individual parish bill can land slightly above or below it. The remainder divides between the council's own £1,965.28, the police at £278.28 and the fire authority at £89.49.
Housing here is weighted heavily towards the cheaper bands. 92,940 of 225,210 homes, 41.3%, are in Band A; Band B accounts for 20.9% and Band C for 18.7%, so the first three bands together take in 80.9%. A Band A household pays £1,573.82 this year, Band B £1,836.12, Band C £2,098.43. At the top end, bands F to H hold 10,480 homes, and Band H is charged £4,721.46.
Measured in Band D equivalents, Bradford's tax base is 148,486, which puts it 15th in England by size, and the council expects to collect 98% of what it bills.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Bradford it is £2,360.73 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 94 of them charge less than Bradford.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Bradford’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 41%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 81% of the 225,210 homes, and bands E to H hold 11%.
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.