Brent council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,235.27 a year

The cheapest band, A, pays £1,490.18; the dearest, H, pays £4,470.54. 31% of Brent’s 136,820 homes are in Band C.

Band D costs £2,235.27 a year: £223.53 over 10 payments or £186.27 over 12. 29% of Brent’s homes are in this band.

Brent, 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 Brent

A year	Over 10 payments	Over 12 payments	Homes
£1,490.18	£149.02	£124.18	5%
£1,738.54	£173.85	£144.88	10%
£1,986.91	£198.69	£165.58	31%
£2,235.27	£223.53	£186.27	29%
£2,732.00	£273.20	£227.67	17%
£3,228.72	£322.87	£269.06	5%
£3,725.45	£372.55	£310.45	3%
£4,470.54	£447.05	£372.55	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 Brent’s figures

In Brent, Band C is the most common band, with 42,610 properties, and Band D is close behind with 39,940. Together they cover 60% of the 136,820 properties listed for the borough. Band C homes there pay £1,986.91 on average in 2026/27, and Band A homes £1,490.18.

Band D itself costs £2,235.27, £102.12 up on last year, a rise of 4.8%. That makes Brent 13th of London's 32 boroughs by this measure, and 268th out of 296 across England, so 28 English areas ask less for a Band D home. In the London order Lewisham, at £2,237.33, sits just above Brent and Camden, at £2,207.55, just below.

Brent Council retains £1,724.76 from each Band D bill. The remaining £510.51, or 22.8%, is the Greater London Authority precept, inside which the Metropolitan Police and the London fire service are funded. Brent levies no parish precept.

Beyond the two middle bands, Band E is next with 23,740 homes, each paying £2,732.00 on average; Band B has 14,040 and Band A 6,180. Higher up, Band F bills average £3,228.72 and Band G bills £3,725.45, and the counts shrink quickly: 6,600 properties in F, 3,460 in G, and in H just 260, whose 2026/27 average is £4,470.54.

Converted into Band D equivalents, Brent's tax base of 110,475.24 ranks tenth of the 32 boroughs, and the council expects to collect 97% of the tax.

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (Table 10), accessed 4 November 2026.

How Brent’s Band D compares

Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Brent it is £2,235.27 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 28 of them charge less than Brent.

The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.

Where Brent’s homes sit

The biggest share of homes, 31%, is in Band C. Bands A to C together hold 46% of the 136,820 homes, and bands E to H hold 25%.

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.

Band D in every council