Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Brighton and Hove council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,580.54 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,720.36; the dearest, H, pays £5,161.08. 26% of Brighton and Hove’s 136,830 homes are in Band C.
Band D costs £2,580.54 a year: £258.05 over 10 payments or £215.05 over 12. 15% of Brighton and Hove’s homes are in this band.
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Brighton and Hove, 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 2%, Band H 0.2% of homes.
Every band in Brighton and Hove
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,720.36
£172.04
£143.36
22%
£2,007.09
£200.71
£167.26
22%
£2,293.81
£229.38
£191.15
26%
£2,580.54
£258.05
£215.05
15%
£3,153.99
£315.40
£262.83
9%
£3,727.45
£372.75
£310.62
4%
£4,300.90
£430.09
£358.41
2%
£5,161.08
£516.11
£430.09
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 Brighton and Hove’s figures
A Band D home in Brighton and Hove costs £2,580.54 in council tax for 2026/27, which is 7.0% more than the average English council and puts the city 48th of 296. Last year the same band cost £2,456.78; the difference is £123.76, or 5.0%.
Four separate amounts are stacked inside that figure. The city council's element is £2,180.42 (84.5%). Policing takes £281.91 (10.9%), and the fire authority £117.49 (4.6%). The fourth amount is tiny: Brighton and Hove has 1 parish, and its precept, averaged over all homes in the city, comes to £0.72.
No single band dominates the city's housing. Bands A, B and C hold 70.4% of the 136,830 properties between them, with Band C the biggest of the three at 35,630 homes (26.0%), Band B at 22.4% and Band A at 21.9%. Band D takes 15.2%, while the four highest bands, E to H, hold 19,650 homes, or 14.4%.
For the three most frequent bands the 2026/27 charges are £1,720.36 (Band A), £2,007.09 (Band B) and £2,293.81 (Band C). A Band H property, the most expensive category, pays £5,161.08. Even the city's cheapest band outstrips the Band D charged by 5 councils in England.
Brighton and Hove, 44th in England by number of homes, counts 96,316 Band D equivalents in its return and expects 98.75% of its bills to be met; 78 English councils set their sights higher.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Brighton and Hove it is £2,580.54 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 248 of them charge less than Brighton and Hove.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Brighton and Hove’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 26%, is in Band C. Bands A to C together hold 70% of the 136,830 homes, and bands E to H hold 14%.
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.