Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Bromley council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,140.04 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,426.69; the dearest, H, pays £4,280.08. 25% of Bromley’s 143,860 homes are in Band D.
Band D costs £2,140.04 a year: £214.00 over 10 payments or £178.34 over 12. 25% of Bromley’s homes are in this band.
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A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Bromley, 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 A 1%, Band H 1% of homes.
Every band in Bromley
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,426.69
£142.67
£118.89
1%
£1,664.48
£166.45
£138.71
7%
£1,902.26
£190.23
£158.52
21%
£2,140.04
£214.00
£178.34
25%
£2,615.60
£261.56
£217.97
21%
£3,091.17
£309.12
£257.60
13%
£3,566.73
£356.67
£297.23
10%
£4,280.08
£428.01
£356.67
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 Bromley’s figures
Band A barely exists in Bromley. Just 1,930 of its 143,860 homes, 1.3%, are in it, the 14th smallest Band A share among 295 English councils with published figures. Housing is weighted instead towards the middle and upper bands: Band D is the commonest, with 25.4%, and bands C and E each account for more than a fifth of homes (21.2% and 20.6%). Bands G and H contain 15,930 properties between them.
Those upper bands cost £3,566.73 (Band G) and £4,280.08 (Band H) for 2026/27, against £2,615.60 for Band E. The Band D reference figure is £2,140.04.
Within the capital, Bromley comes 18th of 32 boroughs, 1.2% higher than their mean of £2,113.85. Set against all 296 English councils it ranks 279th, and it falls 11.2% short of their simple mean. The rise on 2025/26, when Band D was £2,042.46, is £97.58, or 4.8%.
Bromley's own element accounts for £1,629.53 (76.1%). The rest, £510.51 or 23.9%, is the precept of the Greater London Authority, inside which sit the Met Police and London's fire brigade; neither is listed as a line of its own, and no parishes add to the total. Bromley's base, in Band D equivalents, is 138,104, the 5th biggest in London, and the borough anticipates collecting 98%.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Bromley it is £2,140.04 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 17 of them charge less than Bromley.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Bromley’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 25%, is in Band D. Bands A to C together hold 30% of the 143,860 homes, and bands E to H hold 45%.
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.