Bury council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,555.15 a year

The cheapest band, A, pays £1,703.43; the dearest, H, pays £5,110.30. 36% of Bury’s 85,660 homes are in Band A.

Band D costs £2,555.15 a year: £255.52 over 10 payments or £212.93 over 12. 11% of Bury’s homes are in this band.

Bury, 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 2%, Band G 2%, Band H 0.2% of homes.

Every band in Bury

A year	Over 10 payments	Over 12 payments	Homes
£1,703.43	£170.34	£141.95	36%
£1,987.34	£198.73	£165.61	22%
£2,271.24	£227.12	£189.27	21%
£2,555.15	£255.52	£212.93	11%
£3,122.96	£312.30	£260.25	7%
£3,690.77	£369.08	£307.56	2%
£4,258.58	£425.86	£354.88	2%
£5,110.30	£511.03	£425.86	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 Bury’s figures

Bury's Band D contains no parish money, because Table 10 lists no parishes there, and the £2,555.15 total for 2026/27 boils down to three amounts. The council sets £2,115.90, 82.8%, with £40.31 of fresh adult social care precept for 2026/27, a figure 25 councils exceed. Two outside charges complete it, £285.30 for the police and £153.95 for a combined authority; nine other councils pay both to the penny, and Bury ranks fifth of those ten.

Measured against last year's £2,414.58, the rise is £140.57, or 5.82%, steeper than in all but sixteen English councils. In cash terms Bury now holds 60th place of 296 for Band D, £144.18 above their simple average.

Bury's housing descends like a staircase. Over a third of Bury's 85,660 homes, 30,770, sit on the bottom step in Band A; the next two steps, B and C, carry 18,780 and 17,610. Band D has 11.0%, and from there the steps shorten fast: Band E has 5,720 homes, F 1,900, G 1,320, and the top step, H, just 180.

The fixed ratios between bands show clearly in Bury's figures. A Band A home is charged £1,703.43, precisely two thirds of Band D, while Band H, at £5,110.30, is exactly double it.

Stockport, at the head of that group of ten, charges £63.75 more than Bury at Band D, and Wigan, at its foot, £402.47 less; the whole spread comes from what each council and its parishes add. Over the usual ten monthly payments, Bury's increase of £140.57 means about £14.06 more each month.

Source: Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 10 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), accessed 4 November 2026.

How Bury’s Band D compares

Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Bury it is £2,555.15 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 236 of them charge less than Bury.

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

Where Bury’s homes sit

The biggest share of homes, 36%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 78% of the 85,660 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.

Band D in every council