Cardiff council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,013.18 a year

The cheapest band, A, pays £1,342.12; the dearest, I, pays £4,697.42. 22% of Cardiff’s 168,160 homes are in Band D.

Band D costs £2,013.18 a year: £201.32 over 10 payments or £167.77 over 12. 22% of Cardiff’s homes are in this band.

Cardiff, 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 H 2%, Band I 0.9% of homes.

Every band in Cardiff

A year	Over 10 payments	Over 12 payments	Homes
£1,342.12	£134.21	£111.84	3%
£1,565.81	£156.58	£130.48	12%
£1,789.49	£178.95	£149.12	21%
£2,013.18	£201.32	£167.77	22%
£2,460.55	£246.06	£205.05	19%
£2,907.93	£290.79	£242.33	13%
£3,355.30	£335.53	£279.61	6%
£4,026.36	£402.64	£335.53	2%
£4,697.42	£469.74	£391.45	0.9%

Wales has an extra band, I, above band H. These amounts include an average of community council charges across the whole council area: your own bill may be higher or lower depending on your community. Monthly figures divide the yearly charge, rounded to the penny.

About Cardiff’s figures

No council in Wales sets a lower Band D than Cardiff. For 2026/27 it is £2,013.18, 13.5% below the simple average of the 22 Welsh councils, £2,326.14, and £87.00 above the £1,926.18 charged in 2025/26, an increase of 4.5%.

The bill is split three ways. The county council's own share is £1,603.72 (79.7%); community councils add £4.32 on average across the city; and the police precept takes £405.14, or 20.1% of the total, according to the StatsWales breakdown.

Over a decade the rise has been far larger. Band D stood at £1,270.23 in 2016/17, the 19th highest of the 22 Welsh councils at the time, and has since gone up by £742.95, or 58.5%. Across Wales the simple average of the 22 councils grew by 66.4% over the same years, from £1,398.29 to £2,326.14.

Cardiff's homes sit mostly in the middle of the scale. Band D is the most common band, with 37,830 of the 168,160 properties on the Valuation Office Agency list (22.5%), and bands D and E together hold 41.5%. Wales has a ninth band, I, above Band H: 1,490 homes in Cardiff are in it. At £4,697.42 a year, Cardiff's Band I is the lowest Band I in Wales; the highest is £6,051.73.

Source: Welsh Government (StatsWales), Composition of average band D council tax by billing authority, 2026-27, accessed 4 November 2026.

How Cardiff’s Band D compares

Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Cardiff it is £2,013.18 a year. Across the 22 councils in Wales the simple average of Band D is £2,326.14, and none of them charge less than Cardiff.

The dearest Band D in Wales is Merthyr Tydfil at £2,593.60; the cheapest is Cardiff at £2,013.18.

Where Cardiff’s homes sit

The biggest share of homes, 22%, is in Band D. Bands A to C together hold 36% of the 168,160 homes, and bands E to H hold 40%.

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