City of Edinburgh council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £1,626.05 a year

The cheapest band, A, pays £1,084.03; the dearest, H, pays £3,983.82. 18% of City of Edinburgh’s 250,229 homes are in Band B.

Band D costs £1,626.05 a year: £162.61 over 10 payments or £135.50 over 12. 17% of City of Edinburgh’s homes are in this band.

City of Edinburgh, 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 (chargeable dwellings, September 2026, Scottish Government). Narrow bands are kept visible.

Too narrow to draw to scale, so shown at a minimum width: Band H 2% of homes.

Every band in City of Edinburgh

A year	Over 10 payments	Over 12 payments	Homes
£1,084.03	£108.40	£90.34	8%
£1,264.71	£126.47	£105.39	18%
£1,445.38	£144.54	£120.45	18%
£1,626.05	£162.61	£135.50	17%
£2,136.45	£213.65	£178.04	17%
£2,642.33	£264.23	£220.19	10%
£3,184.35	£318.44	£265.36	10%
£3,983.82	£398.38	£331.99	2%

Water and sewerage charges are not included in these amounts. Homes are chargeable dwellings as the Scottish Government counts them, not the Valuation Office Agency count of properties used in England and Wales. Monthly figures divide the yearly charge, rounded to the penny.

About City of Edinburgh’s figures

Edinburgh's Band D has risen more slowly than elsewhere in Scotland. For 2026/27 it is £1,626.05, up £62.54 or 4.0% on 2025/26, the smallest increase of the 32 councils. Over ten years, from £1,169.00 in 2016/17, the rise is 39.1%, the second smallest.

As a result the city has moved down the table. In 2016/17 it had the ninth highest Band D in Scotland; in 2026/27 it is 23rd of 32, £35.87 under the simple Scottish average. All these amounts exclude water and sewerage charges.

The city's 250,229 chargeable dwellings, the second largest total in Scotland, are spread across the bands. Band B is the largest group at 45,396, followed by Band C at 44,355, but bands E to H together hold 97,991, or 39%. Band H has 4,338 dwellings, charged £3,983.82 on average, and Band A only 20,580. Band D itself accounts for 41,907, and Band G for 24,066, each Band G dwelling being charged £3,184.35 on average.

A Band E dwelling pays £2,136.45 and a Band F dwelling £2,642.33 on average. Dwellings are counted as the Scottish Government counts chargeable dwellings, which is not the same measure as the Valuation Office Agency count used in England and Wales.

Source: Scottish Government, Council tax datasets, accessed 4 November 2026.

How City of Edinburgh’s Band D compares

Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In City of Edinburgh it is £1,626.05 a year. Across the 32 councils in Scotland the simple average of Band D is £1,661.92, and 9 of them charge less than City of Edinburgh.

The dearest Band D in Scotland is Midlothian at £1,816.16; the cheapest is South Lanarkshire at £1,468.47.

Where City of Edinburgh’s homes sit

The biggest share of homes, 18%, is in Band B. Bands A to C together hold 44% of the 250,229 homes, and bands E to H hold 39%.

Homes are counted as: chargeable dwellings, September 2026, Scottish Government.

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