Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Derby council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,306.00 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,537.33; the dearest, H, pays £4,612.00. 51% of Derby’s 115,800 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,306.00 a year: £230.60 over 10 payments or £192.17 over 12. 8% of Derby’s homes are in this band.
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H
Derby, 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 0.6%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Derby
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,537.33
£153.73
£128.11
51%
£1,793.56
£179.36
£149.46
19%
£2,049.78
£204.98
£170.82
15%
£2,306.00
£230.60
£192.17
8%
£2,818.44
£281.84
£234.87
4%
£3,330.89
£333.09
£277.57
2%
£3,843.33
£384.33
£320.28
0.6%
£4,612.00
£461.20
£384.33
under 0.1%
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 Derby’s figures
Derby's Band D for 2026/27 is £2,306.00, an increase of £110.25, or 5.0%, on £2,195.75. Of that sum, £308.60 is the police precept, 13.4% of the bill. Exactly the same police amount is charged in Amber Valley, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, Erewash, High Peak, North East Derbyshire and South Derbyshire, which also share Derby's fire precept of £98.41.
With no parishes in the city, what is left for Derby City Council itself is £1,898.99, or 82.3%. Police and fire combined account for £407.01, about 17.7% of Band D. The total ranks 237th of the 296 English areas, £104.97 under their simple average, so 59 areas charge less at Band D.
Half the city's properties, 58,950 of 115,800, are valued in Band A, which costs £1,537.33 on average this year, a sum that four English councils undercut even at Band D. Band B has 22,470 and Band C 17,400, so the band used for national comparisons, D, applies to just 8,950 homes, under 8% of the list. At the top, 60 properties are in Band H and pay £4,612.00, exactly twice the Band D figure.
For the nine areas sharing those police and fire amounts, the remaining gap in their bills comes from the council and any parish or county precepts. Amber Valley, which shares both precepts, ends up with a higher Band D, £2,407.69, because a county council and parish precepts are added there. Derby's budget is built on 73,825.71 Band D equivalents and a 98% collection forecast.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Derby it is £2,306.00 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 59 of them charge less than Derby.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Derby’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 51%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 85% of the 115,800 homes, and bands E to H hold 7%.
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.