Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Doncaster council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,167.75 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,445.17; the dearest, H, pays £4,335.50. 57% of Doncaster’s 145,790 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,167.75 a year: £216.78 over 10 payments or £180.65 over 12. 7% of Doncaster’s homes are in this band.
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Doncaster, 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 0.7%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Doncaster
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,445.17
£144.52
£120.43
57%
£1,686.03
£168.60
£140.50
19%
£1,926.89
£192.69
£160.57
11%
£2,167.75
£216.78
£180.65
7%
£2,649.47
£264.95
£220.79
3%
£3,131.19
£313.12
£260.93
2%
£3,612.92
£361.29
£301.08
0.7%
£4,335.50
£433.55
£361.29
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 Doncaster’s figures
Doncaster's average Band D went up by £57.25 for 2026/27, to £2,167.75. At 2.7%, that increase is one of the smallest in England: just four of the 296 council areas recorded a lower percentage rise, while the simple average across English councils was 4.8%. A year earlier Band D stood at £2,110.50.
Parishes are a feature of the borough. Table 10 counts 43 parishes here, 40 of them setting a precept, and those precepts, averaged over the borough, come to £42.80 at Band D, around 2% of the total; an individual household's parish charge can sit above or below it. The council itself takes £1,749.86, or 80.7%, while £280.04 goes to policing and £95.05 to fire, amounts shared with Barnsley, Rotherham and Sheffield.
With Band D £243.22 under the English simple average, Doncaster ranks 275th. Band A dominates its housing: 83,010 of 145,790 properties, 57%, at an average bill of £1,445.17. Just 14 English councils exceed Doncaster's proportion of Band A homes. Band B comes next with 27,500, billed £1,686.03 on average, and Band D holds 10,380.
So a typical Doncaster household pays a Band A bill well under the Band D average, in an area whose Band D is already among the lower ones in England. Within that group of four, Doncaster has the lowest Band D; Sheffield, at £2,510.16, has the highest. Collection is budgeted at 99%.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Doncaster it is £2,167.75 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 21 of them charge less than Doncaster.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Doncaster’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 57%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 87% of the 145,790 homes, and bands E to H hold 6%.
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.