Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Greenwich council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,107.86 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,405.24; the dearest, H, pays £4,215.72. 36% of Greenwich’s 126,980 homes are in Band C.
Band D costs £2,107.86 a year: £210.79 over 10 payments or £175.66 over 12. 22% of Greenwich’s homes are in this band.
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B
C
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F
G
H
Greenwich, 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 G 2%, Band H 0.3% of homes.
Every band in Greenwich
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,405.24
£140.52
£117.10
8%
£1,639.45
£163.95
£136.62
18%
£1,873.65
£187.37
£156.14
36%
£2,107.86
£210.79
£175.66
22%
£2,576.27
£257.63
£214.69
10%
£3,044.69
£304.47
£253.72
3%
£3,513.10
£351.31
£292.76
2%
£4,215.72
£421.57
£351.31
0.3%
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 Greenwich’s figures
Greenwich is among the cheaper places in England for a Band D home. The 2026/27 charge is £2,107.86, and only 13 English councils ask for less. Within the capital the borough comes 22nd of the 32 boroughs, almost level with the simple London average of £2,113.85. Last year's figure was £2,011.81, so the bill has risen by £96.05, or 4.8%.
Police and fire are not separate lines on a London bill. Both sit inside the Greater London Authority precept, which is £510.51 in every borough and makes up 24.2% of Greenwich's Band D. The remaining £1,597.35 is set by the borough itself, and nothing is added for parishes.
The valuation list for Greenwich holds 126,980 homes, and Band C is clearly the biggest group: 46,280, or 36.4%. Band D follows at 21.8% and Band B at 17.7%, while the three top bands, F to H, account for 6,700 homes. A Band C property is charged £1,873.65 in 2026/27, and the 22,480 Band B homes pay £1,639.45; the far rarer Band H costs £4,215.72.
One line of the borough's return to government stands out. It plans on collecting 94.25% of the tax due, a rate that just 2 English councils undercut. Greenwich's tax base, stated in Band D equivalents, is 92,060.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Greenwich it is £2,107.86 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 13 of them charge less than Greenwich.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Greenwich’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 36%, is in Band C. Bands A to C together hold 63% of the 126,980 homes, and bands E to H hold 16%.
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.