Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Hackney council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,060.30 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,373.53; the dearest, H, pays £4,120.60. 30% of Hackney’s 121,260 homes are in Band C.
Band D costs £2,060.30 a year: £206.03 over 10 payments or £171.69 over 12. 21% of Hackney’s homes are in this band.
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B
C
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G
H
Hackney, 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 1%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Hackney
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,373.53
£137.35
£114.46
7%
£1,602.46
£160.25
£133.54
26%
£1,831.38
£183.14
£152.62
30%
£2,060.30
£206.03
£171.69
21%
£2,518.14
£251.81
£209.85
11%
£2,975.99
£297.60
£248.00
4%
£3,433.83
£343.38
£286.15
1%
£4,120.60
£412.06
£343.38
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 Hackney’s figures
Hackney's council tax return contains one of England's lowest collection assumptions. The borough expects to collect 94.5% of the tax it levies; only 3 councils anywhere in England pencilled in less. Its tax base, 80,163 Band D equivalents, is the 29th largest of the 32 London boroughs, near the bottom of that list.
For 2026/27 the Band D charge is £2,060.30, up from £1,966.51. That adds £93.79 to the bill, a 4.8% rise. In London terms the borough is 23rd of 32, 2.5% under the boroughs' simple average; across the whole of England it comes 284th of 296.
Hackney's homes cluster in two bands. Bands B and C hold 67,870 of the 121,260 properties on the list, 56.0%, and Band C on its own reaches 29.8%. Very few homes are at the top: Band H has 60, Band G 1,330, and the three upper bands together barely reach 5.2% of the stock. Occupiers of Band B and Band C properties pay £1,602.46 and £1,831.38 this year, and the rare Band H homes £4,120.60.
Money from each Band D bill splits two ways. Hackney keeps £1,549.79 (75.2%). The Greater London Authority's £510.51 (24.8%) is the second part, and the capital's police service and fire brigade both come under that heading rather than being billed apart. The borough records no parishes, so no parish precept is averaged in.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Hackney it is £2,060.30 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 12 of them charge less than Hackney.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Hackney’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 30%, is in Band C. Bands A to C together hold 63% of the 121,260 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.