Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Islington council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,108.15 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,405.43; the dearest, H, pays £4,216.30. 30% of Islington’s 112,480 homes are in Band D.
Band D costs £2,108.15 a year: £210.82 over 10 payments or £175.68 over 12. 30% of Islington’s homes are in this band.
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Islington, 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 H 0.9% of homes.
Every band in Islington
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,405.43
£140.54
£117.12
4%
£1,639.67
£163.97
£136.64
5%
£1,873.91
£187.39
£156.16
26%
£2,108.15
£210.82
£175.68
30%
£2,576.63
£257.66
£214.72
17%
£3,045.11
£304.51
£253.76
9%
£3,513.58
£351.36
£292.80
7%
£4,216.30
£421.63
£351.36
0.9%
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 Islington’s figures
Only 14 English councils undercut Islington's Band D, which stands at £2,108.15 after rising £96.05 (4.77%) on the previous year.
The council keeps £1,597.64, three quarters of the total at 75.8%, and the GLA's £510.51 accounts for the remaining 24.2%. Metropolitan Police and London fire service costs are met from that GLA slice, which is why Islington bills show no line for either. Ranked among the 32 councils sharing the GLA figure, Islington stands 21st from the dearest, and no parishes appear.
Islington is one of the few places where Band D is not merely a benchmark but the band holding more homes than any other: 33,580 of the 112,480 listed, close to three in ten. Only ten English councils have a bigger proportion of homes in Band D. Band C is runner-up with 26.4%, so bands C and D between them account for 56.3% of Islington's housing, and the charges of £1,873.91 and £2,108.15 apply to more than half its households.
The cheap end is thin. Bands A and B together cover just 9.6% of homes; Band A, priced at £1,405.43, takes in 4,650. The upper end is fuller: bands E to H make up 34.1%, and Band H, billed at £4,216.30, includes 960 properties.
Stepping from Band C to Band D in Islington adds £234.24 a year, and from Band D to Band E another £468.48. The adult social care precept Islington added this year comes to £30.43.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Islington it is £2,108.15 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 14 of them charge less than Islington.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Islington’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 30%, is in Band D. Bands A to C together hold 36% of the 112,480 homes, and bands E to H hold 34%.
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.