Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Kirklees council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,441.07 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,627.38; the dearest, H, pays £4,882.14. 44% of Kirklees’ 193,930 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,441.07 a year: £244.11 over 10 payments or £203.42 over 12. 9% of Kirklees’ homes are in this band.
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Kirklees, 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 3%, Band G 1%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Kirklees
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,627.38
£162.74
£135.62
44%
£1,898.61
£189.86
£158.22
18%
£2,169.84
£216.98
£180.82
17%
£2,441.07
£244.11
£203.42
9%
£2,983.53
£298.35
£248.63
7%
£3,525.99
£352.60
£293.83
3%
£4,068.45
£406.85
£339.04
1%
£4,882.14
£488.21
£406.85
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 Kirklees’ figures
By number of homes Kirklees ranks among England's bigger council areas: 193,930 properties, a total only 13 English councils exceed. Measured instead in Band D equivalents, Kirklees's tax base of 129,790.04 is beaten by only 23 councils.
Those homes are heavily concentrated in the cheapest bands. Band A alone holds 86,030 homes, 44.4%, with Band B on 18.2% and Band C on 17.3%, so bands A and B together account for more than three Kirklees homes in five (62.6%). Band D, the band used to express the average bill, holds just 9.3%, and at the very top 170 Kirklees homes are in Band H, at £4,882.14 a year.
Kirklees has set Band D at £2,441.07, having added £119.31 since 2025/26. That 5.14% rise runs slightly ahead of the 4.78% that English councils averaged. Of that figure the council claims £2,062.42, of which £39.29 is this year's addition of adult social care precept; policing takes £278.28, fire £89.49, and five parishes £10.88 on average. Expressed as shares, the council's portion is 84.5% and policing plus fire together 15.1%.
Bradford, Calderdale, Leeds and Wakefield are charged the very same police and fire sums as Kirklees. Out of those five, Kirklees has the highest Band D, though only narrowly ahead of Calderdale at £2,420.15.
Kirklees's Band A charge, £1,627.38, is therefore the amount for the largest single group of homes, and Band B costs £1,898.61. The five parishes add only £10.88 on average, under 0.5% of Band D.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Kirklees it is £2,441.07 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 147 of them charge less than Kirklees.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Kirklees’ homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 44%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 80% of the 193,930 homes, and bands E to H hold 11%.
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.