Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Leeds council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,283.73 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,522.49; the dearest, H, pays £4,567.46. 38% of Leeds’ 380,760 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,283.73 a year: £228.37 over 10 payments or £190.31 over 12. 10% of Leeds’ homes are in this band.
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B
C
D
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G
H
Leeds, 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 2%, Band H 0.2% of homes.
Every band in Leeds
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,522.49
£152.25
£126.87
38%
£1,776.23
£177.62
£148.02
21%
£2,029.98
£203.00
£169.17
20%
£2,283.73
£228.37
£190.31
10%
£2,791.23
£279.12
£232.60
6%
£3,298.72
£329.87
£274.89
3%
£3,806.22
£380.62
£317.19
2%
£4,567.46
£456.75
£380.62
0.2%
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 Leeds’ figures
Leeds is among the largest council tax areas in England. Its tax base for 2026/27 stands at 249,430.51 Band D equivalents, exceeded only by Birmingham and North Yorkshire, and there are 380,760 properties on the valuation list.
The average Band D charge is £2,283.73. That is £111.34, or 5.1%, more than in 2025/26 and places Leeds 250th of the 296 English areas, £127.24 below their simple average. Most households pay less than the Band D figure anyway: 144,040 properties (38%) are in Band A, at an average of £1,522.49, and another 81,090 in Band B, at £1,776.23. Band C, with 74,410 properties, averages £2,029.98. Only 760 properties are in Band H. Between Band A and Band D the difference is £761.24 a year.
The Band D total is made up of £1,903.74 for Leeds City Council, £278.28 for the police, £89.49 for fire and £12.22 for parish councils. The parish sum is spread across the whole city in the statistics, though Leeds has 33 parishes and the precept a household pays depends on which parish it is in. Of all the parts, the city council's is by far the largest, at 83.4%.
Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees and Wakefield carry the same police and fire figures, and of those five areas Leeds has the lowest Band D, so differences between those places and Leeds arise from the council and parish parts. Collection is assumed at 98.5% across the city.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Leeds it is £2,283.73 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 46 of them charge less than Leeds.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Leeds’ homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 38%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 79% of the 380,760 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.