Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Luton council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,439.93 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,626.62; the dearest, H, pays £4,879.86. 33% of Luton’s 85,570 homes are in Band B.
Band D costs £2,439.93 a year: £243.99 over 10 payments or £203.33 over 12. 9% of Luton’s homes are in this band.
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G
H
Luton, 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 1%, Band G 0.3%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Luton
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,626.62
£162.66
£135.55
25%
£1,897.72
£189.77
£158.14
33%
£2,168.83
£216.88
£180.74
27%
£2,439.93
£243.99
£203.33
9%
£2,982.14
£298.21
£248.51
4%
£3,524.34
£352.43
£293.70
1%
£4,066.55
£406.66
£338.88
0.3%
£4,879.86
£487.99
£406.66
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 Luton’s figures
Luton is close to the centre of the English ranking. Its average Band D for 2026/27, £2,439.93, comes 151st of 296 and is only £28.96 above the simple mean for English councils. The increase on 2025/26 (£2,320.43) is £119.50, or 5.1%.
What stands out in the breakdown is fire. Luton's fire precept is £122.72 at Band D, 5.0% of the bill, and only four English council areas pay a higher one: Durham, Darlington, Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin. The police take £297.59, the borough council £2,019.62, which is 82.8% of Band D, and no parish precept is levied.
Housing is concentrated in the three lowest bands. Band B is the biggest single group with 28,110 properties, followed by C with 22,880 and A with 21,590, out of 85,570 in total. Average bills for those bands are £1,897.72 in B, £1,626.62 in A and £2,168.83 in C. Bands E to H hold a combined 4,970 properties, under 6%, and Band H only 30.
Luton is one of 57 English council areas where Band B is the largest group; Band A leads in 94 and Band C in 102. When it set the 2026/27 budget the council worked from 57,931.86 Band D equivalents, with a 96.5% collection assumption. The police and fire precepts add up to £420.31 of the Band D bill, of which the police precept, £297.59, is 12.2%.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Luton it is £2,439.93 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 145 of them charge less than Luton.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Luton’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 33%, is in Band B. Bands A to C together hold 85% of the 85,570 homes, and bands E to H hold 6%.
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.