Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Manchester council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,312.04 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,541.36; the dearest, H, pays £4,624.08. 54% of Manchester’s 257,700 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,312.04 a year: £231.20 over 10 payments or £192.67 over 12. 9% of Manchester’s homes are in this band.
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H
Manchester, 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 0.5%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Manchester
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,541.36
£154.14
£128.45
54%
£1,798.25
£179.83
£149.85
17%
£2,055.15
£205.52
£171.26
15%
£2,312.04
£231.20
£192.67
9%
£2,825.83
£282.58
£235.49
3%
£3,339.61
£333.96
£278.30
1%
£3,853.40
£385.34
£321.12
0.5%
£4,624.08
£462.41
£385.34
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 Manchester’s figures
Council tax in Manchester went up faster than in most of England this year. The average Band D bill for 2026/27 is £2,312.04, compared with £2,183.03 in 2025/26: £129.01 more, or 5.9%. Ranked by that percentage rise, Manchester comes 14th out of 296, while the simple average increase across English councils was 4.8%. Even so, the bill itself stays 4.1% below the simple average of English councils, £2,410.97.
The money is split three ways. The city council keeps £1,872.79, which is 81.0% of Band D. The police precept accounts for £285.30, or 12.3%, and a combined authority receives £153.95, a further 6.7%. Salford's bill carries exactly the same police and combined authority amounts, so any gap between the two cities lies in what each council sets for itself. Manchester has neither a county council line nor any parish precept in Table 10.
Band D says little about the usual Manchester home, though. More than half of the 257,700 properties on the valuation list, 138,930 in all (53.9%), sit in Band A, a proportion exceeded by only 19 English councils. Add Band B and the figure reaches 70.9%. At the other extreme, bands F, G and H between them contain just 5,020 homes.
A Band A home here pays £1,541.36 for the year, exactly two thirds of Band D, the fixed ratio used across England. Expressed in Band D equivalents, the city's tax base is 144,059, and the return assumes a collection rate of 97%.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Manchester it is £2,312.04 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 62 of them charge less than Manchester.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Manchester’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 54%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 86% of the 257,700 homes, and bands E to H hold 5%.
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.