Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Medway council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,328.55 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,552.37; the dearest, H, pays £4,657.10. 32% of Medway’s 122,610 homes are in Band B.
Band D costs £2,328.55 a year: £232.86 over 10 payments or £194.05 over 12. 16% of Medway’s homes are in this band.
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C
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G
H
Medway, 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 G 1%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Medway
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,552.37
£155.24
£129.36
9%
£1,811.09
£181.11
£150.92
32%
£2,069.82
£206.98
£172.49
29%
£2,328.55
£232.86
£194.05
16%
£2,846.01
£284.60
£237.17
8%
£3,363.46
£336.35
£280.29
4%
£3,880.92
£388.09
£323.41
1%
£4,657.10
£465.71
£388.09
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 Medway’s figures
Band B is the largest group in Medway, with 38,960 properties, just ahead of Band C with 35,990. Between them they account for 61% of Medway's 122,610 homes, and their 2026/27 averages are £1,811.09 and £2,069.82. Band A is comparatively small at 11,540, fewer than Band D with 19,650, and Band E has 10,310 properties averaging £2,846.01.
Band D now stands at £2,328.55, £113.17 or 5.1% above the 2025/26 level of £2,215.38. That leaves Medway £82.42 short of the simple English mean, 223rd of 296. Its Band A average, £1,552.37, nonetheless tops the Band D bill of four English councils.
Medway Council's part of Band D comes to £1,934.33, or 83.1%. Police (£285.15, 12.2% of the bill) and fire (£99.81, 4.3%) make up most of the rest, and 11 parishes contribute an average of £9.26. Being an average over all of Medway, that parish figure may differ from what a household inside one of those parishes actually pays.
Towards the top, Medway counts 4,520 Band F properties, 1,590 Band G and 60 Band H. A Band F bill averages £3,363.46, a Band G bill £3,880.92 and a Band H bill £4,657.10.
Budgeting for 2026/27 used a base of 92,471.26 on the Band D scale, three quarters of the property count, and a 97% collection assumption.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Medway it is £2,328.55 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 73 of them charge less than Medway.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Medway’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 32%, is in Band B. Bands A to C together hold 71% of the 122,610 homes, and bands E to H hold 13%.
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.