Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Merton council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,146.76 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,431.17; the dearest, H, pays £4,293.52. 32% of Merton’s 87,890 homes are in Band D.
Band D costs £2,146.76 a year: £214.68 over 10 payments or £178.90 over 12. 32% of Merton’s homes are in this band.
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Merton, 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 A 1%, Band H 2% of homes.
Every band in Merton
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,431.17
£143.12
£119.26
1%
£1,669.70
£166.97
£139.14
10%
£1,908.23
£190.82
£159.02
28%
£2,146.76
£214.68
£178.90
32%
£2,623.82
£262.38
£218.65
15%
£3,100.88
£310.09
£258.41
7%
£3,577.93
£357.79
£298.16
5%
£4,293.52
£429.35
£357.79
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 Merton’s figures
Merton's Band D rose by just £52.33 for 2026/27, from £2,094.43 to £2,146.76. That 2.5% increase was the smallest of any London borough, and only three of the 296 English council areas recorded a lower percentage rise. In 29 of the other 31 boroughs, Band D went up by between 4.7% and 4.8%, so Merton stands apart from almost all of its London peers this year.
The smaller increase leaves Merton 17th of the 32 boroughs, close to the London median, and 277th in England. Each Band D bill splits into £1,636.25 for the borough and £510.51 for the Greater London Authority; the second sum includes the cost of the Metropolitan Police as well as London's fire brigade, and represents 23.8% of the total. Merton has no parish councils.
As for housing, Band D is the commonest band here, with 28,320 of 87,890 properties, or 32%. That is unusual: Band D is the largest group in only 39 of England's 296 council areas. It also means that the headline figure of £2,146.76 is the bill actually received by the biggest single group of Merton households. Very few homes fall into Band A, just 1,190, against 24,180 in Band C and 13,600 in Band E. Another 1,860 homes are valued in Band H, billed £4,293.52 on average, exactly double the Band D sum.
Merton budgets for 99% collection; its tax base, 80,770.1 when converted to Band D, falls a little short of the property count.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Merton it is £2,146.76 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 19 of them charge less than Merton.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Merton’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 32%, is in Band D. Bands A to C together hold 39% of the 87,890 homes, and bands E to H hold 29%.
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.