North Lanarkshire council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £1,554.56 a year

The cheapest band, A, pays £1,036.37; the dearest, H, pays £3,808.67. 31% of North Lanarkshire’s 158,624 homes are in Band A.

Band D costs £1,554.56 a year: £155.46 over 10 payments or £129.55 over 12. 12% of North Lanarkshire’s homes are in this band.

North Lanarkshire, 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 (chargeable dwellings, September 2026, Scottish Government). Narrow bands are kept visible.

Too narrow to draw to scale, so shown at a minimum width: Band G 2%, Band H 0.1% of homes.

Every band in North Lanarkshire

A year	Over 10 payments	Over 12 payments	Homes
£1,036.37	£103.64	£86.36	31%
£1,209.10	£120.91	£100.76	23%
£1,381.83	£138.18	£115.15	13%
£1,554.56	£155.46	£129.55	12%
£2,042.52	£204.25	£170.21	11%
£2,526.16	£252.62	£210.51	7%
£3,044.35	£304.44	£253.70	2%
£3,808.67	£380.87	£317.39	0.1%

Water and sewerage charges are not included in these amounts. Homes are chargeable dwellings as the Scottish Government counts them, not the Valuation Office Agency count of properties used in England and Wales. Monthly figures divide the yearly charge, rounded to the penny.

About North Lanarkshire’s figures

North Lanarkshire's Band D for 2026/27 is £1,554.56, 29th of Scotland's 32 councils: only 3 set a lower figure. It is 6.5% below the simple Scottish average of £1,661.92.

The step up from 2025/26 was £101.70, from £1,452.86, or 7.0%; the simple average of the 32 councils rose by 7.7% over the same year. Measured over ten years, the increase is 41.6%, from £1,098.00 in 2016/17, when the council ranked 25th in Scotland. Over that decade, 7 councils have had a smaller rise.

The council area has 158,624 chargeable dwellings, as the Scottish Government counts them. Band A is the largest group, with 49,833 (31.4%), and Band B the second at 23.5%, so more than half of all dwellings are in the two lowest bands. Band C has 12.9%, Band D 11.8%, and Band H just 171 dwellings; bands E to H together take in 32,276.

In Scotland the gap between bands widens towards the top. Band H in North Lanarkshire costs £3,808.67, 2.45 times Band D, while Band A costs £1,036.37 and Band B £1,209.10. Charges for water and sewerage are not part of these figures, and the band of each address is held by the local assessor, whose lists the Scottish Assessors Association publishes online.

Source: Scottish Government, Council tax datasets, accessed 4 November 2026.

How North Lanarkshire’s Band D compares

Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In North Lanarkshire it is £1,554.56 a year. Across the 32 councils in Scotland the simple average of Band D is £1,661.92, and 3 of them charge less than North Lanarkshire.

The dearest Band D in Scotland is Midlothian at £1,816.16; the cheapest is South Lanarkshire at £1,468.47.

Where North Lanarkshire’s homes sit

The biggest share of homes, 31%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 68% of the 158,624 homes, and bands E to H hold 20%.

Homes are counted as: chargeable dwellings, September 2026, Scottish Government.

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.

Band D in every council