Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Oldham council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,602.23 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,734.82; the dearest, H, pays £5,204.46. 51% of Oldham’s 99,570 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,602.23 a year: £260.22 over 10 payments or £216.85 over 12. 7% of Oldham’s homes are in this band.
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H
Oldham, 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 2%, Band G 0.9%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Oldham
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,734.82
£173.48
£144.57
51%
£2,023.96
£202.40
£168.66
18%
£2,313.09
£231.31
£192.76
17%
£2,602.23
£260.22
£216.85
7%
£3,180.50
£318.05
£265.04
4%
£3,758.78
£375.88
£313.23
2%
£4,337.05
£433.71
£361.42
0.9%
£5,204.46
£520.45
£433.71
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 Oldham’s figures
Oldham's Band D went up by £142.83 for 2026/27, to £2,602.23 from £2,459.40. That 5.8% increase was larger than in 277 of the 296 English council areas, and the new total is the 32nd highest in England.
One line on Oldham's bill appears in just 24 English council areas: a combined authority precept, set at £153.95 for Band D, or 5.9% of the total. Nine other councils show exactly that amount: Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan. No separate fire precept is listed for Oldham. Policing accounts for £285.30, a pair of parishes contribute £6.76 when averaged over the borough, and Oldham Council's own element, £2,156.22, is about 83% of the whole.
Just over half of Oldham's 99,570 properties, 51,240, fall in Band A, where the 2026/27 average bill is £1,734.82. Bands B and C are close in size, with 17,850 and 16,840, while Band H counts a mere 80. Five English councils, in fact, set a Band D lower than Oldham's Band A average.
Stockport, which shares both the police and the combined authority amounts, ends 2026/27 with a slightly higher Band D, £2,618.90, though its homes are far less concentrated in Band A. Among the ten councils paying the combined authority precept, Oldham's Band D comes second. Because so much of Oldham's stock sits in Band A, its base of 59,937.01 equivalent Band D homes amounts to roughly 0.6 per listed property. Collection is assumed at 97%.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Oldham it is £2,602.23 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 264 of them charge less than Oldham.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Oldham’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 51%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 86% of the 99,570 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.