Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Peterborough council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,293.47 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,528.98; the dearest, H, pays £4,586.94. 39% of Peterborough’s 92,630 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,293.47 a year: £229.35 over 10 payments or £191.12 over 12. 10% of Peterborough’s homes are in this band.
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Peterborough, 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 1%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Peterborough
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,528.98
£152.90
£127.42
39%
£1,783.81
£178.38
£148.65
25%
£2,038.64
£203.86
£169.89
17%
£2,293.47
£229.35
£191.12
10%
£2,803.13
£280.31
£233.59
5%
£3,312.79
£331.28
£276.07
2%
£3,822.45
£382.25
£318.54
1%
£4,586.94
£458.69
£382.25
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 Peterborough’s figures
Fifty English councils charge less than Peterborough at Band D. Its £2,293.47 for 2026/27 leaves it £117.50 short of the 296-council simple average. The rise from the previous year, £107.75 or 4.93%, ran close to the 4.78% average increase.
Five contributors appear in Peterborough's row of Table 10. The council keeps £1,836.72, 80.1%, of which £34.99 is the 2026/27 increment of adult social care precept. Its police precept of £314.37 tops that of 200 of the 263 councils with a police line; the fire authority adds £92.16 and the combined authority's line is £36.00. Bodies other than the council and its parishes thus account for £442.53 together, almost a fifth of Band D at 19.3%.
Peterborough has twenty-nine parishes, whose precepts average £14.22. Since the band amounts are area-wide averages, a household in one parish can pay slightly more or less than one in another.
Peterborough's homes crowd into the lowest bands. Band A alone takes in 36,030 of Peterborough's 92,630 properties, close to two in five, at a charge of £1,528.98; Band B has 23,050, or 24.9%. Band C takes 17.2% and Band D 10.1%. Beyond Band D the numbers shrink to 8.9% for the upper four bands combined, with 80 homes reaching Band H.
Of the £442.53 that goes outside the council, policing alone represents £314.37, about seven pounds in every ten. The combined authority's £36.00 is the smallest of the outside charges. At the top, those 80 Band H homes are billed £4,586.94.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Peterborough it is £2,293.47 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 50 of them charge less than Peterborough.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Peterborough’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 39%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 81% of the 92,630 homes, and bands E to H hold 9%.
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.