Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Plymouth council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,441.85 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,627.90; the dearest, H, pays £4,883.70. 39% of Plymouth’s 123,450 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,441.85 a year: £244.19 over 10 payments or £203.49 over 12. 8% of Plymouth’s homes are in this band.
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G
H
Plymouth, 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 0.5%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Plymouth
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,627.90
£162.79
£135.66
39%
£1,899.22
£189.92
£158.27
27%
£2,170.53
£217.05
£180.88
19%
£2,441.85
£244.19
£203.49
8%
£2,984.48
£298.45
£248.71
4%
£3,527.12
£352.71
£293.93
2%
£4,069.75
£406.98
£339.15
0.5%
£4,883.70
£488.37
£406.98
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 Plymouth’s figures
Plymouth has no parishes at all in Table 10, so its £2,441.85 at Band D is one area-wide amount rather than a blend of parish rates. Out of it, the council retains £2,028.97, roughly 83p in each pound, a portion that contains £38.65 of adult social care precept levied on top this year. Plymouth's police receive £303.20, its fire authority £109.68.
Torbay pays those same two outside sums to the penny, yet Torbay's Band D comes out £28.40 dearer, at £2,470.25; with police and fire identical, the whole difference lies in council and parish shares. Plymouth's fire figure, for its part, beats that of 161 among the 185 councils listing fire separately.
Housing in Plymouth leans firmly to the cheap end. Some 48,140 homes, close to two in five, belong to Band A, which costs £1,627.90 for 2026/27, a third less than Band D. A further 33,440 belong to Band B, so the two lowest bands between them hold two thirds of the 123,450 total. Band C adds roughly a fifth (19.2%). Band D, the reference for every comparison, accounts for barely one home in twelve (8.4%), and Band A homes outnumber Band D homes more than four to one. Higher still, bands F, G and H muster only 2,580 properties between them.
Compared with the previous year, Plymouth's Band D has gone up £116.43, about 5.0%, which leaves it £30.88 over England's simple average. Band B, Plymouth's second biggest group, is billed £1,899.22.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Plymouth it is £2,441.85 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 148 of them charge less than Plymouth.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Plymouth’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 39%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 85% of the 123,450 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.