Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Rochdale council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,600.83 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,733.89; the dearest, H, pays £5,201.66. 53% of Rochdale’s 98,520 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,600.83 a year: £260.08 over 10 payments or £216.74 over 12. 8% of Rochdale’s homes are in this band.
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Rochdale, 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 Rochdale
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,733.89
£173.39
£144.49
53%
£2,022.87
£202.29
£168.57
18%
£2,311.85
£231.19
£192.65
14%
£2,600.83
£260.08
£216.74
8%
£3,178.79
£317.88
£264.90
5%
£3,756.75
£375.68
£313.06
2%
£4,334.72
£433.47
£361.23
0.9%
£5,201.66
£520.17
£433.47
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 Rochdale’s figures
Rochdale is one of ten councils in England sharing the same two outside charges: £285.30 for policing and £153.95 for a combined authority. Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford and Wigan complete the list. Any difference between their Band D figures therefore traces back to local council and parish shares. Ranked within that group, Rochdale comes third, with only Stockport and Oldham charging more; Stockport, the highest, is £18.07 above Rochdale.
Its Band D for 2026/27 is £2,600.83. Rochdale's own council accounts for £2,161.58, or 83.1%, the police for 11.0% and the combined authority for 5.9%, so between them the two outside precepts claim about a sixth of the bill, £439.25. Table 10 lists no fire authority amount here and no parishes at all. Rochdale's council share carries £41.18 of new adult social care precept for 2026/27, an amount fifteen councils top.
Compared with 2025/26 the charge went up £142.74, a rise of 5.81%. Nineteen English councils raised theirs by a bigger percentage.
Look at where Rochdale's homes actually are, though, and Band D seems remote. Band A alone holds 51,970 of 98,520 properties, 52.8%, and with Band B the share reaches 70.5%. Only 8.5% of homes fall in Band D itself. At the top, Band H costs £5,201.66 and covers 50 properties.
In practice a Band A home in Rochdale is billed £1,733.89 this year, two thirds of the Band D amount, and that is the band of more than half the homes.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Rochdale it is £2,600.83 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 262 of them charge less than Rochdale.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Rochdale’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 53%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 84% of the 98,520 homes, and bands E to H hold 7%.
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.