Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Rotherham council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,381.53 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,587.69; the dearest, H, pays £4,763.06. 52% of Rotherham’s 123,210 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,381.53 a year: £238.15 over 10 payments or £198.46 over 12. 8% of Rotherham’s homes are in this band.
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Rotherham, 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 0.7%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Rotherham
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,587.69
£158.77
£132.31
52%
£1,852.30
£185.23
£154.36
20%
£2,116.92
£211.69
£176.41
13%
£2,381.53
£238.15
£198.46
8%
£2,910.76
£291.08
£242.56
4%
£3,439.99
£344.00
£286.67
2%
£3,969.22
£396.92
£330.77
0.7%
£4,763.06
£476.31
£396.92
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 Rotherham’s figures
At £2,381.53, Rotherham's Band D for 2026/27 is 5p more than Southampton's, and the two sit side by side, 190th and 191st of 296 in England, with Rotherham £29.44 under the English simple mean. The Rotherham figure has gone up by £98.27 since 2025/26, when it was £2,283.26: a 4.3% rise, smaller than Southampton's 5.1%.
Of Rotherham's 31 parishes, 29 raise precepts, worth an average of £61.92 on a Band D bill, 2.6% of the total. As an average across the borough, it does not tell a household in a particular parish exactly what it pays. Leaving parishes out, the council charges £1,944.52; £280.04 goes on policing and £95.05 on fire, the same as in Barnsley, Doncaster and Sheffield. Southampton, which has no parishes, leaves its city council a larger share: £1,998.18.
More than half the homes, 64,360 of 123,210, are valued in Band A, where bills average £1,587.69. Band B holds 24,470, billed £1,852.30 on average, and Band C 16,370, while bands F to H together contain 2,950. Southampton, for comparison, has its homes split almost evenly between bands A and B.
So two councils with practically the same Band D reach it by different routes: Rotherham with a parish layer, Southampton without one. Within its own group of four, the councils sharing its police and fire figures, Rotherham's Band D is exceeded only by Sheffield's £2,510.16. Rotherham's budget assumes 96% collection, on a base equal to 74,255.73 Band D homes.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Rotherham it is £2,381.53 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 106 of them charge less than Rotherham.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Rotherham’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 52%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 85% of the 123,210 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.