Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Salford council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,594.45 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,729.63; the dearest, H, pays £5,188.90. 47% of Salford’s 138,900 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,594.45 a year: £259.45 over 10 payments or £216.20 over 12. 9% of Salford’s homes are in this band.
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B
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F
G
H
Salford, 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 E 3%, Band F 1%, Band G 0.6%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Salford
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,729.63
£172.96
£144.14
47%
£2,017.91
£201.79
£168.16
23%
£2,306.18
£230.62
£192.18
16%
£2,594.45
£259.45
£216.20
9%
£3,170.99
£317.10
£264.25
3%
£3,747.54
£374.75
£312.30
1%
£4,324.08
£432.41
£360.34
0.6%
£5,188.90
£518.89
£432.41
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 Salford’s figures
For 2026/27 a Band D home in Salford is charged £2,594.45, the 42nd highest figure among England's 296 councils and 7.6% over their simple mean. Last year it was £2,452.02. The jump of £142.43, or 5.8%, was in percentage terms bigger than in all but 17 councils.
Set beside Manchester, the bill shows where local choices make a difference. Both cities pay the same police precept, £285.30, and the same £153.95 to the combined authority. Salford's own council share, however, is £2,155.20 (83.1%), and that alone explains why its Band D is £282.41 higher than Manchester's. Neither city has any parishes, and neither has a county council above it in the table.
Salford's homes are mostly in the bottom two bands. Of 138,900 listed by the Valuation Office Agency, 64,680 are Band A (46.6%) and 32,220 Band B (23.2%). Band D represents 9.3%, and the top band, H, has just 110 properties, charged £5,188.90 apiece this year. A Band A bill costs £1,729.63, a Band B bill £2,017.91; that Band A amount is more than the Band D charged by 5 councils elsewhere in England.
In its return the council records a tax base of 80,709 Band D equivalents and plans on collecting 96%. Every amount here is a city-wide average from the government's tables; Table 10 is the one that breaks each council's Band D into the bodies that receive it.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Salford it is £2,594.45 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 254 of them charge less than Salford.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Salford’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 47%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 86% of the 138,900 homes, and bands E to H hold 5%.
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.