Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Southampton council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,381.48 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,587.65; the dearest, H, pays £4,762.96. 33% of Southampton’s 111,740 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,381.48 a year: £238.15 over 10 payments or £198.46 over 12. 9% of Southampton’s homes are in this band.
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G
H
Southampton, 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 0.4%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Southampton
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,587.65
£158.77
£132.30
33%
£1,852.26
£185.23
£154.36
32%
£2,116.87
£211.69
£176.41
21%
£2,381.48
£238.15
£198.46
9%
£2,910.70
£291.07
£242.56
3%
£3,439.92
£343.99
£286.66
1%
£3,969.13
£396.91
£330.76
0.4%
£4,762.96
£476.30
£396.91
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 Southampton’s figures
Southampton's Band D for 2026/27 is £2,381.48, which is £115.04 more than the £2,266.44 charged in 2025/26, an increase of 5.1%. That keeps the city very near the middle of the English range: 191st of 296 council areas, only £29.49 below their simple average. Rotherham, at £2,381.53, is just 5p dearer.
Two bands account for most homes. Band A counts 37,090 properties and Band B 35,950, 65% of the 111,740 in the city between them, and the two counts differ by only 1,140. Their average charges are £1,587.65 and £1,852.26. Band C follows with 23,800 at £2,116.87, while Band D has 9,800. Right at the top, bands F, G and H hold 1,910 properties altogether, and Band H by itself just 30.
The city council keeps £1,998.18 of a Band D bill, 83.9% of it. The other £383.30 is shared between the police, at £290.46, and fire, at £92.84; Southampton has no parish councils and no county tier. Police and fire together represent 16.1% of the bill.
Rotherham reaches almost the same Band D by a different route. It has 31 parishes, while Southampton has none, and Southampton's city council element is £53.66 larger than the council element in Rotherham. With so much of the housing in the two lowest bands, Southampton's tax base comes to 67,790 when expressed in Band D homes, well under the property count, and 98% collection is assumed.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Southampton it is £2,381.48 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 105 of them charge less than Southampton.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Southampton’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 33%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 87% of the 111,740 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.