Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Southwark council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £1,967.26 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,311.51; the dearest, H, pays £3,934.52. 25% of Southwark’s 151,710 homes are in Band B.
Band D costs £1,967.26 a year: £196.73 over 10 payments or £163.94 over 12. 19% of Southwark’s homes are in this band.
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G
H
Southwark, 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 H 0.5% of homes.
Every band in Southwark
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,311.51
£131.15
£109.29
9%
£1,530.09
£153.01
£127.51
25%
£1,748.68
£174.87
£145.72
24%
£1,967.26
£196.73
£163.94
19%
£2,404.43
£240.44
£200.37
14%
£2,841.60
£284.16
£236.80
5%
£3,278.77
£327.88
£273.23
3%
£3,934.52
£393.45
£327.88
0.5%
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 Southwark’s figures
Band B narrowly outnumbers Band C in Southwark: 38,050 homes (25.1%) against 35,970 (23.7%). Add Band A and the three lowest bands cover 57.5% of the 151,710 properties that the Valuation Office Agency lists for the borough, while bands G and H together hold 5,450.
At £1,967.26, Southwark's 2026/27 Band D undercuts the simple mean of English councils, £2,410.97, by 18.4%. Of the 32 London boroughs, 6 charge less and the rest more; nationally the borough ranks 288th of 296.
Inside that Band D, £1,456.75 is the borough's own element and £510.51 the Greater London Authority's, a figure that also comprises police and fire for the whole capital. The GLA amount makes up 26.0% of the Southwark bill, the 7th largest GLA share in London. No parishes are recorded.
Band D was £1,877.90 in 2025/26, giving a rise this year of £89.36, or 4.8%. Southwark's most numerous bands, B and C, are billed £1,530.09 and £1,748.68 respectively in 2026/27; Band A pays £1,311.51, and a Band G property £3,278.77.
Southwark declares a tax base of 111,465 Band D equivalents, the 9th largest in London. Between the cheapest band, A, and the dearest, H, at £3,934.52, the difference is £2,623.01 a year. Its return reckons that 96.5% of what is billed will actually come in, a lower rate than 268 of England's 296 councils assume.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Southwark it is £1,967.26 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 8 of them charge less than Southwark.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Southwark’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 25%, is in Band B. Bands A to C together hold 58% of the 151,710 homes, and bands E to H hold 23%.
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.