Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Sunderland council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,197.14 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,464.76; the dearest, H, pays £4,394.28. 59% of Sunderland’s 135,520 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,197.14 a year: £219.71 over 10 payments or £183.10 over 12. 8% of Sunderland’s homes are in this band.
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H
Sunderland, 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 0.9%, Band G 0.5%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Sunderland
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,464.76
£146.48
£122.06
59%
£1,708.89
£170.89
£142.41
15%
£1,953.01
£195.30
£162.75
14%
£2,197.14
£219.71
£183.10
8%
£2,685.39
£268.54
£223.78
3%
£3,173.65
£317.37
£264.47
0.9%
£3,661.90
£366.19
£305.16
0.5%
£4,394.28
£439.43
£366.19
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 Sunderland’s figures
The police precept in Sunderland is £214.34 at Band D for 2026/27, and no English council area outside London shows a lower police amount; in the London boroughs, policing is included in the GLA share instead. Gateshead, Newcastle upon Tyne, North Tyneside, Northumberland and South Tyneside have the same figure.
Sunderland's Band D totals £2,197.14, made up of £1,876.80 for the city council, that police amount, £105.11 for fire and £0.89 for its one parish, averaged over the whole city. It rose by £104.35 (5.0%) from £2,092.79 and ranks 272nd of 296 in England, £213.83 below the simple average. The city council's own part makes up 85.4% of Band D, the tenth highest council share in England.
Band A accounts for 80,440 of the 135,520 properties, 59%, a share exceeded in only seven English councils. The average Band A bill is £1,464.76. Bands B and C are much smaller, at 20,310 and 18,570, with Band C bills averaging £1,953.01; Band D has 10,290, and the top band holds a mere 60.
All those Band A homes keep the tax base low relative to the size of the list: 77,227 Band D equivalents, or 0.57 per property, a ratio lower than in all but 12 English areas. Among the six councils that share Sunderland's police figure, its Band D is the lowest; Gateshead's, at £2,715.81, is £518.67 higher. The budget assumes a 98% collection rate.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Sunderland it is £2,197.14 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 24 of them charge less than Sunderland.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Sunderland’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 59%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 88% of the 135,520 homes, and bands E to H hold 4%.
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.