Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Tower Hamlets council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £1,837.78 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,225.19; the dearest, H, pays £3,675.56. 27% of Tower Hamlets’ 151,640 homes are in Band C.
Band D costs £1,837.78 a year: £183.78 over 10 payments or £153.15 over 12. 22% of Tower Hamlets’ homes are in this band.
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H
Tower Hamlets, 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 A 3%, Band H 0.5% of homes.
Every band in Tower Hamlets
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,225.19
£122.52
£102.10
3%
£1,429.38
£142.94
£119.12
17%
£1,633.58
£163.36
£136.13
27%
£1,837.78
£183.78
£153.15
22%
£2,246.18
£224.62
£187.18
18%
£2,654.57
£265.46
£221.21
10%
£3,062.97
£306.30
£255.25
4%
£3,675.56
£367.56
£306.30
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 Tower Hamlets’ figures
Tower Hamlets sets one of England's lowest Band D charges. At £1,837.78 for 2026/27, its Band D is 6th from the bottom of the 296-council table and 23.8% under the simple average of English councils. Inside London, just 4 boroughs ask for less.
A low borough charge changes the shape of the bill. The Greater London Authority adds the same £510.51 in every London borough, an amount that also covers London's police force, the Met, and its fire brigade. Where the borough's own element is modest, as here at £1,327.27, the GLA's slice grows: it reaches 27.8% of Band D in Tower Hamlets, the 5th highest proportion among the 32 boroughs.
Housing in the borough is weighted towards the middle bands rather than the bottom. Band C is the most frequent, with 40,920 properties (27.0%), and Band D next at 21.5%. Band A holds only 4,490 homes, or 3.0% of the 151,640 listed. Bands E to H make up 32.0%, and a Band E bill this year comes to £2,246.18.
Compared with 2025/26, when the Band D charge stood at £1,754.57, Tower Hamlets has added £83.21, an increase of 4.7%. Its return puts the base at 111,852 Band D equivalents, the 8th largest among the boroughs, with 95% expected to be collected.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Tower Hamlets it is £1,837.78 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 5 of them charge less than Tower Hamlets.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Tower Hamlets’ homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 27%, is in Band C. Bands A to C together hold 47% of the 151,640 homes, and bands E to H hold 32%.
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.