Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Wakefield council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,296.89 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,531.26; the dearest, H, pays £4,593.78. 48% of Wakefield’s 165,780 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,296.89 a year: £229.69 over 10 payments or £191.41 over 12. 10% of Wakefield’s homes are in this band.
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B
C
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G
H
Wakefield, 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 F 2%, Band G 0.7%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Wakefield
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,531.26
£153.13
£127.61
48%
£1,786.47
£178.65
£148.87
19%
£2,041.68
£204.17
£170.14
15%
£2,296.89
£229.69
£191.41
10%
£2,807.31
£280.73
£233.94
5%
£3,317.73
£331.77
£276.48
2%
£3,828.15
£382.82
£319.01
0.7%
£4,593.78
£459.38
£382.82
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 Wakefield’s figures
Close to half of Wakefield's homes, 79,880 out of 165,780, are valued in Band A. Their average charge for 2026/27 is £1,531.26. Band D, the reference point in the national tables, comes to £2,296.89, up £110.96 (5.1%) on 2025/26, which places Wakefield 243rd of 296 English councils and £114.08 below their simple average.
Wakefield is parished: 25 of its 26 parishes set precepts, which add £37.49 to Band D when averaged across the whole council area. That makes up 1.6% of the bill. Since the published amount is an average, households in a parish with a larger precept pay more than it, and others less.
The remaining Band D money is divided between the council (£1,891.63), the police (£278.28, 12.1%) and the fire service (£89.49, 3.9%). Those police and fire sums are identical in Leeds, Bradford, Calderdale and Kirklees, where Band D ranges from £2,283.73 in Leeds to £2,441.07 in Kirklees, which means that between these five places the variation in bills comes from what each council and its parishes ask for.
The top bands are sparsely populated. F, G and H together contain 3,950 properties, 2.4% of the list, and only 100 reach Band H. Band B, by contrast, has 31,580 and Band C 25,030. The council's return puts the tax base at 107,890 Band D equivalents, roughly two thirds of the property count, with 99% of the tax assumed to be collected.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Wakefield it is £2,296.89 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 53 of them charge less than Wakefield.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Wakefield’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 48%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 82% of the 165,780 homes, and bands E to H hold 8%.
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.