Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Walsall council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,627.48 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,751.65; the dearest, H, pays £5,254.96. 44% of Walsall’s 118,970 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,627.48 a year: £262.75 over 10 payments or £218.96 over 12. 9% of Walsall’s homes are in this band.
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G
H
Walsall, 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 Walsall
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,751.65
£175.17
£145.97
44%
£2,043.60
£204.36
£170.30
23%
£2,335.54
£233.55
£194.63
16%
£2,627.48
£262.75
£218.96
9%
£3,211.36
£321.14
£267.61
5%
£3,795.25
£379.53
£316.27
2%
£4,379.13
£437.91
£364.93
0.7%
£5,254.96
£525.50
£437.91
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 Walsall’s figures
Walsall's housing is weighted heavily towards the cheapest band. Of 118,970 properties, 52,450 (44%) are valued in Band A, and their average bill for 2026/27 is £1,751.65, two thirds of the Band D rate of £2,627.48. Bands A and B combined take in 68% of the stock; above Band E the counts thin quickly, to 2,430 in F, 860 in G and 60 in H.
The Band D rate itself is high on the English scale. Only 20 of 296 council areas charge more, and compared with the £2,498.27 of 2025/26 it has climbed by £129.21, which is 5.2%. Even Walsall's Band A average is higher than the Band D charge in five English council areas.
Nearly all of that money stays with the borough. Walsall Council's own element is £2,297.79, 87.5% of the Band D total, a proportion that only two English councils exceed. A police precept of £244.50 and a fire precept of £85.19 make up the rest; no county tier and no parishes appear. Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull and Wolverhampton are charged the identical police and fire sums, so what sets Walsall apart from them is its council element, plus small parish precepts in Birmingham, Coventry and Solihull. Dudley, for example, asks £482.64 less at Band D.
The gap between Band A and Band D in Walsall, £875.83 a year, separates the bill of the largest group of households from the headline figure. Walsall's budget rests on 76,051.97 Band D equivalents and an expected 98% collection.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Walsall it is £2,627.48 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 275 of them charge less than Walsall.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Walsall’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 44%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 84% of the 118,970 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.