Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Wolverhampton council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,538.99 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,692.66; the dearest, H, pays £5,077.98. 50% of Wolverhampton’s 114,270 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,538.99 a year: £253.90 over 10 payments or £211.58 over 12. 6% of Wolverhampton’s homes are in this band.
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C
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F
G
H
Wolverhampton, 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 2%, Band G 0.9%, Band H 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Wolverhampton
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,692.66
£169.27
£141.06
50%
£1,974.77
£197.48
£164.56
22%
£2,256.88
£225.69
£188.07
15%
£2,538.99
£253.90
£211.58
6%
£3,103.21
£310.32
£258.60
3%
£3,667.43
£366.74
£305.62
2%
£4,231.65
£423.17
£352.64
0.9%
£5,077.98
£507.80
£423.17
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 Wolverhampton’s figures
Half of Wolverhampton's properties are valued in Band A: 57,550 of 114,270 on the list. The 2026/27 average for that band is £1,692.66. Band B, which holds another 25,630 homes, averages £1,974.77, and Band C, with 17,710, £2,256.88. Band E, with 3,150 homes, is charged £3,103.21.
Band D is set at £2,538.99, £125.01 or 5.2% more than in 2025/26. That places Wolverhampton 69th of 296 English councils, £128.02 over the simple mean. The city council's own part, £2,209.30, is 87.0% of the total, the sixth highest council share in England. Police and fire take £329.69 between them, £244.50 and £85.19 respectively, and there is neither a county nor a parish element.
Those police and fire figures are identical in Walsall and Dudley, yet the three Band D totals differ widely: Walsall charges £2,627.48 and Dudley £2,144.84. What separates the three is each council's own share, which in Wolverhampton is £394.15 more than Dudley's and £88.49 less than Walsall's. Birmingham, Coventry, Sandwell and Solihull carry the same police and fire amounts too, and of all seven only Walsall has a higher Band D than Wolverhampton.
For budgeting, the city counts 67,714.06 Band D equivalents, roughly 0.59 per property, and expects 97% to be collected. At the top of the scale, 1,000 properties sit in Band G and 130 in Band H, at an average of £5,077.98, while Band D itself, the yardstick of the national tables, holds 7,380.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Wolverhampton it is £2,538.99 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 227 of them charge less than Wolverhampton.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Wolverhampton’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 50%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 88% of the 114,270 homes, and bands E to H hold 5%.
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.