Council tax 2026/27 · 350 UK billing authorities
Every council. Every figure source‑linked and verified.
CouncilData structures the data 350 UK councils publish in inconsistent pages and PDFs into one canonical, citable dataset — every record dated, sourced and two‑pass verified.
350
councils covered
339
two-pass verified
£1,020.35
lowest Band D (Wandsworth)
£2,755.39
highest Band D (Nottingham)
Every billing authority
Find your council
Click a region on the map, or search — every one of the 350 councils links to its full verified band table, source link and FAQs. Prefer a list? Browse the national table.
Click a region tile, or search all 350.
Why we exist
Most council tax figures online are wrong. Ours carry receipts.
Aggregators copy the wrong number
Third-party sites publish Cardiff's Band D as £2,013 — the GOV.WALES area average. The statutory figure on Cardiff's own page is £2,008.86. We record the council's number, linked to the council's page.
Partial figures presented as totals
Newcastle's Band D is widely quoted as £1,844.63 — the city element only. The real bill including police and fire precepts is £2,540.66. Every CouncilData figure states exactly what it includes.
Councils get their own pages wrong
We found typos in Westminster's table, a stale GLA figure on Islington's page and a garbled Band H at Exeter — and recorded the arithmetic-confirmed correct values, with notes.
Read how the verification works in our methodology or see why council tax data online is so often wrong.
Tools
Work with the data
Calculator
Pick your council and band — see your annual, monthly and weekly charge.
Open →Band checker
Every band A–H (A–I in Wales) for any council, with the source link.
Open →Compare councils
Put up to three councils side by side, band by band.
Open →Rankings
All 350 councils ranked by Band D, cheapest to most expensive.
Open →Guides
Understand your bill
How council tax bands work
What bands mean, how they were set, and the ninths arithmetic behind every bill.
Open →Challenge your band
How to check and formally challenge your banding in England, Wales and Scotland.
Open →Discounts & exemptions
Single-person discount, student exemptions, disability reductions and more.
Open →Not available anywhere else
Data nobody else publishes
Corrections log
Every wrong figure we catch — on aggregators, in viral claims, on councils' own pages — logged publicly with the verified value.
Open →Data confidence index
A reproducible 0-100 score for every council's published data: verified, complete, current, cleanly published.
Open →Change tracker
When every figure was last read from source, and every value change logged append-only. Nothing goes stale silently.
Open →Parish & precept explorer
Parish premiums and area variations, verbatim from council sources — the small print no aggregator records.
Open →Questions
Quick answers
Where can I find council tax rates for every UK council in 2026/27?+
CouncilData publishes verified 2026/27 council tax bands for all 350 UK billing authorities — England, Scotland and Wales — each figure read from the council's own page with a source link and verified date. Start at councildata.co.uk/council-tax/.
What is the cheapest council tax in the UK in 2026/27?+
Wandsworth has the lowest Band D in the UK at £1,020.35 for 2026/27. The highest is Nottingham at £2,755.39.
Is CouncilData free to use and cite?+
Yes — headline tables are free under CC BY 4.0 with attribution to CouncilData and a link. Bulk data, full history and change alerts are licensed commercially.
How is the data verified?+
Five rules: every record carries a source URL on the council's own domain and a verified date; figures pass independent two-pass verification and arithmetic checks against statutory band ratios; changes are logged in an append-only changelog; anything unverifiable is flagged, never estimated.
Does the data cover Scotland and Wales?+
Yes — all 32 Scottish and 22 Welsh billing authorities, alongside 296 English ones. Scottish figures isolate the council tax element (excluding Scottish Water charges) and Welsh councils are recorded across all nine bands, A to I.
Can AI assistants and journalists reuse these figures?+
Yes, with attribution. Machine-readable summaries live at /llms.txt and /llms-full.txt, every page carries schema.org structured data, and the full CSV is downloadable. Cite as: Source: CouncilData (councildata.co.uk), CC BY 4.0.
The aggregation layer the government never built.
Headline tables are free under CC BY 4.0 with attribution. Bulk data, history and alerts are available for commercial use.