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Councils that put Band D up the most this year
Biggest rise in the area Band D bill for 2026-27
+9.0%
Average rise across billing authorities: 4.8%.
Ranked by percentage change in the area Band D bill, 2025-26 to 2026-27.
How we got this: percentage change = (2026-27 Band D − 2025-26 Band D) ÷ 2025-26 Band D, using the area bill — the whole amount a household in that area pays. County councils are not billing authorities and set no area Band D, so they are not in this ranking.
This card ranks councils by how much the Band D bill for their area changed on last year. It is a like-for-like comparison of the same number in two years.
The figure is the area bill — the whole amount a household pays, including the county, police and fire shares where those apply. County councils are not ranked here: they do not set the area bill, the district council does.
The ranked list on this page is worked out from the published Band D rates each time the page is built, so it always matches the data on the site. The top of the list is the biggest percentage rise.
No. Every council has a limit on how far it can raise Band D before it has to hold a local vote, and that limit is not the same for everyone — a few councils are granted a higher one. A council can appear high in this ranking and still be well inside its own limit. The Tax cap breakers card measures each council against its own limit.
Band D council tax rates are published by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. We take each council's headline figure straight from GOV.UK.