Parishes · England · 2026-27

How much do parish and town councils add to council tax?

Average parish part of Band D£99.79MHCLG's average across the 8,902 parishes and trustees that set a precept for 2026-27; £92.20 in 2025-26.

Area averages set by councils for 2026-27 (MHCLG). Real bills vary by parish, band and discount. How the figures work

With a precept

8,900

of 10,245 parishes and trustees

Raised

£942m

in precepts for 2026-27

Highest part

£551

Elmton

Largest

Bournemouth Town

67,246 Band D homes

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The largest parish and town councils

Parish	Council	Parish part	Est. Band D bill	Band D homes
Bournemouth Town	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	£29.47	£2,429.46	67,246
Poole Town	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	£32.56	£2,432.55	58,261
Northampton Town	West Northamptonshire	£51.20	£2,430.51	37,977
Sutton Coldfield	Birmingham	£69.96	£2,423.13	37,619
Bath Charter Trustees	Bath and North East Somerset	£7.61	£2,325.27	34,553
Harrogate	North Yorkshire	£25.78	£2,514.58	28,731
Charter Trustees for the City of Durham	Durham	£2.70	£2,502.67	27,958
Shrewsbury	Shropshire	£172.23	£2,572.26	27,713
Weston super Mare	North Somerset	£164.12	£2,522.32	27,210
High Wycombe Charter Trustees	Buckinghamshire	£2.43	£2,420.78	24,649
Grimsby	North East Lincolnshire	£1.29	£2,461.65	23,297
Ellesmere Port Charter Trustee	Cheshire West and Chester	£4.76	£2,475.32	22,066
City of Chester Charter Trustee	Cheshire West and Chester	£12.60	£2,483.16	21,966
Bracknell	Bracknell Forest	£110.51	£2,281.56	21,805
Charter Trustee for Carlisle	Cumberland	£5.57	£2,450.29	20,735
Taunton	Somerset	£336.00	£2,704.18	20,603
Weymouth	Dorset	£219.70	£2,845.13	19,914
Macclesfield	Cheshire East	£71.44	£2,442.92	19,871
Central Swindon South	Swindon	£190.40	£2,452.12	19,711
Aylesbury	Buckinghamshire	£148.94	£2,567.29	19,471
Farnham	Waverley	£91.67	£2,602.91	18,587
Wellingborough	North Northamptonshire	£25.46	£2,369.12	17,958
Bishop's Stortford	East Hertfordshire	£68.69	£2,413.91	17,802
Kidderminster	Wyre Forest	£85.91	£2,518.51	17,715
Banbury	Cherwell	£134.82	£2,603.38	17,688
Wokingham	Wokingham	£79.90	£2,496.89	17,574
Kettering	North Northamptonshire	£34.85	£2,378.51	17,560
Bexhill-on-Sea	Rother	£91.75	£2,668.39	17,554
Andover Town	Test Valley	£38.27	£2,285.59	17,482
Royal Leamington Spa	Warwick	£29.98	£2,445.76	17,458
Barrow	Westmorland and Furness	£18.00	£2,474.81	17,024
Hereford	Herefordshire	£75.09	£2,556.45	16,772
Corby	North Northamptonshire	£45.67	£2,389.33	16,204
Leighton Linslade	Central Bedfordshire	£196.45	£2,548.30	15,806
Salisbury City Council	Wiltshire	£401.22	£2,777.59	15,719
Keighley	Bradford	£88.79	£2,421.85	15,411
Folkestone	Folkestone and Hythe	£73.99	£2,514.64	15,223
Crewe	Cheshire East	£99.99	£2,471.47	15,106
Bury St Edmunds	West Suffolk	£43.02	£2,288.88	15,018
Harpenden Town	St Albans	£119.79	£2,452.76	14,693
Stratford upon Avon	Stratford-on-Avon	£56.13	£2,452.88	14,670
Margate Charter Trustees	Thanet	£18.00	£2,440.71	14,004
Exmouth	East Devon	£96.30	£2,577.27	13,891
Chippenham	Wiltshire	£342.16	£2,718.53	13,773
Dunstable	Central Bedfordshire	£265.63	£2,617.48	13,596
Scarborough	North Yorkshire	£27.98	£2,516.78	13,582
Warwick	Warwick	£55.64	£2,471.42	13,533
Newbury	West Berkshire	£145.45	£2,552.36	13,527
Elstree and Borehamwood	Hertsmere	£85.06	£2,423.18	13,500
Bicester	Cherwell	£144.40	£2,612.96	13,489
Burgess Hill	Mid Sussex	£98.38	£2,472.87	13,453
Lowestoft	East Suffolk	£199.17	£2,433.15	13,380
Loughton Town	Epping Forest	£83.26	£2,270.17	13,267
Lichfield	Lichfield	£81.70	£2,369.25	13,157
Worksop Charter Trustees	Bassetlaw	£6.43	£2,601.92	13,005
Ramsgate	Thanet	£90.90	£2,513.61	12,996
Christchurch	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	£74.44	£2,474.43	12,989
Abingdon	Vale of White Horse	£168.33	£2,640.08	12,927
Hatfield	Welwyn Hatfield	£124.00	£2,514.19	12,871
Hertford	East Hertfordshire	£146.57	£2,491.79	12,828
Haywards Heath	Mid Sussex	£79.12	£2,453.61	12,739
Chichester	Chichester	£122.08	£2,492.15	12,672
Rayleigh	Rochford	£67.93	£2,350.60	12,475
Billericay	Basildon	£26.01	£2,340.36	12,371
Wilmslow	Cheshire East	£57.05	£2,428.53	12,362
Horsham	Horsham	£15.26	£2,367.63	12,358
Canvey Island	Castle Point	£25.92	£2,334.51	12,245
East Grinstead	Mid Sussex	£114.59	£2,489.08	12,130
Earley	Wokingham	£88.46	£2,505.45	12,081
St. Neots	Huntingdonshire	£183.44	£2,582.24	11,947
Trowbridge	Wiltshire	£305.76	£2,682.13	11,900
Bridlington	East Riding of Yorkshire	£29.10	£2,415.15	11,830
Morley	Leeds	£20.94	£2,292.45	11,559
Grantham	South Kesteven	£14.23	£2,203.40	11,471
Congleton	Cheshire East	£138.33	£2,509.81	11,465
Kendal	Westmorland and Furness	£68.64	£2,525.45	11,444
Didcot	South Oxfordshire	£149.88	£2,611.18	11,442
Malvern	Malvern Hills	£137.14	£2,494.26	11,379
Witney	West Oxfordshire	£213.35	£2,652.79	11,377
Horley	Reigate and Banstead	£57.31	£2,613.17	11,327
Blyth	Northumberland	£135.32	£2,628.99	11,281
Great Sankey	Warrington	£58.12	£2,461.15	11,277
Fleet	Hart	£139.47	£2,423.08	11,022
Woodley	Wokingham	£117.09	£2,534.08	11,015
Saint Anne's on the Sea	Fylde	£43.27	£2,420.83	11,005
Bridgwater	Somerset	£431.63	£2,799.81	10,951
Holme Valley	Kirklees	£41.27	£2,471.46	10,848
New Milton	New Forest	£150.72	£2,436.05	10,826
Littlehampton	Arun	£162.72	£2,556.02	10,626
Kenilworth	Warwick	£33.12	£2,448.90	10,562
Broadstairs and St. Peters	Thanet	£89.64	£2,512.35	10,548
Portishead	North Somerset	£225.50	£2,583.70	10,478
Godalming	Waverley	£132.09	£2,643.33	10,278
Morecambe	Lancaster	£104.05	£2,565.12	10,079
Sevenoaks	Sevenoaks	£161.19	£2,563.23	10,076
Rushden	North Northamptonshire	£148.66	£2,492.32	10,064
Central Swindon North	Swindon	£247.76	£2,509.48	10,010
Shenley Brook End	Milton Keynes	£115.00	£2,350.27	9,922
Winsford	Cheshire West and Chester	£86.97	£2,557.53	9,897
Saddleworth	Oldham	£29.78	£2,625.25	9,877
Seaford	Lewes	£130.71	£2,559.04	9,822
Wickford	Basildon	£25.11	£2,339.46	9,822
Yeovil	Somerset	£369.73	£2,737.91	9,731
Newquay	Cornwall	£349.10	£2,738.66	9,704
Kirkburton	Kirklees	£17.21	£2,447.40	9,703
Cramlington	Northumberland	£131.34	£2,625.01	9,687
Evesham	Wychavon	£100.69	£2,403.42	9,657
Cleethorpes	North East Lincolnshire	£2.07	£2,462.43	9,650
Frome	Somerset	£315.30	£2,683.48	9,588
Totton and Eling	New Forest	£191.85	£2,477.18	9,588
Daventry	West Northamptonshire	£178.25	£2,557.56	9,524
Witham	Braintree	£117.52	£2,333.32	9,463
Billingham	Stockton-on-Tees	£39.29	£2,611.39	9,447
Newark	Newark and Sherwood	£146.64	£2,728.68	9,421
Formby	Sefton	£14.53	£2,579.26	9,378
Felixstowe	East Suffolk	£79.97	£2,313.95	9,377
Ecclesfield	Sheffield	£33.35	£2,538.67	9,367
Crowborough	Wealden	£196.31	£2,777.14	9,345
Westhoughton	Bolton	£22.15	£2,414.48	9,255
Thatcham	West Berkshire	£135.91	£2,542.82	9,216
Chandler's Ford	Eastleigh	£74.00	£2,270.76	9,180
Frinton and Walton	Tendring	£96.46	£2,298.67	9,169
Leigh on Sea	Southend-on-Sea	£59.39	£2,315.69	9,150
North Horsham	Horsham	£45.74	£2,398.11	9,112
Sandbach	Cheshire East	£95.21	£2,466.69	9,044
Newton Abbot	Teignbridge	£202.40	£2,714.78	9,002
Abbots Langley	Three Rivers	£127.31	£2,445.49	8,969
Haydon Wick	Swindon	£176.13	£2,437.85	8,936
Yate	South Gloucestershire	£234.00	£2,637.20	8,850
West Swindon	Swindon	£150.36	£2,412.08	8,797
Dorchester	Dorset	£218.83	£2,844.26	8,746
Bingley	Bradford	£28.18	£2,361.24	8,732
Berkhamsted	Dacorum	£69.03	£2,450.43	8,692
Droitwich Spa	Wychavon	£50.68	£2,353.41	8,681
Burntwood	Lichfield	£49.12	£2,336.67	8,591
Dover	Dover	£127.31	£2,498.21	8,542
Kingswood	South Gloucestershire	£98.87	£2,502.07	8,539
Ryde	Isle of Wight	£198.19	£2,685.26	8,501
Windlesham	Surrey Heath	£68.56	£2,627.62	8,478
Romsey Town	Test Valley	£66.60	£2,313.92	8,473
Eastleigh Town	Eastleigh	£125.37	£2,322.13	8,470
Ashington	Northumberland	£119.76	£2,613.43	8,414
Chesham	Buckinghamshire	£196.57	£2,614.92	8,400
Newport	Isle of Wight	£145.45	£2,632.52	8,398
Stanley	Durham	£122.31	£2,622.28	8,389
Falmouth	Cornwall	£488.15	£2,877.71	8,311
Haverhill	West Suffolk	£198.10	£2,443.96	8,168
Ingleby Barwick	Stockton-on-Tees	£22.13	£2,594.23	8,147
Haslemere	Waverley	£67.55	£2,578.79	8,132
Darwen	Blackburn with Darwen	£12.17	£2,462.26	8,061
Biggleswade	Central Bedfordshire	£239.71	£2,591.56	8,054
Sandhurst	Bracknell Forest	£84.95	£2,256.00	8,045
Hailsham	Wealden	£218.18	£2,799.01	8,010
Waltham Abbey Town	Epping Forest	£154.04	£2,340.95	7,995
Hedge End	Eastleigh	£146.28	£2,343.04	7,995
Shinfield	Wokingham	£90.69	£2,507.68	7,993
Lymington and Pennington	New Forest	£151.56	£2,436.89	7,976
Clevedon	North Somerset	£68.75	£2,426.95	7,932
Horwich	Bolton	£40.48	£2,432.81	7,895
Yateley	Hart	£82.55	£2,366.16	7,876
Penwortham	South Ribble	£34.12	£2,464.28	7,847
East Retford Charter Trustees	Bassetlaw	£2.88	£2,598.37	7,823
Northwich	Cheshire West and Chester	£94.97	£2,565.53	7,805
Alton	East Hampshire	£121.44	£2,351.77	7,798
Huntingdon	Huntingdonshire	£285.93	£2,684.73	7,792
Houghton Regis	Central Bedfordshire	£234.45	£2,586.30	7,760
Ferndown	Dorset	£128.95	£2,754.38	7,742
Ely	East Cambridgeshire	£109.83	£2,479.92	7,714
Penzance	Cornwall	£328.07	£2,717.63	7,709
Truro	Cornwall	£459.89	£2,849.45	7,670
Ash	Guildford	£82.39	£2,583.57	7,650
Watford Rural	Three Rivers	£39.94	£2,358.12	7,625
Ware	East Hertfordshire	£278.47	£2,623.69	7,617
Cirencester	Cotswold	£269.81	£2,537.78	7,599
Bognor Regis	Arun	£145.68	£2,538.98	7,580
Horsforth	Leeds	£28.38	£2,299.89	7,576
Wellington	Telford and Wrekin	£127.90	£2,237.63	7,574
Hythe and Dibden	New Forest	£169.81	£2,455.14	7,564
Workington	Cumberland	£148.88	£2,593.60	7,555
Stamford	South Kesteven	£126.26	£2,315.43	7,548
Tiverton	Mid Devon	£104.08	£2,654.42	7,519
Kingsthorpe	West Northamptonshire	£63.72	£2,443.03	7,509
Faversham	Swale	£130.03	£2,486.35	7,488
Belper	Amber Valley	£117.11	£2,436.88	7,476
Deal	Dover	£82.18	£2,453.08	7,426
Stratton St Margaret	Swindon	£184.56	£2,446.28	7,423
Sidmouth	East Devon	£111.35	£2,592.32	7,420
Ilkley	Bradford	£56.97	£2,390.03	7,379
Stourport on Severn	Wyre Forest	£85.71	£2,518.31	7,363
Whitehaven	Cumberland	£72.05	£2,516.77	7,282
Stowmarket	Mid Suffolk	£227.06	£2,443.48	7,276
Sunninghill & Ascot	Windsor and Maidenhead	£61.34	£1,955.34	7,237
Maghull	Sefton	£131.29	£2,696.02	7,214
Saffron Walden	Uttlesford	£214.85	£2,412.10	7,182
Keynsham	Bath and North East Somerset	£132.44	£2,450.10	7,180
Dronfield	North East Derbyshire	£153.12	£2,492.27	7,165
Barnstaple	North Devon	£257.00	£2,784.21	7,164
St Andrews	Swindon	£107.24	£2,368.96	7,158
West Bletchley	Milton Keynes	£189.98	£2,425.25	7,131
March	Fenland	£54.00	£2,535.30	7,129
Chalfont St. Peter	Buckinghamshire	£93.46	£2,511.81	7,126
Burnham on Sea and Highbridge	Somerset	£202.06	£2,570.24	7,116
Finchampstead	Wokingham	£33.92	£2,450.91	7,085
Mirfield	Kirklees	£37.42	£2,467.61	7,082
Winkfield	Bracknell Forest	£86.91	£2,257.96	7,079
St Stephen	St Albans	£118.89	£2,451.86	7,056
Broughton	Milton Keynes	£61.98	£2,297.25	7,053
Bradley Stoke	South Gloucestershire	£135.37	£2,538.57	7,048
Ripley	Amber Valley	£106.59	£2,426.36	7,037
Royston	North Hertfordshire	£84.92	£2,498.90	7,036
Kidsgrove	Newcastle-under-Lyme	£34.05	£2,347.29	7,015
Great Aycliffe	Durham	£312.38	£2,812.35	7,011
Guisborough	Redcar and Cleveland	£28.15	£2,554.37	6,998
Amersham	Buckinghamshire	£168.03	£2,586.38	6,989
Emersons Green	South Gloucestershire	£117.04	£2,520.24	6,973
Marlow	Buckinghamshire	£66.14	£2,484.49	6,963
Thetford	Breckland	£194.64	£2,506.29	6,888
Highcliffe and Walkford Neighbourhood Council	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	£33.76	£2,433.75	6,865
Chepping Wycombe	Buckinghamshire	£75.83	£2,494.18	6,850
Cottingham	East Riding of Yorkshire	£39.36	£2,425.41	6,797
Wymondham	South Norfolk	£114.25	£2,482.42	6,786
Spennymoor	Durham	£237.94	£2,737.91	6,785
Lancing	Adur	£58.72	£2,584.98	6,779
Quedgeley	Gloucester	£45.82	£2,393.99	6,748
Nantwich	Cheshire East	£166.53	£2,538.01	6,748
Wisbech	Fenland	£61.52	£2,542.82	6,741
Hythe	Folkestone and Hythe	£66.09	£2,506.74	6,729
Calne	Wiltshire	£288.81	£2,665.18	6,699
Camborne	Cornwall	£281.75	£2,671.31	6,682
Myland	Colchester	£18.04	£2,258.98	6,668
Bourne	South Kesteven	£49.00	£2,238.17	6,648
St Austell	Cornwall	£213.90	£2,603.46	6,641
Leek	Staffordshire Moorlands	£41.27	£2,318.53	6,638
Batchworth	Three Rivers	£29.93	£2,348.11	6,632
Brixham	Torbay	£99.07	£2,556.06	6,623
Warminster	Wiltshire	£229.61	£2,605.98	6,606
Nailsea	North Somerset	£115.85	£2,474.05	6,585
Bletchley and Fenny Stratford	Milton Keynes	£216.73	£2,452.00	6,577
Sprowston	Broadland	£143.43	£2,466.51	6,573
Beverley	East Riding of Yorkshire	£68.57	£2,454.62	6,567
Beaconsfield	Buckinghamshire	£94.04	£2,512.39	6,557
Cranleigh	Waverley	£102.51	£2,613.75	6,544
Ashby de la Zouch	North West Leicestershire	£132.14	£2,459.82	6,539
Knaresborough	North Yorkshire	£42.89	£2,531.69	6,536
Saltburn Marske & New Marske	Redcar and Cleveland	£22.56	£2,548.78	6,529
Normanton	Wakefield	£58.99	£2,318.39	6,520
Sleaford	North Kesteven	£149.15	£2,355.41	6,509
Fleetwood	Wyre	£62.45	£2,491.38	6,507
Lewes	Lewes	£238.48	£2,666.81	6,480
Verwood	Dorset	£71.89	£2,697.32	6,448
Stone (Town)	Stafford	£66.99	£2,336.84	6,439
Great Linford	Milton Keynes	£131.52	£2,366.79	6,422
Denby Dale	Kirklees	£45.73	£2,475.92	6,421
Whittlesey	Fenland	£27.63	£2,508.93	6,406
Poynton with Worth	Cheshire East	£109.19	£2,480.67	6,390
Chigwell	Epping Forest	£51.01	£2,237.92	6,379
Clitheroe	Ribble Valley	£24.22	£2,383.79	6,375
Biddulph	Staffordshire Moorlands	£86.11	£2,363.37	6,373
Baildon	Bradford	£56.77	£2,389.82	6,371
Chorleywood	Three Rivers	£96.60	£2,414.78	6,355
Knutsford	Cheshire East	£148.93	£2,520.41	6,311
Ponteland	Northumberland	£76.84	£2,570.51	6,291
Henley on Thames	South Oxfordshire	£170.35	£2,631.65	6,259
Morpeth	Northumberland	£128.94	£2,622.61	6,257
Rustington	Arun	£131.87	£2,525.17	6,256
Thornaby	Stockton-on-Tees	£29.45	£2,601.55	6,236
Penrith	Westmorland and Furness	£84.76	£2,541.57	6,215
Nelson	Pendle	£117.72	£2,623.31	6,201
Kempston Town	Bedford	£53.34	£2,461.69	6,197
Burbage	Hinckley and Bosworth	£82.15	£2,384.84	6,182
Devizes	Wiltshire	£228.64	£2,605.01	6,178
Bradfield	Sheffield	£44.02	£2,549.34	6,173
Skegness	East Lindsey	£136.90	£2,319.67	6,151
St. Ives	Cornwall	£287.74	£2,677.30	6,133
Ripon	North Yorkshire	£81.78	£2,570.58	6,133
South Woodham Ferrers	Chelmsford	£76.32	£2,288.07	6,131
Dereham	Breckland	£209.74	£2,521.39	6,101
Dawlish	Teignbridge	£121.21	£2,633.59	6,096
St. Ives	Huntingdonshire	£202.44	£2,601.24	6,090
Halewood	Knowsley	£97.65	£2,545.81	6,053
Brackley	West Northamptonshire	£190.39	£2,569.70	6,045
Uckfield	Wealden	£236.92	£2,817.75	6,045
Maldon	Maldon	£87.22	£2,335.96	6,038
Shaw and Crompton	Oldham	£18.48	£2,613.95	6,018
Swanage	Dorset	£192.64	£2,818.07	6,016
Louth	East Lindsey	£62.73	£2,245.50	6,011
Neston	Cheshire West and Chester	£83.31	£2,553.87	5,997
Bridport	Dorset	£216.88	£2,842.31	5,993
Melksham	Wiltshire	£259.37	£2,635.74	5,987
Newmarket	West Suffolk	£189.96	£2,435.82	5,959
Wellington	Somerset	£263.52	£2,631.70	5,957
Hednesford	Cannock Chase	£40.53	£2,385.10	5,910
Northam	Torridge	£113.18	£2,618.24	5,908
Harwich	Tendring	£39.68	£2,241.89	5,887
Thornbury	South Gloucestershire	£173.66	£2,576.86	5,886
Whitby	North Yorkshire	£74.53	£2,563.33	5,886
Petersfield	East Hampshire	£222.87	£2,453.20	5,880
Skipton	North Yorkshire	£102.62	£2,591.42	5,871
Swanley	Sevenoaks	£126.99	£2,529.03	5,857
Duston	West Northamptonshire	£158.49	£2,537.80	5,827

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Data: MHCLG, 2026-27 releases, under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources and method