Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Barnsley council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,325.96 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,550.64; the dearest, H, pays £4,651.92. 56% of Barnsley’s 116,230 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,325.96 a year: £232.60 over 10 payments or £193.83 over 12. 8% of Barnsley’s homes are in this band.
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G
H
Barnsley, 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 1%, Band G 0.6%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Barnsley
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,550.64
£155.06
£129.22
56%
£1,809.08
£180.91
£150.76
17%
£2,067.52
£206.75
£172.29
13%
£2,325.96
£232.60
£193.83
8%
£2,842.84
£284.28
£236.90
4%
£3,359.72
£335.97
£279.98
1%
£3,876.60
£387.66
£323.05
0.6%
£4,651.92
£465.19
£387.66
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 Barnsley’s figures
Barnsley's average Band D climbed 3.8% for 2026/27, taking it from £2,241.35 to £2,325.96. In cash terms that is £84.61, a smaller step than the 4.8% simple average across English councils, although 27 of the 296 areas raised their Band D by a smaller percentage still.
Barnsley budgets on receiving 95.5% of the tax due, a collection assumption that only six English councils pitched lower. Measured in Band D equivalents, its base comes to 68,252.32, or 0.59 per property; only 21 English areas have a lower ratio. On the English Band D table Barnsley sits 226th, £85.01 short of the simple mean.
Barnsley Council itself receives £1,942.29 of a Band D bill. Policing is charged at £280.04 and fire at £95.05, matching Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield; among those four, Barnsley's Band D is third, ahead of Doncaster only. Sixteen of its seventeen parishes set a precept, adding £8.58 on average across the borough, a sum that varies with the parish a home is in.
Band A is home to 65,370 of Barnsley's 116,230 listed properties, 56%, with an average charge of £1,550.64. Band B follows at 19,630 and Band C at 14,720. Band D itself has 9,870 properties, fewer than one in ten, while a mere 60 make it into Band H, charged £4,651.92 on average.
For more than half of Barnsley households, in other words, the relevant figure is the Band A one rather than the headline Band D. The gap between them is £775.32 a year.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Barnsley it is £2,325.96 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 70 of them charge less than Barnsley.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Barnsley’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 56%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 86% of the 116,230 homes, and bands E to H hold 6%.
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.