Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Cheshire East council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,454.87 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,636.58; the dearest, H, pays £4,909.74. 21% of Cheshire East’s 192,850 homes are in Band B.
Band D costs £2,454.87 a year: £245.49 over 10 payments or £204.57 over 12. 15% of Cheshire East’s homes are in this band.
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A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Cheshire East, 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 H 1% of homes.
Every band in Cheshire East
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,636.58
£163.66
£136.38
17%
£1,909.34
£190.93
£159.11
21%
£2,182.11
£218.21
£181.84
20%
£2,454.87
£245.49
£204.57
15%
£3,000.40
£300.04
£250.03
12%
£3,545.92
£354.59
£295.49
8%
£4,091.45
£409.15
£340.95
7%
£4,909.74
£490.97
£409.15
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 Cheshire East’s figures
Cheshire East has no dominant band. Band B is the largest, yet it holds only 20.6% of the 192,850 homes listed (39,710); Band C (19.7%) and Band A (16.5%) are not far behind, and Band D has 14.8%. The upper end is well populated too: 13,270 homes are in Band G and 2,020 in Band H.
Parishes are numerous. Table 10 records 106 of them across the council area, the 26th highest number in England, and their precepts average £83.39 on Band D, 3.4% of the bill. That average conceals variation: in a particular parish the figure may come out above or below the published Band D.
For 2026/27 that published Band D is £2,454.87, which sits 1.8% over the simple mean of English councils and makes Cheshire East 135th of 296. In 2025/26 it was £2,332.61, so the bill went up by £122.26 (5.2%), the 37th biggest rise in England.
Excluding parishes, the money is shared by the council (£1,975.95, 80.5% of Band D), the police (£295.44) and fire and rescue (£100.09). Charges this year run from £1,636.58 in Band A to £4,909.74 in Band H, with Band B, the commonest, at £1,909.34. Band G alone accounts for 6.9% of homes and is billed £4,091.45.
With 165,550 Band D equivalents, Cheshire East's tax base is the 8th largest in England, and the council plans on 99% collection, a level 31 English councils exceed.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Cheshire East it is £2,454.87 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 161 of them charge less than Cheshire East.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Cheshire East’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 21%, is in Band B. Bands A to C together hold 57% of the 192,850 homes, and bands E to H hold 28%.
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.