Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Ealing council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,138.53 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,425.69; the dearest, H, pays £4,277.06. 32% of Ealing’s 151,150 homes are in Band D.
Band D costs £2,138.53 a year: £213.85 over 10 payments or £178.21 over 12. 32% of Ealing’s homes are in this band.
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C
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H
Ealing, 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 0.7% of homes.
Every band in Ealing
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,425.69
£142.57
£118.81
3%
£1,663.30
£166.33
£138.61
10%
£1,900.92
£190.09
£158.41
25%
£2,138.53
£213.85
£178.21
32%
£2,613.76
£261.38
£217.81
17%
£3,088.99
£308.90
£257.42
7%
£3,564.22
£356.42
£297.02
5%
£4,277.06
£427.71
£356.42
0.7%
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 Ealing’s figures
In Ealing, Band D is more than a reference point: it is also the band most homes are in. 49,070 of the borough's 151,150 properties carry that letter, 32.5% of the stock, and only 7 councils anywhere in England have a bigger proportion. The £2,138.53 set for 2026/27 is therefore the charge for the borough's biggest group of homes.
That charge is up £97.51 from £2,041.02, or 4.8%. Ealing comes 19th in London, a mere 1.2% over the boroughs' mean, while against the simple mean of English councils it comes in 11.3% lower.
Ealing's own slice of Band D is £1,628.02 (76.1%). The other £510.51 (23.9%) is the Greater London Authority's precept, and because the Met's policing and London's firefighting service are included in it, neither turns up as an item on its own. No parish precept is charged.
Band C (24.8%) and Band E (16.8%) rank next after Band D; together the three middle bands, C to E, cover 74.0% of Ealing's housing. Right at the ends, 4,930 homes are Band A and 1,050 are Band H, billed £1,425.69 and £4,277.06 respectively.
Counted in Band D equivalents, Ealing's base is 125,618, 6th in London, and its return expects 98% of bills to be paid.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Ealing it is £2,138.53 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 16 of them charge less than Ealing.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Ealing’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 32%, is in Band D. Bands A to C together hold 38% of the 151,150 homes, and bands E to H hold 29%.
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.