Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Gateshead council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,715.81 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,810.54; the dearest, H, pays £5,431.62. 58% of Gateshead’s 95,940 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,715.81 a year: £271.58 over 10 payments or £226.32 over 12. 6% of Gateshead’s homes are in this band.
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Gateshead, 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 1.0%, Band G 0.4%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Gateshead
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,810.54
£181.05
£150.88
58%
£2,112.30
£211.23
£176.03
14%
£2,414.05
£241.41
£201.17
17%
£2,715.81
£271.58
£226.32
6%
£3,319.32
£331.93
£276.61
3%
£3,922.84
£392.28
£326.90
1.0%
£4,526.35
£452.64
£377.20
0.4%
£5,431.62
£543.16
£452.64
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 Gateshead’s figures
Of every pound in Gateshead's Band D, roughly 88p stays with the council itself. Table 10 puts that portion at £2,396.07 out of £2,715.81, leaving £214.34 to the police and £105.11 to the fire authority. No English council outside London records a smaller police figure, and five other rows carry the identical £214.34.
Folded into Gateshead's own portion is £45.64 of adult social care precept added for 2026/27, the biggest such sum among the 132 councils where Table 10 states one. Parish money barely registers: Gateshead has a single parish, and averaged across every Band D home its precept comes to £0.29.
After a jump of £137.35, or 5.3%, on 2025/26, only five councils in England ask more for Band D; paid in the usual ten monthly instalments, that increase adds about £13.74 a month. That headline describes very few Gateshead households, though. Of 95,940 homes, 56,080 sit in Band A, a 58.5% share that just ten English councils exceed, and bands A and B combined reach 72.4%. Band D properties make up 6.4%, and Band H, priced at £5,431.62, contains 50 homes in total.
So the figure that applies to the largest group of Gateshead homes is the Band A charge of £1,810.54, which is Band D cut by a third. Between the cheapest and the dearest band the gap is £3,621.08 a year.
Behind those sums lies a tax base of 55,104.61 Band D equivalents, set with an expectation of collecting 98%.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Gateshead it is £2,715.81 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 290 of them charge less than Gateshead.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Gateshead’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 58%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 89% of the 95,940 homes, and bands E to H hold 4%.
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.