Glasgow City council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £1,706.00 a year

The cheapest band, A, pays £1,137.33; the dearest, H, pays £4,179.70. 26% of Glasgow City’s 297,310 homes are in Band B.

Band D costs £1,706.00 a year: £170.60 over 10 payments or £142.17 over 12. 15% of Glasgow City’s homes are in this band.

Glasgow City, 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 (chargeable dwellings, September 2026, Scottish Government). Narrow bands are kept visible.

Too narrow to draw to scale, so shown at a minimum width: Band G 2%, Band H 0.2% of homes.

Every band in Glasgow City

A year	Over 10 payments	Over 12 payments	Homes
£1,137.33	£113.73	£94.78	18%
£1,326.89	£132.69	£110.57	26%
£1,516.44	£151.64	£126.37	23%
£1,706.00	£170.60	£142.17	15%
£2,241.49	£224.15	£186.79	11%
£2,772.25	£277.23	£231.02	5%
£3,340.92	£334.09	£278.41	2%
£4,179.70	£417.97	£348.31	0.2%

Water and sewerage charges are not included in these amounts. Homes are chargeable dwellings as the Scottish Government counts them, not the Valuation Office Agency count of properties used in England and Wales. Monthly figures divide the yearly charge, rounded to the penny.

About Glasgow City’s figures

A Band D home in Glasgow City is charged £1,706.00 for 2026/27, £95.00 more than the £1,611.00 of 2025/26, a rise of 5.9%. The city now sits 10th among Scotland's 32 councils, 2.7% above their simple average of £1,661.92.

Ten years ago its position was higher. In 2016/17 Glasgow City's Band D was £1,213.00, the 2nd highest in Scotland. It has grown by 40.6% since then, while the average of the 32 councils went from £1,137.30 to £1,661.92, up 46.1%. Just 4 councils have seen a smaller ten-year increase.

The Scottish Government counts 297,310 chargeable dwellings in the city. Band B is the largest group, with 77,052 (25.9%), ahead of Band C at 23.4%; with Band A added, the three lowest bands take in 67.7% of the total. Only 650 dwellings are in Band H.

Scotland's upper bands are steeper than England's. Glasgow City's Band H, £4,179.70, is 2.45 times its Band D, whereas in the English tables Band H is always exactly twice Band D, and Band E here is 1.31 times Band D. Water and sewerage charges are left out of every amount on this page, and the band of a particular address is the one in the local assessor's valuation list, searchable through the Scottish Assessors Association.

Source: Scottish Government, Council tax datasets, accessed 4 November 2026.

How Glasgow City’s Band D compares

Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Glasgow City it is £1,706.00 a year. Across the 32 councils in Scotland the simple average of Band D is £1,661.92, and 22 of them charge less than Glasgow City.

The dearest Band D in Scotland is Midlothian at £1,816.16; the cheapest is South Lanarkshire at £1,468.47.

Where Glasgow City’s homes sit

The biggest share of homes, 26%, is in Band B. Bands A to C together hold 68% of the 297,310 homes, and bands E to H hold 18%.

Homes are counted as: chargeable dwellings, September 2026, Scottish Government.

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.

Band D in every council