Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Havering council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,424.66 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,616.44; the dearest, H, pays £4,849.32. 33% of Havering’s 109,140 homes are in Band D.
Band D costs £2,424.66 a year: £242.47 over 10 payments or £202.06 over 12. 33% of Havering’s homes are in this band.
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B
C
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G
H
Havering, 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 G 3%, Band H 0.4% of homes.
Every band in Havering
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,616.44
£161.64
£134.70
5%
£1,885.85
£188.59
£157.15
10%
£2,155.25
£215.53
£179.60
28%
£2,424.66
£242.47
£202.06
33%
£2,963.47
£296.35
£246.96
15%
£3,502.29
£350.23
£291.86
6%
£4,041.10
£404.11
£336.76
3%
£4,849.32
£484.93
£404.11
0.4%
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 Havering’s figures
Only two names appear on a Havering Band D bill once Table 10 has split it: the local council, with £1,914.15, and the Greater London Authority, with £510.51. Those come to 78.9% and 21.1% of the £2,424.66 total. London's regional precept pays for the Metropolitan Police and the capital's fire brigade, which is why Havering residents see no police or fire line of their own; the table finds no parish councils to add either.
Thirty-two councils carry that same £510.51. Sorted from dearest to cheapest Band D, Havering lands fifth among them, and since the GLA amount is the same for all of them, that position comes from the local share, which itself includes the £36.46 adult social care precept raised on top for 2026/27.
Housing here clusters in the middle of the scale rather than at the bottom. Band D, usually just a yardstick, is also the most populated band: 36,270 homes out of 109,140, or 33.2%. Only four councils anywhere in England have a larger fraction of their stock in Band D. Band C, the second biggest group, follows at 27.5% and is charged £2,155.25. The two cheapest bands together hold a modest 15.0%, while E through H account for 24.2%.
Measured against 2025/26, the Band D charge climbed £111.11, which is 4.8%, against a simple average rise of 4.78% across England's 296 councils; against their simple average Band D of £2,410.97, Havering is £13.69 dearer. Band A, at £1,616.44, covers 5,280 Havering homes.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Havering it is £2,424.66 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 137 of them charge less than Havering.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Havering’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 33%, is in Band D. Bands A to C together hold 43% of the 109,140 homes, and bands E to H hold 24%.
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.