Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Knowsley council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,488.25 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,658.83; the dearest, H, pays £4,976.50. 53% of Knowsley’s 72,610 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,488.25 a year: £248.83 over 10 payments or £207.35 over 12. 7% of Knowsley’s homes are in this band.
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Knowsley, 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 0.5%, Band G 0.2%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Knowsley
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,658.83
£165.88
£138.24
53%
£1,935.31
£193.53
£161.28
21%
£2,211.78
£221.18
£184.32
15%
£2,488.25
£248.83
£207.35
7%
£3,041.19
£304.12
£253.43
3%
£3,594.14
£359.41
£299.51
0.5%
£4,147.08
£414.71
£345.59
0.2%
£4,976.50
£497.65
£414.71
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 Knowsley’s figures
Five pieces make up a Knowsley Band D bill of £2,488.25. The largest by far is the council's, £2,028.94, about 81.5% of it; within that sits £38.65, the adult social care precept Knowsley added for 2026/27. Next in size is policing, £293.97, then fire, £101.25; trailing behind is a combined authority charge of £24.00. Knowsley's five parishes bring an average of £40.09.
Knowsley shares its three outside charges, worth £419.22 together, with Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and Wirral. Within the five-council group, Knowsley's Band D is the second lowest: only St Helens charges less.
The Band D headline describes few Knowsley homes. Over half of Knowsley's 72,610 properties (38,430) belong to Band A, whose charge this year is £1,658.83, and almost nine in ten sit somewhere in bands A to C. Just 5,100 homes, 7.0%, are Band D. Barely 500 properties reach bands F, G or H: 340, 140 and 20.
Taken at Band D, the charge rose £116.97, or 4.93%, on 2025/26. As everywhere in England, Knowsley's Band A equals two thirds of its Band D.
Set against its partners, Knowsley trails Liverpool's £2,673.59 by £185.34 and stays £84.87 above St Helens at £2,403.38. Parish precepts weigh more here than in Sefton: at £40.09, Knowsley's parish average is more than twice Sefton's £18.49. The combined authority's £24.00, by contrast, is under 1% of the bill.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Knowsley it is £2,488.25 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 191 of them charge less than Knowsley.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Knowsley’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 53%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 89% of the 72,610 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.