Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Leicester council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,528.75 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,685.83; the dearest, H, pays £5,057.50. 60% of Leicester’s 145,670 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,528.75 a year: £252.88 over 10 payments or £210.73 over 12. 5% of Leicester’s homes are in this band.
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Leicester, 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 E 2%, Band F 1%, Band G 0.4%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Leicester
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,685.83
£168.58
£140.49
60%
£1,966.81
£196.68
£163.90
20%
£2,247.78
£224.78
£187.32
12%
£2,528.75
£252.88
£210.73
5%
£3,090.69
£309.07
£257.56
2%
£3,652.64
£365.26
£304.39
1%
£4,214.58
£421.46
£351.22
0.4%
£5,057.50
£505.75
£421.46
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 Leicester’s figures
Band A dominates Leicester's housing to a degree matched in few places. It takes in 86,800 of Leicester's 145,670 properties, almost three in five, and only five English councils go higher on that measure. Add bands B and C and nine homes in ten fall in the three cheapest bands (90.9%). Band D, the yardstick, covers just 7,400 homes, about one in twenty; above it, bands E to H hold a mere 4.0%, and Band H only 60 properties.
So the figure most Leicester households actually meet is the Band A charge, £1,685.83 for 2026/27, rather than Band D at £2,528.75. That Band D amount went up £121.03 (5.03%) on the year before.
Of it, Leicester's council sets £2,121.87, 84p or so in every pound, with £40.41 recorded as the 2026/27 adult social care precept element, a heading under which only 23 councils record more. Leicester's police precept of £315.23 outstrips that of 206 among the 263 councils listing one, and fire adds £91.65. Rutland pays exactly the same two outside amounts, yet its Band D, £2,737.58, is £208.83 above Leicester's; with police and fire identical, that gap comes from council and parish shares. No parishes appear in Leicester's row.
Weighed against those 145,670 properties, Leicester's tax base amounts to 83,867 Band D equivalents. Leicester's Band H homes, all 60 of them, are billed £5,057.50, exactly double Band D, and the step from Band A to Band B adds £280.98 a year.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Leicester it is £2,528.75 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 221 of them charge less than Leicester.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Leicester’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 60%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 91% of the 145,670 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.