Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
North Somerset council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,491.22 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,660.81; the dearest, H, pays £4,982.44. 23% of North Somerset’s 102,800 homes are in Band C.
Band D costs £2,491.22 a year: £249.12 over 10 payments or £207.60 over 12. 18% of North Somerset’s homes are in this band.
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North Somerset, 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 H 0.3% of homes.
Every band in North Somerset
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,660.81
£166.08
£138.40
14%
£1,937.62
£193.76
£161.47
22%
£2,214.42
£221.44
£184.54
23%
£2,491.22
£249.12
£207.60
18%
£3,044.82
£304.48
£253.74
13%
£3,598.43
£359.84
£299.87
7%
£4,152.03
£415.20
£346.00
3%
£4,982.44
£498.24
£415.20
0.3%
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 North Somerset’s figures
Only Shropshire pushed its average Band D up faster than North Somerset this year. Between 2025/26 and 2026/27 the figure moved from £2,294.94 to £2,491.22, an extra £196.28 or 8.55%. Across all 296 English councils the simple average increase was 4.78%, so North Somerset's rise ran at well over one and a half times that pace.
Parish councils explain part of the bill. Table 10 counts 39 of them, and together they add £132.58 to the area-wide Band D, 5.3% of it; just 19 councils show a heavier average parish charge. Since that sum is spread over the whole area, a household's real bill may sit a little above or below the averages printed here, depending on which parish it falls in.
Strip out the parishes and the council itself keeps £1,955.01, a figure that includes the £35.88 adult social care precept added this year. Policing takes £308.20 and the fire authority £95.43. Exactly that pairing of amounts recurs for Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
North Somerset's housing is spread fairly evenly through the lower and middle bands. Band C is the busiest, with 24,050 homes out of 102,800 (23.4%), and A to C together hold 58.7%. Band D itself has 18,240 homes (17.7%), while 290 properties are in Band H. The four top bands hold 23.6% between them.
Spread over the usual ten monthly payments, the rise comes to about £19.63 a month. The police and fire precepts together amount to £403.63, about 16% of the North Somerset total.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In North Somerset it is £2,491.22 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 194 of them charge less than North Somerset.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where North Somerset’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 23%, is in Band C. Bands A to C together hold 59% of the 102,800 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.