Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Nottingham council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,755.39 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,836.93; the dearest, H, pays £5,510.78. 62% of Nottingham’s 148,400 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,755.39 a year: £275.54 over 10 payments or £229.62 over 12. 5% of Nottingham’s homes are in this band.
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H
Nottingham, 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 0.8%, Band G 0.5%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Nottingham
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,836.93
£183.69
£153.08
62%
£2,143.08
£214.31
£178.59
17%
£2,449.24
£244.92
£204.10
12%
£2,755.39
£275.54
£229.62
5%
£3,367.70
£336.77
£280.64
2%
£3,980.01
£398.00
£331.67
0.8%
£4,592.32
£459.23
£382.69
0.5%
£5,510.78
£551.08
£459.23
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 Nottingham’s figures
Only 2 English councils set a higher Band D than Nottingham. The city's 2026/27 figure is £2,755.39, placing it 3rd out of 296, a full 14.3% above the simple mean of English councils, £2,410.97.
The 2026/27 increase was comparatively modest, though. Starting from £2,656.19, Band D climbed £99.20 (3.7%); sorted by percentage rise, Nottingham sits only 270th, against a simple English average of 4.8%.
Few Nottingham homes are actually in Band D. Of the city's 148,400 homes, Band A holds 92,640: 62.4%, the 3rd highest share in England. Band D accounts for just 5.3%. A household in Band A owes £1,836.93 for 2026/27, one in Band B £2,143.08, and Band C, the third most common band with 11.7% of homes, costs £2,449.24. Even that lowest Nottingham band costs more than Band D does in 5 councils elsewhere; at the top, Band H is charged £5,510.78, £3,673.85 more than Band A.
Table 10 gives the city council £2,342.08 (85.0%) of Band D, with £311.10 for policing, which is 11.3%, and £102.21 for fire. With 148,400 homes in all, Nottingham is the 35th largest English council by housing stock. No parish precept is averaged in, because Nottingham has no parishes.
The council's return also shows a tax base of 72,063 Band D equivalents, less than half the number of homes listed, and assumes 98% collection.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Nottingham it is £2,755.39 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 293 of them charge less than Nottingham.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Nottingham’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 62%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 92% of the 148,400 homes, and bands E to H hold 3%.
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.