Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Sandwell council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,244.46 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,496.31; the dearest, H, pays £4,488.92. 43% of Sandwell’s 137,180 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,244.46 a year: £224.45 over 10 payments or £187.04 over 12. 6% of Sandwell’s homes are in this band.
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Sandwell, 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 0.4%, Band G under 0.1%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Sandwell
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,496.31
£149.63
£124.69
43%
£1,745.69
£174.57
£145.47
33%
£1,995.08
£199.51
£166.26
16%
£2,244.46
£224.45
£187.04
6%
£2,743.23
£274.32
£228.60
2%
£3,242.00
£324.20
£270.17
0.4%
£3,740.77
£374.08
£311.73
under 0.1%
£4,488.92
£448.89
£374.08
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 Sandwell’s figures
Few places in England have housing so concentrated in the lowest bands as Sandwell. Of 137,180 homes, 91.7% are in bands A to C, a share topped by only two English councils. Band B is unusually large, at 44,730 homes or 32.6%; just nine councils have a bigger share in that band. Band A holds 59,380 (43.3%), Band D 7,700 (5.6%), and the four upper bands only 2.7%, with 40 Band H homes.
Sandwell's Band A charge, the one applying to the largest group of its homes, is £1,496.31. Sandwell's Band D has reached £2,244.46 after a £111.01 increase (5.20%); just 30 English councils ask less.
Both outside charges are at the low end nationally. Sandwell's £244.50 police precept is above only six councils' amounts outside London, and its £85.19 fire precept is the lowest separate fire precept in the table, a floor shared with six other councils. Among the seven with that pairing, Sandwell ranks fifth by Band D. Sandwell's own council retains £1,914.77, roughly 85p of each pound, including £36.48 of adult social care precept added for 2026/27, and Table 10 lists no parishes here.
Among the seven councils that share Sandwell's police and fire figures, Walsall is the dearest at £2,627.48 and Dudley the cheapest at £2,144.84. Together, the two outside bodies take £329.69, or 14.7% of the Band D figure. A Band H bill in Sandwell is £4,488.92 for the year, exactly twice Band D.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Sandwell it is £2,244.46 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 30 of them charge less than Sandwell.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Sandwell’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 43%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 92% of the 137,180 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.