Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Sheffield council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,510.16 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,673.44; the dearest, H, pays £5,020.32. 58% of Sheffield’s 263,910 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,510.16 a year: £251.02 over 10 payments or £209.18 over 12. 6% of Sheffield’s homes are in this band.
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Sheffield, 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 2%, Band G 1%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Sheffield
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,673.44
£167.34
£139.45
58%
£1,952.35
£195.24
£162.70
16%
£2,231.25
£223.13
£185.94
13%
£2,510.16
£251.02
£209.18
6%
£3,067.97
£306.80
£255.66
4%
£3,625.79
£362.58
£302.15
2%
£4,183.60
£418.36
£348.63
1%
£5,020.32
£502.03
£418.36
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 Sheffield’s figures
In Sheffield, Band A is by far the most common council tax band. The city has 263,910 homes on the valuation list and 153,020 of them, 58.0%, are in that lowest band; only 11 English councils have a higher proportion. Band B follows a long way behind with 16.3%, and Band C on 12.7%. Bands E to H together amount to 17,440 homes.
So while Band D is the yardstick for comparing councils, the band that covers most Sheffield homes is Band A, charged £1,673.44 for 2026/27. Band D itself costs £2,510.16, placing the city 89th of 296, 4.1% above England's simple average of £2,410.97. Over 2025/26 the bill rose by £121.40, or 5.1%.
Sheffield's Band D is split between the city council (£2,130.23, 84.9%), policing (£280.04) and the fire service (£95.05). The city also contains 3 parishes. Spread across all of Sheffield their precepts come to only £4.84 on Band D, but since that is an average, a home within one of those parishes may face a slightly different total from the published figure.
Sheffield's return assumes 95.5% collection on a base of 149,976 Band D equivalents, the 14th largest in England. By housing stock alone the city is bigger still, 6th among English councils, and its Band A charge is higher than the Band D of 5 of them.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Sheffield it is £2,510.16 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 207 of them charge less than Sheffield.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Sheffield’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 58%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 87% of the 263,910 homes, and bands E to H hold 7%.
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.