Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Solihull council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,197.26 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,464.84; the dearest, H, pays £4,394.52. 24% of Solihull’s 96,190 homes are in Band C.
Band D costs £2,197.26 a year: £219.73 over 10 payments or £183.11 over 12. 18% of Solihull’s homes are in this band.
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A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Solihull, 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 0.5% of homes.
Every band in Solihull
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,464.84
£146.48
£122.07
15%
£1,708.98
£170.90
£142.42
13%
£1,953.12
£195.31
£162.76
24%
£2,197.26
£219.73
£183.11
18%
£2,685.54
£268.55
£223.80
13%
£3,173.82
£317.38
£264.49
10%
£3,662.10
£366.21
£305.18
6%
£4,394.52
£439.45
£366.21
0.5%
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 Solihull’s figures
Just 25 councils across England ask less for Band D than Solihull. Its 2026/27 figure of £2,197.26 leaves it £213.71 short of the simple average of all 296, even after a 5.24% rise.
Two of the ingredients come from outside the council. Solihull's police line of £244.50 is undercut by only six English councils outside London, and both it and the £85.19 fire precept are copied exactly in the rows for Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall and Wolverhampton. In that cluster of seven, Dudley alone comes out cheaper than Solihull.
Of what remains, £1,843.27 belongs to the council, 83.9% of the whole, with £35.11 of it being the adult social care precept added this year. Sixteen parishes then put on £24.30 on average. Because that parish money is averaged across Solihull, the amounts in the table above are area-wide averages, and the precise bill for one household depends partly on the parish it falls in.
Solihull's housing reaches well up the scale. Almost three homes in ten, 29.0% of the 96,190 counted, are in bands E to H, and 500 of them sit in Band H, billed at £4,394.52. Band C remains the largest single group with 23,410 homes, about a quarter of the total, while 17,740 homes, or 18.4%, are rated Band D.
Put side by side, a low Band D and a sizeable upper tier of homes mean the band letter makes a large difference to what a Solihull household pays: Band H costs three times Band A here, as in every English council.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Solihull it is £2,197.26 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 25 of them charge less than Solihull.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Solihull’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 24%, is in Band C. Bands A to C together hold 53% of the 96,190 homes, and bands E to H hold 29%.
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.