Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Stockport council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,618.90 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,745.93; the dearest, H, pays £5,237.80. 24% of Stockport’s 134,360 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,618.90 a year: £261.89 over 10 payments or £218.24 over 12. 15% of Stockport’s homes are in this band.
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Stockport, 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 G 3%, Band H 0.2% of homes.
Every band in Stockport
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,745.93
£174.59
£145.49
24%
£2,036.92
£203.69
£169.74
22%
£2,327.91
£232.79
£193.99
22%
£2,618.90
£261.89
£218.24
15%
£3,200.88
£320.09
£266.74
10%
£3,782.86
£378.29
£315.24
5%
£4,364.83
£436.48
£363.74
3%
£5,237.80
£523.78
£436.48
0.2%
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 Stockport’s figures
In Stockport no single band dominates. Band A holds 32,160 properties, Band B 29,400 and Band C 28,950, each between a fifth and a quarter of the 134,360 on the valuation list. Band D has 19,990 and Band E 13,390, and even Band F reaches 6,600. Band G holds 3,640 homes, billed £4,364.83 on average.
Band D is £2,618.90 for 2026/27, the 24th highest of 296 English council areas and £207.93 above their simple average. Against the £2,475.31 of 2025/26 that is £143.59 more, a 5.8% increase that exceeds the rise in 275 other English areas.
The breakdown has three parts and no parish element: £2,179.65 for the council, £285.30 for the police, and £153.95 for the combined authority. The combined authority precept is shared with nine other councils, Manchester and Oldham among them, and is 5.9% of Band D. No fire line appears in the table for Stockport.
For homes in the lower bands, the 2026/27 averages are £1,745.93 in Band A, £2,036.92 in Band B and £2,327.91 in Band C. Bands D to F, which together hold 39,980 properties, are billed between £2,618.90 and £3,782.86. Oldham, which carries the same police and combined authority amounts, ends up with a slightly lower Band D, £2,602.23, and a far larger share of Band A homes.
Of the ten councils paying the £153.95 combined authority precept, Stockport has the highest Band D and Wigan, at £2,152.68, the lowest. Stockport budgets for 99% collection.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Stockport it is £2,618.90 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 272 of them charge less than Stockport.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Stockport’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 24%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 67% of the 134,360 homes, and bands E to H hold 18%.
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.