Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Stoke-on-Trent council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,183.12 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,455.41; the dearest, H, pays £4,366.24. 59% of Stoke-on-Trent’s 120,450 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,183.12 a year: £218.31 over 10 payments or £181.93 over 12. 4% of Stoke-on-Trent’s homes are in this band.
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Stoke-on-Trent, 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 0.5%, Band G 0.2%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Stoke-on-Trent
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,455.41
£145.54
£121.28
59%
£1,697.98
£169.80
£141.50
21%
£1,940.55
£194.06
£161.71
13%
£2,183.12
£218.31
£181.93
4%
£2,668.26
£266.83
£222.36
2%
£3,153.40
£315.34
£262.78
0.5%
£3,638.53
£363.85
£303.21
0.2%
£4,366.24
£436.62
£363.85
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 Stoke-on-Trent’s figures
Stoke-on-Trent has one of the highest proportions of Band A homes in England. Of its 120,450 properties, 70,860, or 59%, are in the lowest band, and only nine English councils outdo it on that measure. For those homes the 2026/27 bill averages £1,455.41, and three English councils ask less than that for a Band D home.
The Band D figure used in comparisons, £2,183.12, therefore describes relatively few households here: 5,130 properties are in that band, barely more than four in every hundred. Last year it was £2,078.34, so the increase is £104.78, or 5.0%. Stoke-on-Trent ranks 274th of 296 in England, meaning 22 council areas set a lower Band D.
Splitting the Band D sum, the city council's own share is £1,783.78, or 81.7%. The police precept of £302.57 accounts for 13.9%, and only 25 English areas give the police a larger share of Band D. Fire takes £96.77, 4.4%. There is no parish element at all.
After Band A, the next largest group is Band B with 25,690 properties, billed £1,697.98 on average, followed by Band C with 15,950, where the average bill is £1,940.55. Bands F to H, at the other end, have 820 properties between them.
The weight of Band A pulls the city's tax base down to 69,408.2 Band D equivalents, about 0.58 per property, a ratio that just 16 English areas undercut. Collection is planned at 99%.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Stoke-on-Trent it is £2,183.12 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 22 of them charge less than Stoke-on-Trent.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Stoke-on-Trent’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 59%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 93% of the 120,450 homes, and bands E to H hold 2%.
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.