Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Tameside council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,447.21 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,631.47; the dearest, H, pays £4,894.42. 50% of Tameside’s 105,990 homes are in Band A.
Band D costs £2,447.21 a year: £244.72 over 10 payments or £203.93 over 12. 7% of Tameside’s homes are in this band.
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B
C
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F
G
H
Tameside, 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 0.9%, Band G 0.4%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Tameside
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,631.47
£163.15
£135.96
50%
£1,903.39
£190.34
£158.62
19%
£2,175.30
£217.53
£181.28
19%
£2,447.21
£244.72
£203.93
7%
£2,991.03
£299.10
£249.25
4%
£3,534.86
£353.49
£294.57
0.9%
£4,078.68
£407.87
£339.89
0.4%
£4,894.42
£489.44
£407.87
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 Tameside’s figures
Tameside lifted its Band D by £135.41 for 2026/27, taking it to £2,447.21. In percentage terms that is 5.86%, a rise exceeded in only fifteen English councils, while the simple average was 4.78%.
Who receives the money? The council keeps £2,007.38, or 82.0%. Policing takes £285.30 (11.7%) and £153.95 (6.3%) goes to a combined authority, the same pair of amounts charged in nine other councils. Among those ten, Tameside sits in sixth place: Stockport tops the group at £2,618.90, £171.69 above Tameside, and Wigan is lowest at £2,152.68. Policing and the combined authority together account for £439.25, or 17.9% of what a Band D home pays. Tameside has one parish, whose precept works out at £0.58 when spread across the whole of Tameside, and the adult social care precept added to Tameside's council share for 2026/27 is £38.23.
Fractionally over half of Tameside's 105,990 homes, 53,180 in all, sit in Band A, where the yearly charge is £1,631.47. With Band B at 18.6% and Band C at 19.2%, the three lowest bands take in 87.9% of Tameside's housing. Band D itself contains 7,330 homes, just 6.9%. Above it the numbers dwindle quickly: Band H counts only 40 properties.
Band D, the benchmark used in every comparison, therefore describes only a small minority of Tameside homes. Tameside's Band H, at the far end, costs £3,262.95 a year more than its Band A.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Tameside it is £2,447.21 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 155 of them charge less than Tameside.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Tameside’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 50%, is in Band A. Bands A to C together hold 88% of the 105,990 homes, and bands E to H hold 5%.
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.