Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Trafford council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,291.70 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,527.80; the dearest, H, pays £4,583.40. 27% of Trafford’s 104,690 homes are in Band C.
Band D costs £2,291.70 a year: £229.17 over 10 payments or £190.98 over 12. 15% of Trafford’s homes are in this band.
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Trafford, 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 1% of homes.
Every band in Trafford
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,527.80
£152.78
£127.32
19%
£1,782.43
£178.24
£148.54
22%
£2,037.07
£203.71
£169.76
27%
£2,291.70
£229.17
£190.98
15%
£2,800.97
£280.10
£233.41
8%
£3,310.23
£331.02
£275.85
4%
£3,819.50
£381.95
£318.29
4%
£4,583.40
£458.34
£381.95
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 Trafford’s figures
Only Shropshire and North Somerset pushed up Band D more steeply than Trafford this year. Trafford's charge jumped from £2,122.54 to £2,291.70, an increase of £169.16 that works out at 7.97%, while the typical English council, on a simple average, added 4.78%. Spread across the usual ten monthly instalments, Trafford's extra cost comes to roughly £16.92 a month.
Despite that jump, Trafford still sits in the cheaper part of the English league. Forty-eight councils ask less, and Trafford remains £119.27 beneath the simple English average.
Trafford's council retains £1,850.54 of each Band D bill, about four-fifths, with this year's £34.43 of adult social care precept inside it. Policing, at £285.30, and the combined authority, at £153.95, take the rest, two charges that recur penny for penny in nine more councils. Within that group, Stockport stands £327.20 above Trafford and Wigan, the one council lower, £139.02 beneath it. Three of its four parishes set a precept, adding £1.91 more on average.
Trafford's housing reaches into the dearer bands. Band C is the most crowded, with 27,790 homes or just over a quarter, while Band B holds 22.2% and Band A 19.2%. Band D itself covers 15,640 homes. At the top, Trafford counts 4,230 Band G properties and 1,070 Band H ones, the latter billed £4,583.40 for 2026/27, exactly twice the Band D amount. Policing and the combined authority between them claim £439.25 of each Trafford Band D bill, nearly a fifth (19.2%).
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Trafford it is £2,291.70 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 48 of them charge less than Trafford.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Trafford’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 27%, is in Band C. Bands A to C together hold 68% of the 104,690 homes, and bands E to H hold 17%.
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.