Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Waltham Forest council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,386.96 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,591.31; the dearest, H, pays £4,773.92. 35% of Waltham Forest’s 111,780 homes are in Band C.
Band D costs £2,386.96 a year: £238.70 over 10 payments or £198.91 over 12. 21% of Waltham Forest’s homes are in this band.
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B
C
D
E
F
G
H
Waltham Forest, 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 2%, Band G 0.4%, Band H under 0.1% of homes.
Every band in Waltham Forest
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,591.31
£159.13
£132.61
5%
£1,856.52
£185.65
£154.71
29%
£2,121.74
£212.17
£176.81
35%
£2,386.96
£238.70
£198.91
21%
£2,917.40
£291.74
£243.12
8%
£3,447.83
£344.78
£287.32
2%
£3,978.27
£397.83
£331.52
0.4%
£4,773.92
£477.39
£397.83
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 Waltham Forest’s figures
Bands B and C cover nearly two thirds of homes in Waltham Forest: 32,850 and 39,510 respectively, out of 111,780 recorded for the borough. A Band B home there is billed £1,856.52 for 2026/27 and a Band C home £2,121.74. Band D accounts for 23,470 properties; Band A for only 5,250.
Band D, at £2,386.96, ranks sixth among the 32 London boroughs. Across all 296 English councils it is 185th, £24.01 under the simple average. The year-on-year increase is £109.31, or 4.8%, in line with most London boroughs this year. Only five boroughs ask more for Band D: Kingston upon Thames, Croydon, Harrow, Richmond upon Thames and Havering.
Waltham Forest Council claims £1,876.45 of the Band D charge, or 78.6%, and the Greater London Authority £510.51, a budget that covers the Metropolitan Police alongside London's firefighters. That GLA part works out at 21.4% of the total here, and the borough has no parish councils.
Large, high-band properties are rare. Only 2,320 sit in bands F to H, about 2% of the list, and a mere 30 reach Band H, billed £4,773.92 a year on average. Compared with Westminster or Hammersmith and Fulham, where the upper bands are crowded, Waltham Forest's valuations are concentrated well below Band D: bands A to C hold almost seven homes in ten. Band E's 8,390 properties pay an average of £2,917.40.
The borough budgets for 97.5% collection, and its tax base totals 82,991 when every home is weighted against Band D.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Waltham Forest it is £2,386.96 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 111 of them charge less than Waltham Forest.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Waltham Forest’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 35%, is in Band C. Bands A to C together hold 69% of the 111,780 homes, and bands E to H hold 10%.
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.