Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Westminster council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £1,049.55 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £699.70; the dearest, H, pays £2,099.10. 19% of Westminster’s 132,030 homes are in Band G.
Band D costs £1,049.55 a year: £104.96 over 10 payments or £87.46 over 12. 17% of Westminster’s homes are in this band.
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G
H
Westminster, 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 A 1% of homes.
Every band in Westminster
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£699.70
£69.97
£58.31
1%
£816.32
£81.63
£68.03
5%
£932.93
£93.29
£77.74
12%
£1,049.55
£104.96
£87.46
17%
£1,282.78
£128.28
£106.90
18%
£1,516.02
£151.60
£126.34
15%
£1,749.25
£174.93
£145.77
19%
£2,099.10
£209.91
£174.93
13%
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 Westminster’s figures
Westminster's average Band D for 2026/27 is £1,049.55, the second lowest anywhere in England; out of 296 council areas only Wandsworth charges less. The rise on 2025/26 was £30.55, or 3.0%.
Almost half of each bill goes elsewhere. The Greater London Authority takes £510.51, 48.6% of Band D, and that precept pays for the capital's police force, the Metropolitan Police, and for its fire service. The council's own element is £537.74, barely more than the GLA sum. A single parish precept is also recorded, adding £1.30 when spread over the whole city.
Westminster's homes sit high up the valuation scale. The most common band is G, as in only one other English council area, with 24,630 of 132,030 properties, closely followed by E with 24,360, while 17,280, or 13%, are in Band H. Only one other council area in England has a bigger proportion of its homes in that top band. Even so, the average Band H charge here, £2,099.10, is below the Band D charge in 283 of the 296 English areas. Band A, at the opposite extreme, has just 1,640 properties.
With so many properties valued above Band D, the tax base, 154,862.86 Band D equivalents, is larger than the count of properties on the list. Measured per property, only three English areas have a bigger base. In absolute size it is the 11th largest in England. The council plans on collecting 96% of the tax due.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Westminster it is £1,049.55 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 1 of them charge less than Westminster.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Westminster’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 19%, is in Band G. Bands A to C together hold 18% of the 132,030 homes, and bands E to H hold 65%.
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.