Council tax for 2026/27 · England, Scotland and Wales
Wiltshire council tax 2026/27: a Band D home pays £2,571.78 a year
The cheapest band, A, pays £1,714.52; the dearest, H, pays £5,143.56. 25% of Wiltshire’s 234,170 homes are in Band C.
Band D costs £2,571.78 a year: £257.18 over 10 payments or £214.32 over 12. 18% of Wiltshire’s homes are in this band.
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Wiltshire, 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 0.6% of homes.
Every band in Wiltshire
Band
A year
Over 10 payments
Over 12 payments
Homes
£1,714.52
£171.45
£142.88
12%
£2,000.27
£200.03
£166.69
18%
£2,286.03
£228.60
£190.50
25%
£2,571.78
£257.18
£214.32
18%
£3,143.29
£314.33
£261.94
14%
£3,714.79
£371.48
£309.57
8%
£4,286.30
£428.63
£357.19
5%
£5,143.56
£514.36
£428.63
0.6%
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 Wiltshire’s figures
Wiltshire has 252 parishes, more than any English council area apart from North Yorkshire, Somerset and Dorset. Taken together, their precepts come to an average of £195.41 on a Band D bill for 2026/27, 7.6% of the total. Only Bolsover and Cornwall have a higher average parish charge.
Because that parish sum is averaged across the whole council area, the parish line on a real bill depends on the parish a home is in. The overall average Band D is £2,571.78, up £128.38 (5.3%) on 2025/26, putting Wiltshire 52nd highest of 296 English areas. Setting the parishes aside, the council's own charge is £1,981.15, while police add £298.27 and fire £96.95, the two together making up 15.4% of Band D.
Wiltshire Council's tax base, 196,516.37 expressed as Band D homes, is the seventh largest in England. Its 234,170 properties are spread across many bands: 59,100 are in Band C, the largest group, 43,040 in Band B, 41,450 in Band D and 31,870 in Band E, with 27,080 in Band A.
A Band C home is charged £2,286.03 on average. In Band H, which has 1,380 properties, the average is £5,143.56. At the bottom of the scale, a Band A home pays £1,714.52, and the tax base works out at 0.84 Band D equivalents per property on the list. Collection is expected to reach 99%. For scale, North Yorkshire has 665 parishes, Somerset 328 and Dorset 262.
Band D is the band the national tables use to compare councils. In Wiltshire it is £2,571.78 a year. Across the 296 councils in England the simple average of Band D is £2,410.97, and 244 of them charge less than Wiltshire.
The dearest Band D in England is Dorset at £2,765.02; the cheapest is Wandsworth at £1,028.21.
Where Wiltshire’s homes sit
The biggest share of homes, 25%, is in Band C. Bands A to C together hold 55% of the 234,170 homes, and bands E to H hold 27%.
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.