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York

A unitary authority in Yorkshire and the Humber.

How much is council tax in York in 2026/27?

Choose your band for the published yearly charge, before discounts.

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Band A, 2026/27, for the year £1,524.77 £152.48 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band A up £74.74 (5.2%) £1,450.03 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Band B, 2026/27, for the year £1,778.89 £177.89 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band B up £87.18 (5.2%) £1,691.71 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Band C, 2026/27, for the year £2,033.02 £203.30 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band C up £99.64 (5.2%) £1,933.38 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Band D, 2026/27, for the year £2,287.15 £228.72 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band D up £112.10 (5.2%) £2,175.05 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Band E, 2026/27, for the year £2,795.41 £279.54 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band E up £137.02 (5.2%) £2,658.39 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Band F, 2026/27, for the year £3,303.66 £330.37 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band F up £161.92 (5.2%) £3,141.74 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Band G, 2026/27, for the year £3,811.92 £381.19 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band G up £186.84 (5.2%) £3,625.08 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Band H, 2026/27, for the year £4,574.30 £457.43 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band H up £224.20 (5.2%) £4,350.10 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Monthly equivalents divide the annual charge by ten and round to pennies. Actual bill instalments can differ.

Every band includes the share of every body that sets council tax here, such as the police and, where they exist, the county council, the fire authority and parish councils, with parish precepts as an average. A home in a parish with its own precept pays a different amount, and discounts such as the single person discount are not taken off.

York council area
Source: Office for National Statistics, May 2026.

Illustrative area boundary. Parish charges and individual property bands vary within it.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Licensed under OGL v3.0.

Map detail

England features only. ArcGIS generalisation tolerance 0.001 degrees, five decimal places. Illustrative boundaries, not property or billing boundaries. Joined by exact LAD26CD only.

Who receives your council tax

Band D bill breakdown in York

These are the published 2026/27 area averages. Parish charges are averaged into the council line. They are already included in the total and must not be added again.

York: published Band D components, 2026/27
Part of the billCharging bodyAnnual Band D
Council, including average local preceptsYork£1,834.67
County or GLANo separate precept reported£0.00
PoliceYork and North Yorkshire Combined Authority - PCC functions£335.86
FireNo separate precept reported£0.00
Combined authorityYork and North Yorkshire Combined Authority - General functions£116.62
Published area average, including all precepts£2,287.15

Adult social care is included in council charges. Police and fire may be funded within another line, including a combined-authority or GLA charge. A zero separate line does not mean the service is absent. The named bodies come from MHCLG's billing-area mapping for this year.

The council's own Band D, excluding local precepts, is £1,817.43. This is a separate measure, not an additional charge.

Source: Council tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027: Table 10, Data_Billing and Precepting_Bodies. Retrieved 2026-10-05. Download data and checksums.

Parish and local precepts in York

31 records in the national parish return, including any ceased bodies. These are individual Band D local charges, not full bills. Other property bands are not inferred. Match the charging locality to your council bill.

Do not add these amounts to the area average above: that already includes average local precepts. Grouped parishes and charter trustees can have overlapping charging areas. A postcode alone cannot establish every charge on a property.

All 31 records shown.

York: local Band D precepts as reported in the 2026/27 return
Parish or local body2025/262026/27Annual change
Acaster MalbisPrecepting parish£17.31£17.02-£0.29
Askham BryanPrecepting parish£53.65£52.73-£0.92
Askham RichardPrecepting parish£59.07£61.10+£2.03
BishopthorpePrecepting parish£27.09£29.29+£2.20
Clifton WithoutPrecepting parish£20.14£21.02+£0.88
CopmanthorpePrecepting parish£24.25£24.13-£0.12
DeightonPrecepting parish£33.49£38.02+£4.53
DunningtonPrecepting parish£34.40£39.18+£4.78
EarswickPrecepting parish£65.67£67.16+£1.49
ElvingtonPrecepting parish£28.24£29.92+£1.68
FulfordPrecepting parish£47.47£56.11+£8.64
HaxbyPrecepting parish£55.95£67.03+£11.08
HeslingtonPrecepting parish£56.39£63.92+£7.53
HessayPrecepting parish£37.30£41.62+£4.32
Heworth WithoutPrecepting parish£25.39£25.49+£0.10
HoltbyPrecepting parish£16.96£33.85+£16.89
HuntingtonPrecepting parish£51.37£53.36+£1.99
KexbyPrecepting parish£40.26£39.87-£0.39
MurtonPrecepting parish£16.52£16.31-£0.21
NaburnPrecepting parish£24.46£24.44-£0.02
Nether PoppletonPrecepting parish£41.30£40.67-£0.63
New EarswickPrecepting parish£31.53£32.40+£0.87
OsbaldwickPrecepting parish£16.99£23.35+£6.36
RawcliffePrecepting parish£23.51£24.41+£0.90
Rufforth with KnaptonPrecepting parish£29.10£30.72+£1.62
SkeltonPrecepting parish£41.77£41.76-£0.01
Stockton on the ForestPrecepting parish£20.60£22.13+£1.53
Strensall with TowthorpePrecepting parish£24.74£24.50-£0.24
Upper PoppletonPrecepting parish£43.89£37.35-£6.54
WheldrakePrecepting parish£46.92£50.24+£3.32
WiggintonPrecepting parish£50.58£53.08+£2.50

Annual change is this year's reported charge minus the previous year's charge on the same source row. Missing and ceased entries remain distinct from published zero charges. A negative precept is retained where published.

Source: Council Tax statistics for town and parish councils in England: 2026 to 2027, Parish_Level_Data and Notes. Retrieved 2026-10-05. Download the national parish data, including precept income and tax bases.

How does Band D in York compare?

England average area Band D, 2026/27 £2,392 up 4.9% on 2025/26

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 7, published 25 March 2026.

Average area Band D for unitary areas, 2026/27 £2,490 up 5.3% on 2025/26

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 7, published 25 March 2026.

Both averages include parish and adult social care precepts, the same basis as the York figure. Band D for every council in Yorkshire and the Humber.

How has Band D in York changed?

2024/25: £2,053.12 £2,053.12 2024/25 2025/26: £2,175.05 £2,175.05 2025/26 2026/27: £2,287.15 £2,287.15 2026/27

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9 each year, linked in the table, published 25 March 2026.

Cash figures, not adjusted for inflation. Includes average parish precepts.

Area Band D in York, as published each year
YearBand DSource
2024/25 £2,053.12 MHCLG Table 8
2025/26 £2,175.05 MHCLG Table 9
2026/27 £2,287.15 MHCLG Table 9

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9 each year, linked in the table, published 25 March 2026.

Every band over time

York area charges, including average parish precepts
Band2024/252025/262026/27Two-year change
A£1,368.75£1,450.03£1,524.77£156.02
B£1,596.87£1,691.71£1,778.89£182.02
C£1,825.00£1,933.38£2,033.02£208.02
D£2,053.12£2,175.05£2,287.15£234.03
E£2,509.37£2,658.39£2,795.41£286.04
F£2,965.62£3,141.74£3,303.66£338.04
G£3,421.87£3,625.08£3,811.92£390.05
H£4,106.24£4,350.10£4,574.30£468.06

Sources: MHCLG 2024/25 · MHCLG 2025/26 · MHCLG 2026/27 · Change calculated from the two published charges. Nominal amounts, before discounts.

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Long-term Band D history

The national live table holds 34 published area figures for York, from 1993/94 to 2026/27. This series is generally rounded to whole pounds, so it can differ from the penny figures in the recent band tables.

£516 to £2,287(+343.2% in cash terms)

Not adjusted for inflation. A change in services or council structure can affect comparisons. Missing years stay missing; we do not join predecessor councils ourselves. MHCLG carries forward predecessor-area history only where its published series does so, including some district-to-unitary changes with unchanged boundaries.

View the full Band D history and separate council shares
York: published Band D history, displayed pounds
YearWhole-area averageCouncil excluding parishesCouncil including average parishes
1993/94£516UnavailableUnavailable
1994/95£550UnavailableUnavailable
1995/96£583UnavailableUnavailable
1996/97£581£529£536
1997/98£605£552£555
1998/99£672£621£624
1999/00£695£639£642
2000/01£748£687£691
2001/02£797£728£734
2002/03£874£778£785
2003/04£988£825£832
2004/05£1,078£849£856
2005/06£1,127£891£899
2006/07£1,182£940£948
2007/08£1,232£982£990
2008/09£1,289£1,029£1,037
2009/10£1,331£1,062£1,071
2010/11£1,366£1,091£1,100
2011/12£1,366£1,091£1,100
2012/13£1,398£1,122£1,132
2013/14£1,420£1,144£1,153
2014/15£1,447£1,166£1,175
2015/16£1,453£1,166£1,176
2016/17£1,494£1,201£1,211
2017/18£1,544£1,245£1,256
2018/19£1,601£1,288£1,299
2019/20£1,668£1,330£1,341
2020/21£1,734£1,383£1,395
2021/22£1,810£1,452£1,464
2022/23£1,865£1,496£1,508
2023/24£1,960£1,570£1,584
2024/25£2,053£1,649£1,663
2025/26£2,175£1,731£1,747
2026/27£2,287£1,817£1,835

The council-share columns are alternative measures, not additions to the whole-area figure. The excluding-parishes series begins in 1996/97. A council's own share can change when responsibilities transfer even where its area remains the same.

Source: Band D Council Tax figures 1993 onwards, revised April 2026, Area_CT, exc_PP and inc_PP. Download the historical series. Changes calculated from the displayed source values.

Who sets council tax in York?

The figures below show each council's own share and its published annual change. The national breakdown above also identifies police, fire and combined-authority charges for this billing area.

York council's own Band D, 2026/27 £1,817.43 up 4.99% on 2025/26, as published

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 8a, published 25 March 2026.

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