Charge spread
22 authorities · 0.0% of published stock
Band I bills run from £4,697 (Cardiff) to £6,052 (Merthyr Tydfil). The interquartile range is £5,207–£5,645 (median £5,458).
United Kingdom2026-27Band I
Council Tax Band I
Band I exists in Wales only: properties valued Over £424,000 at the 2003 valuation, charged 21/9 of Band D.
Band I in the housing-stock corpus
Housing-stock weight
Rarely the modal band
Band I is not the modal band in any published stock list in this build, yet it still accounts for 0.0% of listed dwellings (5,690 homes).
Wales-only band
Band I exists only in Wales
Band I appears on Welsh stock lists only (5,690 dwellings in this extract across 22 authorities). England and Scotland have no Band I.
Coverage: Wales. England and Scotland have no Band I.
Highest mean Band I by region
- 1. Wales (22 councils) £5,428
Band I · 2026-27
Across 22Welsh councils, Band I runs from £4,697 in Cardiff to £6,052 in Merthyr Tydfil (1.3×). Median £5,458; IQR £5,207–£5,645. Ratio 21/9 of each council's Band D.
- £6,052
- dearest · Merthyr Tydfil
- £4,697
- cheapest · Cardiff
- 1.3×
- dearest vs cheapest
- 0.0%
- of VOA stock
Top 10 dearest councils for Band I, 2026-27
Annual Band charge using each nation's statutory ratio
How Band I ratios and valuations work
The valuation band is fixed; the cash charged is that band's statutory ratio of the Band D rate each council sets. Band I ranges from £4,697.42 in Cardiff to £6,051.73 in Merthyr Tydfil. See the full band schedule and methodology.
Bands A–D share proportions UK-wide; higher bands diverge (Scotland raised E–H from April 2017; Wales adds Band I at 21/9 after the 2003 revaluation).
England and Scotland still band on 1991 values; Wales uses 2003. Mis-banding reviews go to the VOA or Scottish Assessors, see the band challenge guide.
Derived from statutory band ratios (LGFA 1992; Scotland E–H 2017 reform) applied to Band D rates from the Valuation Office Agency and Scottish Assessors.
Dearest Band I authorities
Highest eight Band I bills in this extract (2026-27). Open the disclosure for the full 22-row table.
- 1. Merthyr Tydfil £6,052
- 2. Neath Port Talbot £5,930
- 3. Blaenau Gwent £5,906
- 4. Bridgend £5,782
- 5. Conwy £5,770
- 6. Gwynedd £5,760
- 7. Ceredigion £5,645
- 8. Monmouthshire £5,639
All 22 Band I council charges (2026) - open to filter and sort
No council matches that name.
| Ratio | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Cardiff | Wales | 21/9 | £4,697.42 |
| Caerphilly | Wales | 21/9 | £4,860.05 |
| Newport | Wales | 21/9 | £4,873.12 |
| Torfaen | Wales | 21/9 | £5,029.92 |
| Pembrokeshire | Wales | 21/9 | £5,054.35 |
| Vale of Glamorgan | Wales | 21/9 | £5,206.93 |
| Swansea | Wales | 21/9 | £5,222.68 |
| Isle of Anglesey | Wales | 21/9 | £5,275.04 |
| Rhondda Cynon Taf | Wales | 21/9 | £5,342.00 |
| Wrexham | Wales | 21/9 | £5,387.39 |
| Denbighshire | Wales | 21/9 | £5,457.74 |
| Carmarthenshire | Wales | 21/9 | £5,486.13 |
| Powys | Wales | 21/9 | £5,487.35 |
| Flintshire | Wales | 21/9 | £5,544.40 |
| Monmouthshire | Wales | 21/9 | £5,638.50 |
| Ceredigion | Wales | 21/9 | £5,645.38 |
| Gwynedd | Wales | 21/9 | £5,760.46 |
| Conwy | Wales | 21/9 | £5,769.91 |
| Bridgend | Wales | 21/9 | £5,781.98 |
| Blaenau Gwent | Wales | 21/9 | £5,906.27 |
| Neath Port Talbot | Wales | 21/9 | £5,929.91 |
| Merthyr Tydfil | Wales | 21/9 | £6,051.73 |
Source: Valuation Office Agency Council Tax list + per-council published charge schedules; Scottish ratios per the 2017 reform.
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Compare Band I across UK councils
The table above shows Band I charges across our sample UK councils, each using its own nation's ratio. Use our side-by-side comparison page for the full billing-authority list with sortable Band D charges.
How we calculate Band I charges
Every billing authority sets its own annual Band D rate; Band I is then a fixed statutory proportion of that rate (21/9), so the charge tracks the local Band D rather than a single national figure. That produces the 1.3-times spread between the dearest (Merthyr Tydfil) and cheapest (Cardiff) shown above. Each council's charge above uses its own nation's statutory ratio under the Local Government Finance Act 1992, see our methodology page for the full per-country schedule.
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Charges use each nation's statutory band ratio applied to the council-set Band D; your bill may include parish or special-expense precepts.