Doncaster Council Tax 2026
Yorkshire and The Humber, England · 144,930 domestic properties
According to MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026-27, Doncaster's Band D Council Tax is £2,167.75 for 2026-27, the 292nd highest of 350 UK billing authorities (higher than 17% of them) and 7% below the UK average of £2,337.00. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Hounslow, Stoke-on-Trent, Pembrokeshire, Torfaen, then Wigan, Merton. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Barnsley, Sheffield, Liverpool, Leicester City.
How we calculate this rank & percentile
We compare every UK billing authority with a published 2026-27 Band D rate (350 in total). Rank is one plus the number with a higher charge, so equal charges share a rank. Percentile is round(authorities with a lower charge ÷ 350 × 100). The UK average is the simple mean of every council's Band D rate in our coverage set. Because the rank spans all three nations, it compares what each authority charges, not what each charge buys. English bands rest on 1991 property values in eight bands, A to H, while Scotland uses its own 1991 thresholds and Wales revalued to 2003 values with a ninth band. An English Band D home is therefore not the same property profile as a Welsh or Scottish one. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Hounslow, Stoke-on-Trent, Pembrokeshire, Torfaen, then Wigan, Merton. See our methodology page for the full source-to-figure lineage.
- £2,167.75
- Band D charge · 2026 statutory
- Below the UK average
- +2.71%
- year-on-year vs £2,110.50
- Lower-quarter rise
- -7.2%
- vs UK avg £2,337.00
- £4,335.50
- Band H · 18/9 of Band D
Nearest published Band D rates sit with Hounslow, Stoke-on-Trent, Pembrokeshire, Torfaen, then Wigan, Merton. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Barnsley, Sheffield, Liverpool, Leicester City. Open Hounslow for the closest published Band D on the same vintage.
Doncaster · year-on-year Band D
What changed for Doncaster
Doncaster's Band D Council Tax rose from £2,110.50 (2025-26) to £2,167.75 (2026-27). Among 350 billing authorities by percentage rise, it ranks 346.
How to read this Band D change
This is a change in the published Band D charge, not advice about household bills. Precepts, discounts, and banding decide the amount you pay.
See UK year-on-year changesDoncaster bands A-H schedule
Per-band charge 2026
Doncaster's nearest Band D charges nationwide
Doncaster is 292nd of 350 on the national Band D list at £2,167.75. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Hounslow, Stoke-on-Trent, Pembrokeshire, Torfaen, then Wigan, Merton. The six closest published 2026-27 rates, led by Hounslow, ignore geography on purpose, so a map neighbour is not mistaken for a charge twin. Read the difference column as a pound gap; cross-check the Yorkshire and The Humber ranking further down when you care about local neighbours, and the stock-weighted average when you care what most of Doncaster's 144,930 dwellings actually pay. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Barnsley, Sheffield, Liverpool, Leicester City.
| Council | Band D | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Hounslow | £2,185.56 | +£17.81 |
| Stoke-on-Trent | £2,183.12 | +£15.37 |
| Pembrokeshire | £2,166.15 | −£1.60 |
| Torfaen | £2,155.68 | −£12.07 |
| Wigan | £2,152.68 | −£15.07 |
| Merton | £2,146.76 | −£20.99 |
Band A–H charge table (2026/2027)
| Band | Annual Charge | Monthly | Sole occupant (−25%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | £1,445.17 | £144.52 | £1,083.88 |
| B | £1,686.03 | £168.60 | £1,264.52 |
| C | £1,926.89 | £192.69 | £1,445.17 |
| D | £2,167.75 | £216.78 | £1,625.81 |
| E | £2,649.47 | £264.95 | £1,987.10 |
| F | £3,131.19 | £313.12 | £2,348.39 |
| G | £3,612.92 | £361.29 | £2,709.69 |
| H | £4,335.50 | £433.55 | £3,251.63 |
England 1991 valuation ranges (Band A–H)
- Band A: Up to £40,000 (1991 valuation)
- Band B: £40,001 to £52,000
- Band C: £52,001 to £68,000
- Band D: £68,001 to £88,000 (reference band)
- Band E: £88,001 to £120,000
- Band F: £120,001 to £160,000
- Band G: £160,001 to £320,000
- Band H: Over £320,000
Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026-27 (area Band D) + statutory England band ratios documented in our methodology. Monthly figure is the annual charge / 10 (most councils use 10 monthly instalments). The sole-occupant column applies the statutory 25% single-person discount, payable when only one adult lives in the property.
What Doncaster's 144,930 properties actually pay
Most homes in Doncaster sit in Band A, the bottom of the valuation list: 82,800 of 144,930 dwellings (57.1%). Band A is charged at two-thirds of the Band D rate, so the headline figure above describes a property type that is in the minority here. More than half of those homes — 57.1% — sit in that single band, an unusually concentrated stock. 87.2% of dwellings on the England valuation list here are banded below D.
Weighting each band's statutory charge by the number of properties in it gives a stock-weighted average of £1,680.73 per dwelling, £487.02 (22.5%) below the £2,167.75 Band D headline, because most of the stock sits in bands charged at less than the Band D rate. On that measure Doncaster is 314th of 318 authorities with published stock counts, against a £2,269.00 average. That places Doncaster 14th of the 15 billing authorities in Yorkshire and The Humber, below the regional median of £1,939.70.
How to read this stock pattern
Band D is a poor description of the largest group in Doncaster's housing stock. The dominant group is Band A, where the statutory charge is two-thirds of the Band D rate, while the reference band describes a different part of the valuation list. The £1,680.73 stock-weighted figure is therefore the more representative area-level comparison. It does not predict an individual bill, because discounts, exemptions and the property's actual valuation band still determine liability.
The distribution is unusually concentrated: one band alone contains 57.1% of all published dwellings. That gives the modal-band comparison real descriptive weight and makes the gap between its charge and Band D easier to interpret. It also means the statutory charge shown for that band applies to the largest share of the local stock before discounts or exemptions. The table remains necessary because the other 7 bands describe the minority of properties that the headline cannot represent.
Doncaster falls in the lower quarter of the Yorkshire and The Humber stock-weighted ordering, below the regional median of £1,939.70. Its Band D figure may sit elsewhere in the national table, but applying the local stock mix produces a cheaper regional comparison. That difference is precisely why both measures are shown. Neither replaces an address-level bill, which depends on the property's valuation band and any applicable reductions.
Closest housing-stock shape: Bolsover
Bolsover is an exceptionally close stock-shape match for Doncaster: moving 2.4% of dwellings between valuation bands would make the two published distributions align. That is a stricter comparison than sharing a modal band, because all published bands contribute to the distance.
Four largest band differences
- The largest separation sits at lower Band C, where Bolsover holds 12.6% of its stock and Doncaster holds 11.3%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
- A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band B: Doncaster has 18.8% of dwellings there, against 17.8% in Bolsover. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
- A smaller distinction is at reference Band D: its share is 7.1% in Doncaster and 7.9% in Bolsover. The familiar benchmark represents a larger slice of the peer's housing stock.
- A smaller distinction appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band F. Doncaster places 1.6% of dwellings there versus 0.9% for Bolsover, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
How the wider profile compares
Bolsover is more concentrated across Bands A to C in aggregate, by 0.6% of its stock. Doncaster's closest match is therefore achieved despite the peer carrying more homes below the reference band.
Doncaster carries 1.5% more of its stock in Bands E and above than Bolsover. The extra upper-tail weight is small enough for this to remain the nearest peer, but large enough to distinguish the two areas.
Both profiles peak in Band A, so the peer match agrees on the most common valuation group as well as the full-distribution distance. The band-by-band gaps above show why a shared mode does not make the profiles interchangeable.
Band H is the most stable point in the comparison, with shares of 0.1% and 0.1%. Reading that near-match beside the largest gaps prevents the peer label from hiding where the two published distributions actually agree.
Show every band direction
- Band A is closely balanced
- Band B leans toward Doncaster
- Band C leans toward Bolsover
- Band D leans toward Bolsover
- Band E is closely balanced
- Band F leans toward Doncaster
- Band G is closely balanced
- Band H is closely balanced
This sequence is read from the lowest published band to the highest.
Other close England matches for Doncaster: Barnsley (3.0% redistribution distance); Sheffield (3.2% redistribution distance); Liverpool (3.4% redistribution distance); Leicester City (3.7% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Bolsover stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.
| Band | Properties | Share of stock | Annual charge |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 82,800 | 57.1% | £1,445.17 |
| B | 27,250 | 18.8% | £1,686.03 |
| C | 16,310 | 11.3% | £1,926.89 |
| D | 10,240 | 7.1% | £2,167.75 |
| E | 4,920 | 3.4% | £2,649.47 |
| F | 2,280 | 1.6% | £3,131.19 |
| G | 990 | 0.7% | £3,612.92 |
| H | 140 | 0.1% | £4,335.50 |
Property-stock source, rounding and weighting notes
Property counts: VOA, Council Tax: stock of properties 2025 (Table CTSOP1.0_SUP, as at 9 September 2025), Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts are published rounded to the nearest 10, so shares are approximate and may not sum to exactly 100%. The stock-weighted average is our calculation: each band's 2026/2027 charge multiplied by its property count, divided by the total. It is a mean across the whole stock, not a bill any individual household receives.
Authorities charging a similar average across their stock
These are the closest authorities to Doncaster on the stock-weighted measure, which is a different ordering from the Band D neighbours above because it accounts for how each area's properties are banded.
- City of London£1,727.17
- Wigan£1,725.27
- Sunderland£1,685.90
- Kingston upon Hull£1,678.56
- Stoke-on-Trent£1,635.04
Doncaster's nearest year-on-year movers
Doncaster moved Band D from £2,110.50 to £2,167.75 (+2.71%, competition rank 346th of 350). The closest published movements sit with Harborough, Durham, Lincoln.
Muted-rise signal for Doncaster: the increase is below 4%, placing this authority among the slower-moving part of the current dataset.
- Harborough2.79%
- Durham2.78%
- Lincoln2.75%
- Merton2.50%
- Rutland2.49%
- Hartlepool2.47%
How Doncaster compares in Yorkshire and The Humber
Among the 15 billing authorities in Yorkshire and The Humber, Doncaster's 2026-27 Band D charge of £2,167.75 ranks 15th of 15, higher than 0% of them (£206.25 below the Yorkshire and The Humber average of £2,374.00). Its nearest-charged neighbours in the region:
Regional low-charge outlier: this authority sits in the least costly fifth of Yorkshire and The Humber.
| Region rank | Council | Band D 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|
| 13th | York | £2,287.15 |
| 14th | Leeds | £2,283.73 |
| 15th | Doncaster | £2,167.75 |
Regional rank out of 15 Yorkshire and The Humber billing authorities by 2026-27 Band D charge (1 = dearest). See the full UK ranking or the complete directory.
Questions answered from Doncaster's data
These answers use Doncaster's £2,167.75 Band D rate, the England statutory multipliers, and the VOA stock mix (modal Band A, 87.2% below D).
Is Doncaster Council Tax above the UK average?
Doncaster's 2026-27 Band D rate is £2,167.75, 7.2% below the UK average of £2,337.00. It has competition rank 292nd of 350, with equal charges sharing a rank. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Hounslow, Stoke-on-Trent, Pembrokeshire, Torfaen, then Wigan, Merton.
Which councils have charges closest to Doncaster?
The closest published Band D rates are Hounslow (£2,185.56), Stoke-on-Trent (£2,183.12), Pembrokeshire (£2,166.15), Torfaen (£2,155.68), Wigan (£2,152.68), Merton (£2,146.76). The comparison table above shows the six nearest authorities and the exact difference from Doncaster.
What is the average Council Tax bill in Doncaster?
Across Doncaster's 144,930 domestic properties, the stock-weighted average charge is £1,680.73 for 2026-27. That is £487.02 below the £2,167.75 Band D rate, because the most common band here is Band A (57.1% of the stock) and 87.2% of dwellings are banded below D. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Barnsley, Sheffield, Liverpool, Leicester City. Property counts are from the VOA 2025 stock release; the weighting is our calculation.
How did Doncaster Council Tax change for 2026-27?
Band D moved from £2,110.50 to £2,167.75, a 2.71% rise. Its competition rank by annual increase is 346th of 350; the closest movements include Harborough, Durham, Lincoln.
Advice boundary for Doncaster
They are not personalised advice - expand a question for the figure that matches the tables above for the 2026-27 vintage, then follow the methodology or gov.uk links for a binding bill on a specific property.
Council Tax figure, precept and liability disclaimer
Council Tax charges shown on this page are derived from the published England Band D dataset and statutory England band ratios. They are intended as informational guidance, not as a personalised tax statement or legal advice. Your actual bill depends on your property's assigned band and on any discounts or exemptions that apply to your household. Doncaster is a metropolitan borough: own charge plus policing and fire precepts, with parish elements uncommon. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Hounslow, Stoke-on-Trent, Pembrokeshire, Torfaen, then Wigan, Merton. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Barnsley, Sheffield, Liverpool, Leicester City. For a binding figure consult your Doncaster Council Tax bill or the official gov.uk Council Tax service. Figures published in 2026 reflect the 2026/2027 financial year only.
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Charges shown for Doncaster are the area Band D and statutory band multiples with no county tier. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Hounslow, Stoke-on-Trent, Pembrokeshire, Torfaen, then Wigan, Merton.