East Lindsey Council Tax 2026
East Midlands, England · 73,080 domestic properties
According to MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026-27, East Lindsey's Band D Council Tax is £2,275.88 for 2026-27, the 269th highest of 350 UK billing authorities (higher than 23% of them) and 3% below the UK average of £2,337.00. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Colchester, Braintree, South Holland, Epping Forest, then Fareham, Tendring. Closest published housing-stock shapes include South Holland, Leeds, Bury, Wirral.
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 Colchester, Braintree, South Holland, Epping Forest, then Fareham, Tendring. See our methodology page for the full source-to-figure lineage.
- £2,275.88
- Band D charge · 2026 statutory
- Below the UK average
- +3.38%
- year-on-year vs £2,201.57
- Lower-quarter rise
- -2.6%
- vs UK avg £2,337.00
- £4,551.76
- Band H · 18/9 of Band D
Nearest published Band D rates sit with Colchester, Braintree, South Holland, Epping Forest, then Fareham, Tendring. Closest published housing-stock shapes include South Holland, Leeds, Bury, Wirral. Open Colchester for the closest published Band D on the same vintage.
East Lindsey · year-on-year Band D
What changed for East Lindsey
East Lindsey's Band D Council Tax rose from £2,201.57 (2025-26) to £2,275.88 (2026-27). Among 350 billing authorities by percentage rise, it ranks 333.
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 changesEast Lindsey bands A-H schedule
Per-band charge 2026
East Lindsey's nearest Band D charges nationwide
East Lindsey is 269th of 350 on the national Band D list at £2,275.88. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Colchester, Braintree, South Holland, Epping Forest, then Fareham, Tendring. The six closest published 2026-27 rates, led by Colchester, 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 East Midlands ranking further down when you care about local neighbours, and the stock-weighted average when you care what most of East Lindsey's 73,080 dwellings actually pay. Closest published housing-stock shapes include South Holland, Leeds, Bury, Wirral.
| Council | Band D | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Colchester | £2,282.85 | +£6.97 |
| Braintree | £2,280.34 | +£4.46 |
| South Holland | £2,278.20 | +£2.32 |
| Epping Forest | £2,277.21 | +£1.33 |
| Fareham | £2,270.55 | −£5.33 |
| Tendring | £2,269.63 | −£6.25 |
Band A–H charge table (2026/2027)
| Band | Annual Charge | Monthly | Sole occupant (−25%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | £1,517.25 | £151.73 | £1,137.94 |
| B | £1,770.13 | £177.01 | £1,327.60 |
| C | £2,023.00 | £202.30 | £1,517.25 |
| D | £2,275.88 | £227.59 | £1,706.91 |
| E | £2,781.63 | £278.16 | £2,086.22 |
| F | £3,287.38 | £328.74 | £2,465.54 |
| G | £3,793.13 | £379.31 | £2,844.85 |
| H | £4,551.76 | £455.18 | £3,413.82 |
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 East Lindsey's 73,080 properties actually pay
Most homes in East Lindsey sit in Band A, the bottom of the valuation list: 28,170 of 73,080 dwellings (38.5%). 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. Bands A and C between them account for 60.9% of the stock. 82.2% 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 £1,880.65 per dwelling, £395.23 (17.4%) below the £2,275.88 Band D headline, because most of the stock sits in bands charged at less than the Band D rate. On that measure East Lindsey is 295th of 318 authorities with published stock counts, against a £2,269.00 average. That places East Lindsey 30th of the 35 billing authorities in East Midlands, below the regional median of £2,103.94.
How to read this stock pattern
Band D is a poor description of the largest group in East Lindsey'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 £1,880.65 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.
This is a two-band centre rather than a single-band market. Bands A and C together contain 60.9% of dwellings, so neither band should be presented as a complete account of the area. The stock-weighted result combines both groups and the smaller tails into one comparable measure. The table shows where that mean comes from and prevents the distribution being flattened into an overconfident "typical property" claim.
East Lindsey falls in the lower quarter of the East Midlands stock-weighted ordering, below the regional median of £2,103.94. 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: Redcar & Cleveland
Redcar & Cleveland is an exceptionally close stock-shape match for East Lindsey: moving 1.9% 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 A, where Redcar & Cleveland holds 40.2% of its stock and East Lindsey holds 38.5%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
- A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band B: East Lindsey has 21.3% of dwellings there, against 20.7% in Redcar & Cleveland. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
- A smaller distinction appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band F. East Lindsey places 2.0% of dwellings there versus 1.6% for Redcar & Cleveland, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
- A smaller distinction falls on the reference band itself. Band D contains 9.6% of East Lindsey's stock but 9.2% of Redcar & Cleveland's, so the national headline describes more of the local distribution here.
How the wider profile compares
Redcar & Cleveland is more concentrated across Bands A to C in aggregate, by 0.9% of its stock. East Lindsey's closest match is therefore achieved despite the peer carrying more homes below the reference band.
Across Bands E and above the combined shares differ by 0.5%. As with the lower bands, this net comparison does not erase any opposing gaps between individual upper bands.
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 0.0%. 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 leans toward Redcar & Cleveland
- Band B leans toward East Lindsey
- Band C is closely balanced
- Band D is closely balanced
- Band E is closely balanced
- Band F is closely balanced
- 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 East Lindsey: South Holland (3.2% redistribution distance); Leeds (3.5% redistribution distance); Bury (4.4% redistribution distance); Wirral (4.7% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Redcar & Cleveland stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.
| Band | Properties | Share of stock | Annual charge |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 28,170 | 38.5% | £1,517.25 |
| B | 15,600 | 21.3% | £1,770.13 |
| C | 16,330 | 22.3% | £2,023.00 |
| D | 7,010 | 9.6% | £2,275.88 |
| E | 3,800 | 5.2% | £2,781.63 |
| F | 1,490 | 2.0% | £3,287.38 |
| G | 620 | 0.8% | £3,793.13 |
| H | 60 | 0.1% | £4,551.76 |
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 East Lindsey 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.
- Peterborough£1,893.01
- Hyndburn£1,891.52
- Portsmouth£1,887.02
- Rotherham£1,876.90
- South Holland£1,862.58
East Lindsey's nearest year-on-year movers
East Lindsey moved Band D from £2,201.57 to £2,275.88 (+3.38%, competition rank 333rd of 350). The closest published movements sit with North West Leicestershire, Hinckley & Bosworth, North Kesteven.
Muted-rise signal for East Lindsey: the increase is below 4%, placing this authority among the slower-moving part of the current dataset.
- North West Leicestershire3.43%
- Hinckley & Bosworth3.41%
- North Kesteven3.39%
- Charnwood3.36%
- Melton3.36%
- South Kesteven3.34%
How East Lindsey compares in East Midlands
Among the 35 billing authorities in East Midlands, East Lindsey's 2026-27 Band D charge of £2,275.88 ranks 34th of 35, higher than 3% of them (£181.12 below the East Midlands average of £2,457.00). Its nearest-charged neighbours in the region:
Regional low-charge outlier: this authority sits in the least costly fifth of East Midlands.
| Region rank | Council | Band D 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|
| 32nd | Derby City | £2,306.00 |
| 33rd | South Holland | £2,278.20 |
| 34th | East Lindsey | £2,275.88 |
| 35th | South Kesteven | £2,260.00 |
Regional rank out of 35 East Midlands billing authorities by 2026-27 Band D charge (1 = dearest). See the full UK ranking or the complete directory.
Questions answered from East Lindsey's data
These answers use East Lindsey's £2,275.88 Band D rate, the England statutory multipliers, and the VOA stock mix (modal Band A, 82.2% below D).
Is East Lindsey Council Tax above the UK average?
East Lindsey's 2026-27 Band D rate is £2,275.88, 2.6% below the UK average of £2,337.00. It has competition rank 269th of 350, with equal charges sharing a rank. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Colchester, Braintree, South Holland, Epping Forest, then Fareham, Tendring.
Which councils have charges closest to East Lindsey?
The closest published Band D rates are Colchester (£2,282.85), Braintree (£2,280.34), South Holland (£2,278.20), Epping Forest (£2,277.21), Fareham (£2,270.55), Tendring (£2,269.63). The comparison table above shows the six nearest authorities and the exact difference from East Lindsey.
What is the average Council Tax bill in East Lindsey?
Across East Lindsey's 73,080 domestic properties, the stock-weighted average charge is £1,880.65 for 2026-27. That is £395.23 below the £2,275.88 Band D rate, because the most common band here is Band A (38.5% of the stock) and 82.2% of dwellings are banded below D. Closest published housing-stock shapes include South Holland, Leeds, Bury, Wirral. Property counts are from the VOA 2025 stock release; the weighting is our calculation.
How did East Lindsey Council Tax change for 2026-27?
Band D moved from £2,201.57 to £2,275.88, a 3.38% rise. Its competition rank by annual increase is 333rd of 350; the closest movements include North West Leicestershire, Hinckley & Bosworth, North Kesteven.
Advice boundary for East Lindsey
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. This area Band D is a two-tier total for East Lindsey: district charge plus county, police, fire where separate, and the average parish precept across the district. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Colchester, Braintree, South Holland, Epping Forest, then Fareham, Tendring. Closest published housing-stock shapes include South Holland, Leeds, Bury, Wirral. For a binding figure consult your East Lindsey 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 East Lindsey are the area Band D and statutory band multiples, already including county, police, fire and average parish precepts where they apply. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Colchester, Braintree, South Holland, Epping Forest, then Fareham, Tendring.