Gwynedd Council Tax 2026
Wales · 62,730 domestic properties
According to Welsh Government / StatsWales, Council Tax levels 2026-27, Gwynedd's Band D Council Tax is £2,468.77 for 2026-27, the 126th highest of 350 UK billing authorities (higher than 64% of them) and 6% above the UK average of £2,337.00. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Torbay, Chichester, Ipswich, Cambridge, then North East Derbyshire, East Riding of Yorkshire. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Swansea, Carmarthenshire, Isle of Anglesey, Newport.
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. Wales revalued its housing stock to 2003 values and uses nine bands, A to I, rather than the eight used in England and Scotland. A Welsh Band D property therefore sits at a different point in the housing stock than an English Band D one, and the rank should be read as a charge comparison only. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Torbay, Chichester, Ipswich, Cambridge, then North East Derbyshire, East Riding of Yorkshire. See our methodology page for the full source-to-figure lineage.
- £2,468.77
- Band D charge · 2026 statutory
- Above the UK average
- +5.49%
- year-on-year vs £2,340.22
- Upper-quarter rise
- +5.6%
- vs UK avg £2,337.00
- £5,760.46
- Band I · 21/9 of Band D
Nearest published Band D rates sit with Torbay, Chichester, Ipswich, Cambridge, then North East Derbyshire, East Riding of Yorkshire. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Swansea, Carmarthenshire, Isle of Anglesey, Newport. Open Torbay for the closest published Band D on the same vintage.
Gwynedd · year-on-year Band D
What changed for Gwynedd
Gwynedd's Band D Council Tax rose from £2,340.22 (2025-26) to £2,468.77 (2026-27). Among 350 billing authorities by percentage rise, it ranks 58.
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 changesGwynedd bands A-I schedule
Per-band charge 2026
Gwynedd's nearest Band D charges nationwide
Gwynedd is 126th of 350 on the national Band D list at £2,468.77. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Torbay, Chichester, Ipswich, Cambridge, then North East Derbyshire, East Riding of Yorkshire. The six closest published 2026-27 rates, led by Torbay, 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 Wales ranking further down when you care about local neighbours, and the stock-weighted average when you care what most of Gwynedd's 62,730 dwellings actually pay. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Swansea, Carmarthenshire, Isle of Anglesey, Newport.
| Council | Band D | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Torbay | £2,470.25 | +£1.48 |
| Chichester | £2,469.68 | +£0.91 |
| Ipswich | £2,468.25 | −£0.52 |
| Cambridge | £2,467.02 | −£1.75 |
| North East Derbyshire | £2,466.57 | −£2.20 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | £2,466.08 | −£2.69 |
Band A–I charge table (2026/2027)
| Band | Annual Charge | Monthly | Sole occupant (−25%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | £1,645.85 | £164.58 | £1,234.39 |
| B | £1,920.15 | £192.02 | £1,440.11 |
| C | £2,194.46 | £219.45 | £1,645.85 |
| D | £2,468.77 | £246.88 | £1,851.58 |
| E | £3,017.39 | £301.74 | £2,263.04 |
| F | £3,566.00 | £356.60 | £2,674.50 |
| G | £4,114.62 | £411.46 | £3,085.97 |
| H | £4,937.54 | £493.75 | £3,703.15 |
| I | £5,760.46 | £576.05 | £4,320.35 |
Wales 2003 valuation ranges (Band A–I)
- Band A: Up to £44,000 (2003 valuation)
- Band B: £44,001 to £65,000
- Band C: £65,001 to £91,000
- Band D: £91,001 to £123,000 (reference band)
- Band E: £123,001 to £162,000
- Band F: £162,001 to £223,000
- Band G: £223,001 to £324,000
- Band H: £324,001 to £424,000
- Band I: Over £424,000
Source: Welsh Government / StatsWales, Council Tax levels 2026-27 (area Band D) + statutory Wales 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 Gwynedd's 62,730 properties actually pay
Gwynedd's housing stock peaks below the reference point, in Band B, which covers 15,850 of 62,730 dwellings (25.3%). A Band B home is charged at seven-ninths of the Band D rate, which is why the typical bill here lands under the headline figure. It takes 3 bands — B, C, D — to cover half the stock, a wider spread than most authorities show. 60.5% of dwellings on the Wales 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 £2,341.61 per dwelling, £127.16 (5.2%) below the £2,468.77 Band D headline, because most of the stock sits in bands charged at less than the Band D rate. On that measure Gwynedd is 118th of 318 authorities with published stock counts, against a £2,269.00 average. That places Gwynedd 9th of the 22 billing authorities in Wales, above the regional median of £2,258.00.
How to read this stock pattern
Gwynedd's largest property group sits in the lower half of the valuation ladder rather than at the Band D reference used in national tables. Its modal Band B charge is seven-ninths of the Band D rate, and 60.5% of the published stock lies below D. The headline alone does not show how often each band occurs. The stock-weighted amount applies the full distribution for an area-level comparison, while remaining an average rather than a household quotation.
Gwynedd has a broad valuation-band profile: the largest 3 groups are needed before the cumulative share passes half of the stock. No single band dominates the local picture, which makes a one-band headline especially incomplete. The weighted result is useful for comparing this authority with peers, but the spread across 9 published bands matters just as much. A broad mix also means the area-level mean is less representative of any one household than it is in a concentrated council.
Gwynedd occupies the middle half of the Wales stock-weighted distribution, above its £2,258.00 median. The regional result gives more context than a UK-wide rank without turning the difference into a superlative. It also shows that the council's band mix, not only its published Band D rate, determines where it sits among nearby authorities. The remaining distance from the median is an area-level comparison rather than a household saving or premium.
Closest housing-stock shape: Bridgend
Bridgend is the closest full-distribution match for Gwynedd. The profiles are close rather than identical: 3.8% of dwellings would need to shift between valuation bands for their published shares to align. The comparison therefore tests the whole ladder, not just the largest band.
Four largest band differences
- The largest separation is lower on the ladder at Band B: Gwynedd has 25.3% of dwellings there, against 23.2% in Bridgend. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
- Another material separation sits at lower Band C, where Bridgend holds 22.4% of its stock and Gwynedd holds 20.3%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
- A smaller distinction appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band E. Gwynedd places 13.3% of dwellings there versus 12.1% for Bridgend, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
- A smaller distinction sits at lower Band A, where Bridgend holds 16.0% of its stock and Gwynedd holds 15.0%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
How the wider profile compares
Bridgend is more concentrated across Bands A to C in aggregate, by 1.0% of its stock. Gwynedd's closest match is therefore achieved despite the peer carrying more homes below the reference band.
Gwynedd carries 0.5% more of its stock in Bands E and above than Bridgend. 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 B, 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 I is the most stable point in the comparison, with shares of 0.1% and 0.2%. 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 Bridgend
- Band B leans toward Gwynedd
- Band C leans toward Bridgend
- Band D leans toward Gwynedd
- Band E leans toward Gwynedd
- Band F is closely balanced
- Band G is closely balanced
- Band H is closely balanced
- Band I is closely balanced
This sequence is read from the lowest published band to the highest.
Other close Wales matches for Gwynedd: Swansea (4.6% redistribution distance); Carmarthenshire (5.6% redistribution distance); Isle of Anglesey (7.7% redistribution distance); Newport (10.7% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the Wales valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Bridgend stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.
| Band | Properties | Share of stock | Annual charge |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 9,390 | 15.0% | £1,645.85 |
| B | 15,850 | 25.3% | £1,920.15 |
| C | 12,740 | 20.3% | £2,194.46 |
| D | 10,780 | 17.2% | £2,468.77 |
| E | 8,340 | 13.3% | £3,017.39 |
| F | 4,050 | 6.5% | £3,566.00 |
| G | 1,280 | 2.0% | £4,114.62 |
| H | 210 | 0.3% | £4,937.54 |
| I | 90 | 0.1% | £5,760.46 |
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 Gwynedd 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.
- Adur£2,344.87
- East Cambridgeshire£2,344.17
- Rugby£2,341.70
- South Norfolk£2,336.20
- Wrexham£2,335.34
Gwynedd's nearest year-on-year movers
Gwynedd moved Band D from £2,340.22 to £2,468.77 (+5.49%, competition rank 58th of 350). The closest published movements sit with Clackmannanshire, Denbighshire, East Devon.
- Clackmannanshire5.60%
- Denbighshire5.50%
- East Devon5.45%
- Isle of Anglesey5.45%
- Rother5.45%
- Ceredigion5.37%
How Gwynedd compares in Wales
Among the 22 billing authorities in Wales, Gwynedd's 2026-27 Band D charge of £2,468.77 ranks 6th of 22, higher than 73% of them (£142.77 above the Wales average of £2,326.00). Its nearest-charged neighbours in the region:
| Region rank | Council | Band D 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|
| 4th | Bridgend | £2,477.99 |
| 5th | Conwy | £2,472.82 |
| 6th | Gwynedd | £2,468.77 |
| 7th | Ceredigion | £2,419.45 |
| 8th | Monmouthshire | £2,416.50 |
Regional rank out of 22 Wales billing authorities by 2026-27 Band D charge (1 = dearest). See the full UK ranking or the complete directory.
Questions answered from Gwynedd's data
These answers use Gwynedd's £2,468.77 Band D rate, the Wales statutory multipliers, and the VOA stock mix (modal Band B, 60.5% below D).
Is Gwynedd Council Tax above the UK average?
Gwynedd's 2026-27 Band D rate is £2,468.77, 5.6% above the UK average of £2,337.00. It has competition rank 126th of 350, with equal charges sharing a rank. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Torbay, Chichester, Ipswich, Cambridge, then North East Derbyshire, East Riding of Yorkshire.
Which councils have charges closest to Gwynedd?
The closest published Band D rates are Torbay (£2,470.25), Chichester (£2,469.68), Ipswich (£2,468.25), Cambridge (£2,467.02), North East Derbyshire (£2,466.57), East Riding of Yorkshire (£2,466.08). The comparison table above shows the six nearest authorities and the exact difference from Gwynedd.
What is the average Council Tax bill in Gwynedd?
Across Gwynedd's 62,730 domestic properties, the stock-weighted average charge is £2,341.61 for 2026-27. That is £127.16 below the £2,468.77 Band D rate, because the most common band here is Band B (25.3% of the stock) and 60.5% of dwellings are banded below D. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Swansea, Carmarthenshire, Isle of Anglesey, Newport. Property counts are from the VOA 2025 stock release; the weighting is our calculation.
How did Gwynedd Council Tax change for 2026-27?
Band D moved from £2,340.22 to £2,468.77, a 5.49% rise. Its competition rank by annual increase is 58th of 350; the closest movements include Clackmannanshire, Denbighshire, East Devon.
Advice boundary for Gwynedd
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 Wales Band D dataset and statutory Wales 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. Gwynedd's overall average Band D (bands A to I) combines the council charge with police and average community council precepts. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Torbay, Chichester, Ipswich, Cambridge, then North East Derbyshire, East Riding of Yorkshire. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Swansea, Carmarthenshire, Isle of Anglesey, Newport. For a binding figure consult your Gwynedd 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 Gwynedd are the overall average Band D across bands A to I, including police and community precepts. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Torbay, Chichester, Ipswich, Cambridge, then North East Derbyshire, East Riding of Yorkshire.