Knowsley Council Tax 2026
North West, England · 72,110 domestic properties
According to MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026-27, Knowsley's Band D Council Tax is £2,488.25 for 2026-27, the 108th highest of 350 UK billing authorities (higher than 69% of them) and 6% above the UK average of £2,337.00. Nearest published Band D rates sit with North Somerset, Thanet, Blaby, Arun, then West Northamptonshire, Richmond upon Thames. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Chesterfield, Mansfield, Wolverhampton, Rotherham.
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 North Somerset, Thanet, Blaby, Arun, then West Northamptonshire, Richmond upon Thames. See our methodology page for the full source-to-figure lineage.
- £2,488.25
- Band D charge · 2026 statutory
- Above the UK average
- +4.93%
- year-on-year vs £2,371.28
- Middle-half rise
- +6.5%
- vs UK avg £2,337.00
- £4,976.50
- Band H · 18/9 of Band D
Nearest published Band D rates sit with North Somerset, Thanet, Blaby, Arun, then West Northamptonshire, Richmond upon Thames. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Chesterfield, Mansfield, Wolverhampton, Rotherham. Open North Somerset for the closest published Band D on the same vintage.
Knowsley · year-on-year Band D
What changed for Knowsley
Knowsley's Band D Council Tax rose from £2,371.28 (2025-26) to £2,488.25 (2026-27). Among 350 billing authorities by percentage rise, it ranks 170.
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 changesKnowsley bands A-H schedule
Per-band charge 2026
Knowsley's nearest Band D charges nationwide
Knowsley is 108th of 350 on the national Band D list at £2,488.25. Nearest published Band D rates sit with North Somerset, Thanet, Blaby, Arun, then West Northamptonshire, Richmond upon Thames. The six closest published 2026-27 rates, led by North Somerset, 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 North West ranking further down when you care about local neighbours, and the stock-weighted average when you care what most of Knowsley's 72,110 dwellings actually pay. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Chesterfield, Mansfield, Wolverhampton, Rotherham.
| Council | Band D | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| North Somerset | £2,491.22 | +£2.97 |
| Thanet | £2,490.90 | +£2.65 |
| Blaby | £2,490.22 | +£1.97 |
| Arun | £2,487.24 | −£1.01 |
| West Northamptonshire | £2,486.66 | −£1.59 |
| Richmond upon Thames | £2,486.10 | −£2.15 |
Band A–H charge table (2026/2027)
| Band | Annual Charge | Monthly | Sole occupant (−25%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | £1,658.83 | £165.88 | £1,244.12 |
| B | £1,935.31 | £193.53 | £1,451.48 |
| C | £2,211.78 | £221.18 | £1,658.84 |
| D | £2,488.25 | £248.83 | £1,866.19 |
| E | £3,041.19 | £304.12 | £2,280.89 |
| F | £3,594.14 | £359.41 | £2,695.61 |
| G | £4,147.08 | £414.71 | £3,110.31 |
| H | £4,976.50 | £497.65 | £3,732.38 |
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 Knowsley's 72,110 properties actually pay
Most homes in Knowsley sit in Band A, the bottom of the valuation list: 38,250 of 72,110 dwellings (53.0%). 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 — 53.0% — sit in that single band, an unusually concentrated stock. 89.3% 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 £1,915.02 per dwelling, £573.23 (23.0%) below the £2,488.25 Band D headline, because most of the stock sits in bands charged at less than the Band D rate. On that measure Knowsley is 285th of 318 authorities with published stock counts, against a £2,269.00 average. That places Knowsley 32nd of the 35 billing authorities in North West, below the regional median of £2,089.63.
How to read this stock pattern
Band D is a poor description of the largest group in Knowsley'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 £1,915.02 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 53.0% 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.
Knowsley falls in the lower quarter of the North West stock-weighted ordering, below the regional median of £2,089.63. 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: Ashfield
Ashfield is an exceptionally close stock-shape match for Knowsley: moving 2.1% 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 is lower on the ladder at Band A: Knowsley has 53.0% of dwellings there, against 52.1% in Ashfield. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
- A smaller distinction sits at lower Band C, where Ashfield holds 15.7% of its stock and Knowsley holds 14.9%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
- A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band B: Knowsley has 21.4% of dwellings there, against 20.6% in Ashfield. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
- A smaller distinction is at reference Band D: its share is 7.0% in Knowsley and 7.7% in Ashfield. The familiar benchmark represents a larger slice of the peer's housing stock.
How the wider profile compares
Knowsley has the stronger combined lower-band tilt: Bands A to C account for 0.9% more of its stock than they do in Ashfield. The nearest match still leaves that bottom-of-ladder difference visible.
Across Bands E and above the combined shares differ by 0.2%. 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 0.0% 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 leans toward Knowsley
- Band B leans toward Knowsley
- Band C leans toward Ashfield
- Band D leans toward Ashfield
- 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 Knowsley: Chesterfield (3.1% redistribution distance); Mansfield (3.2% redistribution distance); Wolverhampton (3.5% redistribution distance); Rotherham (3.8% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Ashfield stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.
| Band | Properties | Share of stock | Annual charge |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 38,250 | 53.0% | £1,658.83 |
| B | 15,400 | 21.4% | £1,935.31 |
| C | 10,720 | 14.9% | £2,211.78 |
| D | 5,050 | 7.0% | £2,488.25 |
| E | 2,190 | 3.0% | £3,041.19 |
| F | 340 | 0.5% | £3,594.14 |
| G | 140 | 0.2% | £4,147.08 |
| H | 20 | 0.0% | £4,976.50 |
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 Knowsley 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.
- Tameside£1,922.67
- Halton£1,921.77
- Leicester City£1,917.75
- Blaenau Gwent£1,914.79
- Erewash£1,914.11
Knowsley's nearest year-on-year movers
Knowsley moved Band D from £2,371.28 to £2,488.25 (+4.93%, competition rank 170th of 350). The closest published movements sit with Broxbourne, Cheltenham, North Lincolnshire.
- Broxbourne4.93%
- Cheltenham4.93%
- North Lincolnshire4.93%
- Peterborough4.93%
- Torridge4.93%
- East Hertfordshire4.92%
How Knowsley compares in North West
Among the 35 billing authorities in North West, Knowsley's 2026-27 Band D charge of £2,488.25 ranks 18th of 35, higher than 49% of them (£5.25 above the North West average of £2,483.00). Its nearest-charged neighbours in the region:
| Region rank | Council | Band D 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|
| 16th | Lancaster | £2,503.19 |
| 17th | Wirral | £2,500.59 |
| 18th | Knowsley | £2,488.25 |
| 19th | Fylde | £2,483.94 |
| 20th | Hyndburn | £2,465.98 |
Regional rank out of 35 North West billing authorities by 2026-27 Band D charge (1 = dearest). See the full UK ranking or the complete directory.
Questions answered from Knowsley's data
These answers use Knowsley's £2,488.25 Band D rate, the England statutory multipliers, and the VOA stock mix (modal Band A, 89.3% below D).
Is Knowsley Council Tax above the UK average?
Knowsley's 2026-27 Band D rate is £2,488.25, 6.5% above the UK average of £2,337.00. It has competition rank 108th of 350, with equal charges sharing a rank. Nearest published Band D rates sit with North Somerset, Thanet, Blaby, Arun, then West Northamptonshire, Richmond upon Thames.
Which councils have charges closest to Knowsley?
The closest published Band D rates are North Somerset (£2,491.22), Thanet (£2,490.90), Blaby (£2,490.22), Arun (£2,487.24), West Northamptonshire (£2,486.66), Richmond upon Thames (£2,486.10). The comparison table above shows the six nearest authorities and the exact difference from Knowsley.
What is the average Council Tax bill in Knowsley?
Across Knowsley's 72,110 domestic properties, the stock-weighted average charge is £1,915.02 for 2026-27. That is £573.23 below the £2,488.25 Band D rate, because the most common band here is Band A (53.0% of the stock) and 89.3% of dwellings are banded below D. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Chesterfield, Mansfield, Wolverhampton, Rotherham. Property counts are from the VOA 2025 stock release; the weighting is our calculation.
How did Knowsley Council Tax change for 2026-27?
Band D moved from £2,371.28 to £2,488.25, a 4.93% rise. Its competition rank by annual increase is 170th of 350; the closest movements include Broxbourne, Cheltenham, North Lincolnshire.
Advice boundary for Knowsley
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. Knowsley is a metropolitan borough: own charge plus policing and fire precepts, with parish elements uncommon. Nearest published Band D rates sit with North Somerset, Thanet, Blaby, Arun, then West Northamptonshire, Richmond upon Thames. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Chesterfield, Mansfield, Wolverhampton, Rotherham. For a binding figure consult your Knowsley 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 Knowsley are the area Band D and statutory band multiples with no county tier. Nearest published Band D rates sit with North Somerset, Thanet, Blaby, Arun, then West Northamptonshire, Richmond upon Thames.