Lambeth Council Tax 2026
London, England · 148,610 domestic properties
According to MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026-27, Lambeth's Band D Council Tax is £2,047.11 for 2026-27, the 307th highest of 350 UK billing authorities (higher than 12% of them) and 12% below the UK average of £2,337.00. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Newport, Caerphilly, Hackney, Isles of Scilly, then Hillingdon, Cardiff. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Central Bedfordshire, Braintree, Canterbury, Hackney.
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 Newport, Caerphilly, Hackney, Isles of Scilly, then Hillingdon, Cardiff. See our methodology page for the full source-to-figure lineage.
- £2,047.11
- Band D charge · 2026 statutory
- Below the UK average
- +4.77%
- year-on-year vs £1,953.95
- Middle-half rise
- -12.4%
- vs UK avg £2,337.00
- £4,094.22
- Band H · 18/9 of Band D
Nearest published Band D rates sit with Newport, Caerphilly, Hackney, Isles of Scilly, then Hillingdon, Cardiff. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Central Bedfordshire, Braintree, Canterbury, Hackney. Open Newport for the closest published Band D on the same vintage.
Lambeth · year-on-year Band D
What changed for Lambeth
Lambeth's Band D Council Tax rose from £1,953.95 (2025-26) to £2,047.11 (2026-27). Among 350 billing authorities by percentage rise, it ranks 225.
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 changesLambeth bands A-H schedule
Per-band charge 2026
Lambeth's nearest Band D charges nationwide
Lambeth is 307th of 350 on the national Band D list at £2,047.11. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Newport, Caerphilly, Hackney, Isles of Scilly, then Hillingdon, Cardiff. The six closest published 2026-27 rates, led by Newport, 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 London ranking further down when you care about local neighbours, and the stock-weighted average when you care what most of Lambeth's 148,610 dwellings actually pay. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Central Bedfordshire, Braintree, Canterbury, Hackney.
| Council | Band D | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Newport | £2,088.48 | +£41.37 |
| Caerphilly | £2,082.88 | +£35.77 |
| Hackney | £2,060.30 | +£13.19 |
| Isles of Scilly | £2,047.96 | +£0.85 |
| Hillingdon | £2,045.46 | −£1.65 |
| Cardiff | £2,013.18 | −£33.93 |
Band A–H charge table (2026/2027)
| Band | Annual Charge | Monthly | Sole occupant (−25%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | £1,364.74 | £136.47 | £1,023.56 |
| B | £1,592.20 | £159.22 | £1,194.15 |
| C | £1,819.65 | £181.97 | £1,364.74 |
| D | £2,047.11 | £204.71 | £1,535.33 |
| E | £2,502.02 | £250.20 | £1,876.51 |
| F | £2,956.94 | £295.69 | £2,217.71 |
| G | £3,411.85 | £341.19 | £2,558.89 |
| H | £4,094.22 | £409.42 | £3,070.67 |
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 Lambeth's 148,610 properties actually pay
Lambeth's housing stock peaks below the reference point, in Band C, which covers 42,350 of 148,610 dwellings (28.5%). A Band C home is charged at eight-ninths of the Band D rate, which is why the typical bill here lands under the headline figure. Bands B and C between them account for 51.0% of the stock. 54.4% 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 £2,044.83 per dwelling, £2.28 (0.1%) below the £2,047.11 Band D headline, because most of the stock sits in bands charged at less than the Band D rate. On that measure Lambeth is 240th of 318 authorities with published stock counts, against a £2,269.00 average. That places Lambeth 22nd of the 33 billing authorities in London, below the regional median of £2,261.38.
How to read this stock pattern
Lambeth'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 C charge is eight-ninths of the Band D rate, and 54.4% 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.
This is a two-band centre rather than a single-band market. Bands B and C together contain 51.0% 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.
Lambeth occupies the middle half of the London stock-weighted distribution, below its £2,261.38 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: Cherwell
Cherwell is the nearest available full-distribution peer for Lambeth, although the match is not tight. Aligning the two published profiles would require 7.4% of dwellings to move between valuation bands. Even the closest council therefore has a materially different housing-stock shape.
Four largest band differences
- The largest separation sits at lower Band A, where Cherwell holds 8.6% of its stock and Lambeth holds 3.4%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
- Another material separation falls on the reference band itself. Band D contains 22.4% of Lambeth's stock but 17.6% of Cherwell's, so the national headline describes more of the local distribution here.
- A smaller distinction is an upper-band difference at Band E. Cherwell records 12.8% of dwellings there, compared with 11.2% in Lambeth, so the peer carries more of its stock at that higher rung.
- A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band C: Lambeth has 28.5% of dwellings there, against 27.4% in Cherwell. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
How the wider profile compares
Cherwell is more concentrated across Bands A to C in aggregate, by 4.7% of its stock. Lambeth'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 0.1%. As with the lower bands, this net comparison does not erase any opposing gaps between individual upper bands.
Both profiles peak in Band C, 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 G is the most stable point in the comparison, with shares of 4.0% and 4.0%. 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 Cherwell
- Band B leans toward Cherwell
- Band C leans toward Lambeth
- Band D leans toward Lambeth
- Band E leans toward Cherwell
- Band F leans toward Lambeth
- 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 Lambeth: Central Bedfordshire (7.6% redistribution distance); Braintree (8.2% redistribution distance); Canterbury (8.4% redistribution distance); Hackney (8.4% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Cherwell stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.
| Band | Properties | Share of stock | Annual charge |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 5,020 | 3.4% | £1,364.74 |
| B | 33,460 | 22.5% | £1,592.20 |
| C | 42,350 | 28.5% | £1,819.65 |
| D | 33,230 | 22.4% | £2,047.11 |
| E | 16,590 | 11.2% | £2,502.02 |
| F | 10,820 | 7.3% | £2,956.94 |
| G | 5,960 | 4.0% | £3,411.85 |
| H | 1,180 | 0.8% | £4,094.22 |
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 Lambeth 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.
- Gosport£2,055.21
- Salford£2,053.05
- Cumberland£2,050.81
- Middlesbrough£2,037.84
- Liverpool£2,035.92
Lambeth's nearest year-on-year movers
Lambeth moved Band D from £1,953.95 to £2,047.11 (+4.77%, competition rank 225th of 350). The closest published movements sit with Amber Valley, Barnet, Greenwich.
- Amber Valley4.77%
- Barnet4.77%
- Greenwich4.77%
- Hackney4.77%
- Hillingdon4.77%
- Islington4.77%
How Lambeth compares in London
Among the 33 billing authorities in London, Lambeth's 2026-27 Band D charge of £2,047.11 ranks 24th of 33, higher than 27% of them (£42.89 below the London average of £2,090.00). Its nearest-charged neighbours in the region:
| Region rank | Council | Band D 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|
| 22nd | Greenwich | £2,107.86 |
| 23rd | Hackney | £2,060.30 |
| 24th | Lambeth | £2,047.11 |
| 25th | Hillingdon | £2,045.46 |
| 26th | Southwark | £1,967.26 |
Regional rank out of 33 London billing authorities by 2026-27 Band D charge (1 = dearest). See the full UK ranking or the complete directory.
Questions answered from Lambeth's data
These answers use Lambeth's £2,047.11 Band D rate, the England statutory multipliers, and the VOA stock mix (modal Band C, 54.4% below D).
Is Lambeth Council Tax above the UK average?
Lambeth's 2026-27 Band D rate is £2,047.11, 12.4% below the UK average of £2,337.00. It has competition rank 307th of 350, with equal charges sharing a rank. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Newport, Caerphilly, Hackney, Isles of Scilly, then Hillingdon, Cardiff.
Which councils have charges closest to Lambeth?
The closest published Band D rates are Newport (£2,088.48), Caerphilly (£2,082.88), Hackney (£2,060.30), Isles of Scilly (£2,047.96), Hillingdon (£2,045.46), Cardiff (£2,013.18). The comparison table above shows the six nearest authorities and the exact difference from Lambeth.
What is the average Council Tax bill in Lambeth?
Across Lambeth's 148,610 domestic properties, the stock-weighted average charge is £2,044.83 for 2026-27. That is £2.28 below the £2,047.11 Band D rate, because the most common band here is Band C (28.5% of the stock) and 54.4% of dwellings are banded below D. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Central Bedfordshire, Braintree, Canterbury, Hackney. Property counts are from the VOA 2025 stock release; the weighting is our calculation.
How did Lambeth Council Tax change for 2026-27?
Band D moved from £1,953.95 to £2,047.11, a 4.77% rise. Its competition rank by annual increase is 225th of 350; the closest movements include Amber Valley, Barnet, Greenwich.
Advice boundary for Lambeth
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. Lambeth's Band D already includes the borough charge plus the Mayor of London's GLA precept for capital-wide services. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Newport, Caerphilly, Hackney, Isles of Scilly, then Hillingdon, Cardiff. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Central Bedfordshire, Braintree, Canterbury, Hackney. For a binding figure consult your Lambeth 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 Lambeth are the area Band D and statutory band multiples, including the GLA precept. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Newport, Caerphilly, Hackney, Isles of Scilly, then Hillingdon, Cardiff.