England East of England 50,760 properties NEAR MID LOWBAND

Mid Suffolk Council Tax 2026

East of England, England · 50,760 domestic properties

Mid Suffolk Band D is £2,316.88 for 2026-27, the 243rd highest of 350 UK billing authorities (1% below the UK average of £2,337.00).

According to MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026-27, Mid Suffolk's published Band D Council Tax is £2,316.88 for 2026-27 (NEAR). Competition rank is 243rd of 350 (higher than 31% of authorities).

  • £2,316.88 Band D · NEAR
  • 243rd of 350 authorities
  • -0.9% vs UK average

According to MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026-27, Mid Suffolk's Band D Council Tax is £2,316.88 for 2026-27 (NEAR), the 243rd highest of 350 UK billing authorities (higher than 31% of them) and 1% below the UK average of £2,337.00.

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. See our methodology page for the full source-to-figure lineage.

£2,316.88
Band D charge · 2026 statutory
Near the UK average
+4.91%
year-on-year vs £2,208.43
Middle-half rise
-0.9%
vs UK avg £2,337.00
£4,633.76
Band H · 18/9 of Band D

Mid Suffolk · year-on-year Band D

What changed for Mid Suffolk

+£108.45 (+4.91%)

Mid Suffolk's Band D Council Tax rose from £2,208.43 (2025-26) to £2,316.88 (2026-27). Among 350 billing authorities by percentage rise, it ranks 177.

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 changes

MHCLG/VOA position brief

Mid Suffolk Band D posture in the 2026-27 corpus

Entity-varying stamps from the joined MHCLG, Scottish CTAS and StatsWales extract plus VOA CTSOP stock counts, ABS(charge) peers, not map neighbours.

  1. £2,316.88 Published Band D 2026-27 NEAR
  2. 243rd of 350 UK authorities 31st percentile
  3. +4.9% Year-on-year Band D MID
  4. 50,760 VOA dwellings on list LOWBAND

Band D charge neighbourhood

Published 2026-27 Band D among the nearest pound-gap peers (snapshot 2026-10-02).

Rushmoor£2,320Havant£2,320Castle Point£2,319Mid Suffolk (this)£2,317Haringey£2,314South Staffordshire£2,314Manchester£2,312

Charge twins

Derived position reading

What the Mid Suffolk Band D figure shows

The published Band D charge of £2,316.88 places Mid Suffolk 243rd out of 350 UK billing authorities when ordered from the highest charge down. That position is derived from the full authority table, rather than from a single quoted comparison. It is 0.9% below the simple UK average of £2,337.00, while the percentile shows that 31% of the recorded authorities have a lower Band D charge.

The more useful local comparison is East of England. Here, Mid Suffolk ranks 34th among 45 billing authorities, against a regional average of £2,391.00. The table of nearby authorities therefore compares published charges in the same geography, not property values or the level of service a household receives. Equal Band D charges share a position, so the ranking does not invent a difference where the underlying values match.

Band D is a statutory reference point, not a bill for every household. Charges for the other bands are calculated from the applicable national ratios, and discounts or exemptions can change an individual bill. This page is best used to understand the current published schedule and how this authority sits within the recorded 2026-27 council-tax corpus.

Mid Suffolk bands A-H schedule

Per-band charge 2026

Band A1544.59Band B1802.02Band C2059.45Band D2316.88Band E2831.74Band F3346.6Band G3861.47Band H4633.76

Band A–H charge table (2026/2027)

Annual, monthly and sole-occupant Council Tax charges by band for Mid Suffolk
Band Annual Charge Monthly Sole occupant (−25%)
A £1,544.59 £154.46 £1,158.44
B £1,802.02 £180.20 £1,351.51
C £2,059.45 £205.95 £1,544.59
D £2,316.88 £231.69 £1,737.66
E £2,831.74 £283.17 £2,123.81
F £3,346.60 £334.66 £2,509.95
G £3,861.47 £386.15 £2,896.10
H £4,633.76 £463.38 £3,475.32
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 Mid Suffolk's 50,760 properties actually pay

Mid Suffolk's housing stock peaks below the reference point, in Band B, which covers 13,580 of 50,760 dwellings (26.8%). 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. VOA CTSOP stamp LOWBAND: 60.8% of dwellings here are banded below D.

Stock-weighted average £2,223.41 is £93.47 (4.0%) below Band D £2,316.88 - 165th of 318 authorities with published counts (corpus mean £2,269.00). That places Mid Suffolk 25th of the 45 billing authorities in East of England, below the regional median of £2,255.65.

Mid Suffolk property mix · A–C / D / E–H · LOWBAND

Sums to 50,760 VOA dwellings, band mix, not a household bill.

Closest housing-stock shape: West Devon

West Devon is the closest full-distribution match for Mid Suffolk. The profiles are close rather than identical: 3.4% 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: Mid Suffolk has 26.8% of dwellings there, against 24.5% in West Devon. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
  • A smaller distinction sits at lower Band A, where West Devon holds 13.3% of its stock and Mid Suffolk holds 11.9%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
  • A smaller distinction is lower on the ladder at Band C: Mid Suffolk has 22.2% of dwellings there, against 21.0% in West Devon. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
  • A smaller distinction is an upper-band difference at Band E. West Devon records 13.5% of dwellings there, compared with 12.8% in Mid Suffolk, so the peer carries more of its stock at that higher rung.

Other close England matches for Mid Suffolk: Babergh (3.8% redistribution distance); East Cambridgeshire (4.0% redistribution distance); Somerset (4.1% redistribution distance); Huntingdonshire (4.1% redistribution distance).

Domestic properties by Council Tax band in Mid Suffolk, with the charge for each band
Band Properties Share of stock Annual charge
A 6,020 11.9% £1,544.59
B 13,580 26.8% £1,802.02
C 11,280 22.2% £2,059.45
D 8,130 16.0% £2,316.88
E 6,480 12.8% £2,831.74
F 3,420 6.7% £3,346.60
G 1,740 3.4% £3,861.47
H 110 0.2% £4,633.76
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

Closest to Mid Suffolk on stock-weighted charge (LOWBAND) - a different ordering from Band D twins.

Mid Suffolk's nearest year-on-year movers · MID

Mid Suffolk moved Band D from £2,208.43 to £2,316.88 (+4.91%, MID; competition rank 177th of 350). Closest published movements: East Hertfordshire, St Albans, Vale of White Horse.

How Mid Suffolk compares in East of England

Among the 45 billing authorities in East of England, Mid Suffolk's 2026-27 Band D charge of £2,316.88 ranks 34th of 45, higher than 24% of them (£74.12 below the East of England average of £2,391.00). Its nearest-charged neighbours in the region:

Mid Suffolk and its nearest-charged neighbours in East of England
Region rankCouncilBand D 2026-27
32nd Basildon £2,327.24
33rd Castle Point £2,318.63
34th Mid Suffolk £2,316.88
35th Broxbourne £2,306.43
36th Chelmsford £2,300.18

Regional rank out of 45 East of England billing authorities by 2026-27 Band D charge (1 = dearest). See the full UK ranking or the complete directory.

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 Mid Suffolk: district charge plus county, police, fire where separate, and the average parish precept across the district. For a binding figure consult your Mid Suffolk Council Tax bill or the official gov.uk Council Tax service. Figures published in 2026 reflect the 2026/2027 financial year only.

UK directories, Band D rollup and band challenge

Charges shown for Mid Suffolk are the area Band D and statutory band multiples, already including county, police, fire and average parish precepts where they apply.

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