Monmouthshire Council Tax 2026
Wales · 44,430 domestic properties
According to Welsh Government / StatsWales, Council Tax levels 2026-27, Monmouthshire's Band D Council Tax is £2,416.50 for 2026-27, the 175th highest of 350 UK billing authorities (higher than 50% of them) and 3% above the UK average of £2,337.00. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Canterbury, St Albans, Crawley, North West Leicestershire, then Slough, Great Yarmouth. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Cardiff, Powys, Ceredigion, Flintshire.
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 Canterbury, St Albans, Crawley, North West Leicestershire, then Slough, Great Yarmouth. See our methodology page for the full source-to-figure lineage.
- £2,416.50
- Band D charge · 2026 statutory
- Above the UK average
- +6.12%
- year-on-year vs £2,277.19
- Upper-quarter rise
- +3.4%
- vs UK avg £2,337.00
- £5,638.50
- Band I · 21/9 of Band D
Nearest published Band D rates sit with Canterbury, St Albans, Crawley, North West Leicestershire, then Slough, Great Yarmouth. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Cardiff, Powys, Ceredigion, Flintshire. Open Canterbury for the closest published Band D on the same vintage.
Monmouthshire · year-on-year Band D
What changed for Monmouthshire
Monmouthshire's Band D Council Tax rose from £2,277.19 (2025-26) to £2,416.50 (2026-27). Among 350 billing authorities by percentage rise, it ranks 42.
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 changesMonmouthshire bands A-I schedule
Per-band charge 2026
Monmouthshire's nearest Band D charges nationwide
Monmouthshire is 175th of 350 on the national Band D list at £2,416.50. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Canterbury, St Albans, Crawley, North West Leicestershire, then Slough, Great Yarmouth. The six closest published 2026-27 rates, led by Canterbury, 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 Monmouthshire's 44,430 dwellings actually pay. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Cardiff, Powys, Ceredigion, Flintshire.
| Council | Band D | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Canterbury | £2,419.33 | +£2.83 |
| St Albans | £2,419.22 | +£2.72 |
| Crawley | £2,418.46 | +£1.96 |
| North West Leicestershire | £2,418.20 | +£1.70 |
| Slough | £2,414.44 | −£2.06 |
| Great Yarmouth | £2,414.41 | −£2.09 |
Band A–I charge table (2026/2027)
| Band | Annual Charge | Monthly | Sole occupant (−25%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | £1,611.00 | £161.10 | £1,208.25 |
| B | £1,879.50 | £187.95 | £1,409.63 |
| C | £2,148.00 | £214.80 | £1,611.00 |
| D | £2,416.50 | £241.65 | £1,812.38 |
| E | £2,953.50 | £295.35 | £2,215.13 |
| F | £3,490.50 | £349.05 | £2,617.88 |
| G | £4,027.50 | £402.75 | £3,020.63 |
| H | £4,833.00 | £483.30 | £3,624.75 |
| I | £5,638.50 | £563.85 | £4,228.88 |
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 Monmouthshire's 44,430 properties actually pay
Monmouthshire is one of the authorities where Band D genuinely is the commonest band — 9,480 of 44,430 dwellings (21.3%). The headline rate above therefore describes the typical home here, rather than sitting above it as it does in most of the country. It takes 3 bands — D, E, F — to cover half the stock, a wider spread than most authorities show. 25.1% 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 £2,956.82 per dwelling, £540.32 (22.4%) above the £2,416.50 Band D headline. On that measure Monmouthshire is 9th of 318 authorities with published stock counts, against a £2,269.00 average. No billing authority in Wales charges more per dwelling across its stock than Monmouthshire does.
How to read this stock pattern
Here the standard Band D benchmark and the most common property group point to the same part of the distribution. That makes Monmouthshire less sensitive than most authorities to the familiar criticism that Band D is merely a reference property. The stock-weighted amount is still useful: it incorporates the lower and upper bands instead of treating the modal group as the whole area. It should be read as a corpus comparison, not as the bill of a particular address.
Monmouthshire 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.
Monmouthshire sets the upper edge of the Wales comparison on this stock-weighted measure. That is stronger evidence than its UK-wide Band D position alone because every authority in the peer set is judged after its own band distribution is applied. The result identifies the most expensive average stock profile in the region; it does not establish that every property in Monmouthshire has the region's highest bill.
Closest housing-stock shape: Vale of Glamorgan
Vale of Glamorgan is the nearest available full-distribution peer for Monmouthshire, although the match is not tight. Aligning the two published profiles would require 11.5% 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 C, where Vale of Glamorgan holds 23.3% of its stock and Monmouthshire holds 16.1%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
- Another material separation appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band F. Monmouthshire places 18.3% of dwellings there versus 12.4% for Vale of Glamorgan, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
- Another material separation sits at lower Band B, where Vale of Glamorgan holds 10.7% of its stock and Monmouthshire holds 7.8%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
- Another material separation appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band G. Monmouthshire places 12.4% of dwellings there versus 9.5% for Vale of Glamorgan, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
How the wider profile compares
Vale of Glamorgan is more concentrated across Bands A to C in aggregate, by 11.3% of its stock. Monmouthshire's closest match is therefore achieved despite the peer carrying more homes below the reference band.
Monmouthshire carries 9.1% more of its stock in Bands E and above than Vale of Glamorgan. The extra upper-tail weight is small enough for this to remain the nearest peer, but large enough to distinguish the two areas.
Monmouthshire and Vale of Glamorgan do not even peak in the same valuation band: the peer's largest group is Band C. Their total-variation match is therefore built from offsetting shares across the ladder, not from one identical headline category.
Band E is the most stable point in the comparison, with shares of 17.3% and 17.3%. 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 Vale of Glamorgan
- Band B leans toward Vale of Glamorgan
- Band C leans toward Vale of Glamorgan
- Band D leans toward Monmouthshire
- Band E is closely balanced
- Band F leans toward Monmouthshire
- Band G leans toward Monmouthshire
- 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 Monmouthshire: Cardiff (13.9% redistribution distance); Powys (19.7% redistribution distance); Ceredigion (23.0% redistribution distance); Flintshire (24.0% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the Wales valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Vale of Glamorgan stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.
| Band | Properties | Share of stock | Annual charge |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 540 | 1.2% | £1,611.00 |
| B | 3,460 | 7.8% | £1,879.50 |
| C | 7,160 | 16.1% | £2,148.00 |
| D | 9,480 | 21.3% | £2,416.50 |
| E | 7,700 | 17.3% | £2,953.50 |
| F | 8,110 | 18.3% | £3,490.50 |
| G | 5,520 | 12.4% | £4,027.50 |
| H | 1,790 | 4.0% | £4,833.00 |
| I | 670 | 1.5% | £5,638.50 |
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 Monmouthshire 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.
- Epsom & Ewell£2,976.21
- Wealden£2,974.48
- Sevenoaks£2,936.70
- Reigate & Banstead£2,936.52
- Guildford£2,929.84
Monmouthshire's nearest year-on-year movers
Monmouthshire moved Band D from £2,277.19 to £2,416.50 (+6.12%, competition rank 42nd of 350). The closest published movements sit with East Renfrewshire, Orkney Islands, Wigan.
- East Renfrewshire6.00%
- Orkney Islands6.00%
- Wigan5.98%
- Manchester5.91%
- Glasgow City5.90%
- Bolton5.88%
How Monmouthshire compares in Wales
Among the 22 billing authorities in Wales, Monmouthshire's 2026-27 Band D charge of £2,416.50 ranks 8th of 22, higher than 64% of them (£90.50 above the Wales average of £2,326.00). Its nearest-charged neighbours in the region:
| Region rank | Council | Band D 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|
| 6th | Gwynedd | £2,468.77 |
| 7th | Ceredigion | £2,419.45 |
| 8th | Monmouthshire | £2,416.50 |
| 9th | Flintshire | £2,376.17 |
| 10th | Powys | £2,351.72 |
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 Monmouthshire's data
These answers use Monmouthshire's £2,416.50 Band D rate, the Wales statutory multipliers, and the VOA stock mix (modal Band D, 25.1% below D).
Is Monmouthshire Council Tax above the UK average?
Monmouthshire's 2026-27 Band D rate is £2,416.50, 3.4% above the UK average of £2,337.00. It has competition rank 175th of 350, with equal charges sharing a rank. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Canterbury, St Albans, Crawley, North West Leicestershire, then Slough, Great Yarmouth.
Which councils have charges closest to Monmouthshire?
The closest published Band D rates are Canterbury (£2,419.33), St Albans (£2,419.22), Crawley (£2,418.46), North West Leicestershire (£2,418.20), Slough (£2,414.44), Great Yarmouth (£2,414.41). The comparison table above shows the six nearest authorities and the exact difference from Monmouthshire.
What is the average Council Tax bill in Monmouthshire?
Across Monmouthshire's 44,430 domestic properties, the stock-weighted average charge is £2,956.82 for 2026-27. That is £540.32 above the £2,416.50 Band D rate, because the most common band here is Band D (21.3% of the stock) and 25.1% of dwellings are banded below D. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Cardiff, Powys, Ceredigion, Flintshire. Property counts are from the VOA 2025 stock release; the weighting is our calculation.
How did Monmouthshire Council Tax change for 2026-27?
Band D moved from £2,277.19 to £2,416.50, a 6.12% rise. Its competition rank by annual increase is 42nd of 350; the closest movements include East Renfrewshire, Orkney Islands, Wigan.
Advice boundary for Monmouthshire
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. Monmouthshire'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 Canterbury, St Albans, Crawley, North West Leicestershire, then Slough, Great Yarmouth. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Cardiff, Powys, Ceredigion, Flintshire. For a binding figure consult your Monmouthshire 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 Monmouthshire are the overall average Band D across bands A to I, including police and community precepts. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Canterbury, St Albans, Crawley, North West Leicestershire, then Slough, Great Yarmouth.