Newark & Sherwood Council Tax 2026
East Midlands, England · 58,790 domestic properties
According to MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026-27, Newark & Sherwood's Band D Council Tax is £2,682.10 for 2026-27, the 10th highest of 350 UK billing authorities (higher than 97% of them) and 15% above the UK average of £2,337.00. Nearest published Band D rates sit with West Devon, Rother, Oxford, Hastings, then Liverpool, Mid Devon. Closest published housing-stock shapes include North East Derbyshire, Stockton-on-Tees, Preston, Kirklees.
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 West Devon, Rother, Oxford, Hastings, then Liverpool, Mid Devon. See our methodology page for the full source-to-figure lineage.
- £2,682.10
- Band D charge · 2026 statutory
- Among the highest in the UK
- +3.87%
- year-on-year vs £2,582.22
- Lower-quarter rise
- +14.8%
- vs UK avg £2,337.00
- £5,364.20
- Band H · 18/9 of Band D
Nearest published Band D rates sit with West Devon, Rother, Oxford, Hastings, then Liverpool, Mid Devon. Closest published housing-stock shapes include North East Derbyshire, Stockton-on-Tees, Preston, Kirklees. Open West Devon for the closest published Band D on the same vintage.
Newark & Sherwood · year-on-year Band D
What changed for Newark & Sherwood
Newark & Sherwood's Band D Council Tax rose from £2,582.22 (2025-26) to £2,682.10 (2026-27). Among 350 billing authorities by percentage rise, it ranks 319.
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 changesNewark & Sherwood bands A-H schedule
Per-band charge 2026
Newark & Sherwood's nearest Band D charges nationwide
Newark & Sherwood is 10th of 350 on the national Band D list at £2,682.10. Nearest published Band D rates sit with West Devon, Rother, Oxford, Hastings, then Liverpool, Mid Devon. The six closest published 2026-27 rates, led by West Devon, 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 East Midlands ranking further down when you care about local neighbours, and the stock-weighted average when you care what most of Newark & Sherwood's 58,790 dwellings actually pay. Closest published housing-stock shapes include North East Derbyshire, Stockton-on-Tees, Preston, Kirklees.
National high-charge outlier: this rate is inside the costliest 10% of the UK corpus, so nearby national peers are a more useful benchmark than the UK average alone.
| Council | Band D | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| West Devon | £2,705.33 | +£23.23 |
| Rother | £2,700.95 | +£18.85 |
| Oxford | £2,678.40 | −£3.70 |
| Hastings | £2,676.58 | −£5.52 |
| Liverpool | £2,673.59 | −£8.51 |
| Mid Devon | £2,656.41 | −£25.69 |
Band A–H charge table (2026/2027)
| Band | Annual Charge | Monthly | Sole occupant (−25%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | £1,788.07 | £178.81 | £1,341.05 |
| B | £2,086.08 | £208.61 | £1,564.56 |
| C | £2,384.09 | £238.41 | £1,788.07 |
| D | £2,682.10 | £268.21 | £2,011.57 |
| E | £3,278.12 | £327.81 | £2,458.59 |
| F | £3,874.14 | £387.41 | £2,905.61 |
| G | £4,470.17 | £447.02 | £3,352.63 |
| H | £5,364.20 | £536.42 | £4,023.15 |
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 Newark & Sherwood's 58,790 properties actually pay
Most homes in Newark & Sherwood sit in Band A, the bottom of the valuation list: 24,320 of 58,790 dwellings (41.4%). 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. Bands A and C between them account for 57.8% of the stock. 73.2% 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 £2,328.58 per dwelling, £353.52 (13.2%) below the £2,682.10 Band D headline, because most of the stock sits in bands charged at less than the Band D rate. On that measure Newark & Sherwood is 121st of 318 authorities with published stock counts, against a £2,269.00 average. That places Newark & Sherwood 5th of the 35 billing authorities in East Midlands, above the regional median of £2,103.94.
How to read this stock pattern
Band D is a poor description of the largest group in Newark & Sherwood'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 £2,328.58 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.
This is a two-band centre rather than a single-band market. Bands A and C together contain 57.8% 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.
Newark & Sherwood sits in the upper quarter of East Midlands on the stock-weighted ordering, above the regional median of £2,103.94. This narrows the comparison from a UK rank to authorities facing the same broad regional context, while still correcting each one for its different band mix. The placement says the council's average published stock is relatively costly within that peer set; it does not convert the mean into an individual household charge.
Closest housing-stock shape: Northumberland
Northumberland is the closest full-distribution match for Newark & Sherwood. 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 C: Newark & Sherwood has 16.5% of dwellings there, against 13.4% in Northumberland. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
- Another material separation sits at lower Band A, where Northumberland holds 43.5% of its stock and Newark & Sherwood holds 41.4%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
- A smaller distinction sits at lower Band B, where Northumberland holds 16.4% of its stock and Newark & Sherwood holds 15.3%. 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. Newark & Sherwood places 7.8% of dwellings there versus 7.5% for Northumberland, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
How the wider profile compares
Across Bands A to C the combined shares differ by only 0.1%. That net figure can hide opposing band-level gaps, so the individual Band A, B and C comparisons above remain the safer guide to where the lower-band stock differs.
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 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 D is the most stable point in the comparison, with shares of 11.4% and 11.4%. 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 Northumberland
- Band B leans toward Northumberland
- Band C leans toward Newark & Sherwood
- Band D is closely balanced
- 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 Newark & Sherwood: North East Derbyshire (5.6% redistribution distance); Stockton-on-Tees (6.2% redistribution distance); Preston (6.5% redistribution distance); Kirklees (6.8% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Northumberland stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.
| Band | Properties | Share of stock | Annual charge |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 24,320 | 41.4% | £1,788.07 |
| B | 9,010 | 15.3% | £2,086.08 |
| C | 9,680 | 16.5% | £2,384.09 |
| D | 6,690 | 11.4% | £2,682.10 |
| E | 4,600 | 7.8% | £3,278.12 |
| F | 2,820 | 4.8% | £3,874.14 |
| G | 1,530 | 2.6% | £4,470.17 |
| H | 140 | 0.2% | £5,364.20 |
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 Newark & Sherwood 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.
- South Norfolk£2,336.20
- Wrexham£2,335.34
- Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole£2,328.03
- Canterbury£2,326.24
- Torridge£2,323.97
Newark & Sherwood's nearest year-on-year movers
Newark & Sherwood moved Band D from £2,582.22 to £2,682.10 (+3.87%, competition rank 319th of 350). The closest published movements sit with Preston, Rossendale, Braintree.
Muted-rise signal for Newark & Sherwood: the increase is below 4%, placing this authority among the slower-moving part of the current dataset.
- Preston3.95%
- Rossendale3.94%
- Braintree3.90%
- South Ribble3.85%
- Burnley3.81%
- Ribble Valley3.78%
How Newark & Sherwood compares in East Midlands
Among the 35 billing authorities in East Midlands, Newark & Sherwood's 2026-27 Band D charge of £2,682.10 ranks 3rd of 35, higher than 91% of them (£225.10 above the East Midlands average of £2,457.00). Its nearest-charged neighbours in the region:
Regional high-charge outlier: this authority sits in the costliest fifth of East Midlands.
| Region rank | Council | Band D 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | City of Nottingham | £2,755.39 |
| 2nd | Rutland | £2,737.58 |
| 3rd | Newark & Sherwood | £2,682.10 |
| 4th | Bassetlaw | £2,644.95 |
| 5th | Rushcliffe | £2,643.27 |
Regional rank out of 35 East Midlands billing authorities by 2026-27 Band D charge (1 = dearest). See the full UK ranking or the complete directory.
Questions answered from Newark & Sherwood's data
These answers use Newark & Sherwood's £2,682.10 Band D rate, the England statutory multipliers, and the VOA stock mix (modal Band A, 73.2% below D).
Is Newark & Sherwood Council Tax above the UK average?
Newark & Sherwood's 2026-27 Band D rate is £2,682.10, 14.8% above the UK average of £2,337.00. It has competition rank 10th of 350, with equal charges sharing a rank. Nearest published Band D rates sit with West Devon, Rother, Oxford, Hastings, then Liverpool, Mid Devon.
Which councils have charges closest to Newark & Sherwood?
The closest published Band D rates are West Devon (£2,705.33), Rother (£2,700.95), Oxford (£2,678.40), Hastings (£2,676.58), Liverpool (£2,673.59), Mid Devon (£2,656.41). The comparison table above shows the six nearest authorities and the exact difference from Newark & Sherwood.
What is the average Council Tax bill in Newark & Sherwood?
Across Newark & Sherwood's 58,790 domestic properties, the stock-weighted average charge is £2,328.58 for 2026-27. That is £353.52 below the £2,682.10 Band D rate, because the most common band here is Band A (41.4% of the stock) and 73.2% of dwellings are banded below D. Closest published housing-stock shapes include North East Derbyshire, Stockton-on-Tees, Preston, Kirklees. Property counts are from the VOA 2025 stock release; the weighting is our calculation.
How did Newark & Sherwood Council Tax change for 2026-27?
Band D moved from £2,582.22 to £2,682.10, a 3.87% rise. Its competition rank by annual increase is 319th of 350; the closest movements include Preston, Rossendale, Braintree.
Advice boundary for Newark & Sherwood
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. This area Band D is a two-tier total for Newark & Sherwood: district charge plus county, police, fire where separate, and the average parish precept across the district. Nearest published Band D rates sit with West Devon, Rother, Oxford, Hastings, then Liverpool, Mid Devon. Closest published housing-stock shapes include North East Derbyshire, Stockton-on-Tees, Preston, Kirklees. For a binding figure consult your Newark & Sherwood 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 Newark & Sherwood are the area Band D and statutory band multiples, already including county, police, fire and average parish precepts where they apply. Nearest published Band D rates sit with West Devon, Rother, Oxford, Hastings, then Liverpool, Mid Devon.