Rother Council Tax 2026
South East, England · 46,990 domestic properties
According to MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026-27, Rother's Band D Council Tax is £2,700.95 for 2026-27, the 9th highest of 350 UK billing authorities (higher than 97% of them) and 16% above the UK average of £2,337.00. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Gateshead, Bristol, West Devon, Newark & Sherwood, then Oxford, Hastings. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Bromsgrove, New Forest, South Hams, East Devon.
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 Gateshead, Bristol, West Devon, Newark & Sherwood, then Oxford, Hastings. See our methodology page for the full source-to-figure lineage.
- £2,700.95
- Band D charge · 2026 statutory
- Among the highest in the UK
- +5.45%
- year-on-year vs £2,561.29
- Upper-quarter rise
- +15.6%
- vs UK avg £2,337.00
- £5,401.90
- Band H · 18/9 of Band D
Nearest published Band D rates sit with Gateshead, Bristol, West Devon, Newark & Sherwood, then Oxford, Hastings. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Bromsgrove, New Forest, South Hams, East Devon. Open Gateshead for the closest published Band D on the same vintage.
Rother · year-on-year Band D
What changed for Rother
Rother's Band D Council Tax rose from £2,561.29 (2025-26) to £2,700.95 (2026-27). Among 350 billing authorities by percentage rise, it ranks 59.
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 changesRother bands A-H schedule
Per-band charge 2026
Rother's nearest Band D charges nationwide
Rother is 9th of 350 on the national Band D list at £2,700.95. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Gateshead, Bristol, West Devon, Newark & Sherwood, then Oxford, Hastings. The six closest published 2026-27 rates, led by Gateshead, 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 South East ranking further down when you care about local neighbours, and the stock-weighted average when you care what most of Rother's 46,990 dwellings actually pay. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Bromsgrove, New Forest, South Hams, East Devon.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Gateshead | £2,715.81 | +£14.86 |
| Bristol | £2,713.68 | +£12.73 |
| West Devon | £2,705.33 | +£4.38 |
| Newark & Sherwood | £2,682.10 | −£18.85 |
| Oxford | £2,678.40 | −£22.55 |
| Hastings | £2,676.58 | −£24.37 |
Band A–H charge table (2026/2027)
| Band | Annual Charge | Monthly | Sole occupant (−25%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | £1,800.63 | £180.06 | £1,350.47 |
| B | £2,100.74 | £210.07 | £1,575.55 |
| C | £2,400.84 | £240.08 | £1,800.63 |
| D | £2,700.95 | £270.09 | £2,025.71 |
| E | £3,301.16 | £330.12 | £2,475.87 |
| F | £3,901.37 | £390.14 | £2,926.03 |
| G | £4,501.58 | £450.16 | £3,376.19 |
| H | £5,401.90 | £540.19 | £4,051.42 |
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 Rother's 46,990 properties actually pay
Rother's housing stock peaks below the reference point, in Band C, which covers 10,240 of 46,990 dwellings (21.8%). 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. It takes 3 bands — C, D, E — to cover half the stock, a wider spread than most authorities show. 48.3% 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 £2,769.67 per dwelling, £68.72 (2.5%) above the £2,700.95 Band D headline. On that measure Rother is 25th of 318 authorities with published stock counts, against a £2,269.00 average. That places Rother 17th of the 64 billing authorities in South East, above the regional median of £2,511.00.
How to read this stock pattern
Rother'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 48.3% 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.
Rother 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 8 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.
Rother occupies the middle half of the South East stock-weighted distribution, above its £2,511.00 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: Dorset Council
Dorset Council is an exceptionally close stock-shape match for Rother: moving 3.0% 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 appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band G. Rother places 5.9% of dwellings there versus 4.4% for Dorset Council, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
- A smaller distinction sits at lower Band C, where Dorset Council holds 23.2% of its stock and Rother holds 21.8%. The peer is more bottom-weighted at this rung of the valuation list.
- A smaller distinction sits at lower Band B, where Dorset Council holds 17.0% of its stock and Rother holds 15.8%. 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. Rother places 16.4% of dwellings there versus 15.4% for Dorset Council, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
How the wider profile compares
Dorset Council is more concentrated across Bands A to C in aggregate, by 3.0% of its stock. Rother's closest match is therefore achieved despite the peer carrying more homes below the reference band.
Rother carries 2.8% more of its stock in Bands E and above than Dorset Council. The extra upper-tail weight is small enough for this to remain the nearest peer, but large enough to distinguish the two areas.
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 D is the most stable point in the comparison, with shares of 20.1% and 19.9%. 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 is closely balanced
- Band B leans toward Dorset Council
- Band C leans toward Dorset Council
- Band D is closely balanced
- Band E leans toward Rother
- Band F is closely balanced
- Band G leans toward Rother
- Band H is closely balanced
This sequence is read from the lowest published band to the highest.
Other close England matches for Rother: Bromsgrove (3.2% redistribution distance); New Forest (3.5% redistribution distance); South Hams (4.7% redistribution distance); East Devon (5.2% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Dorset Council stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.
| Band | Properties | Share of stock | Annual charge |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 5,040 | 10.7% | £1,800.63 |
| B | 7,420 | 15.8% | £2,100.74 |
| C | 10,240 | 21.8% | £2,400.84 |
| D | 9,440 | 20.1% | £2,700.95 |
| E | 7,690 | 16.4% | £3,301.16 |
| F | 4,110 | 8.7% | £3,901.37 |
| G | 2,770 | 5.9% | £4,501.58 |
| H | 280 | 0.6% | £5,401.90 |
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 Rother 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.
- Dorset Council£2,779.16
- Lewes£2,771.09
- Spelthorne£2,766.31
- Vale of White Horse£2,764.08
- Horsham£2,760.42
Rother's nearest year-on-year movers
Rother moved Band D from £2,561.29 to £2,700.95 (+5.45%, competition rank 59th of 350). The closest published movements sit with Denbighshire, Gwynedd, East Devon.
- Denbighshire5.50%
- Gwynedd5.49%
- East Devon5.45%
- Isle of Anglesey5.45%
- Ceredigion5.37%
- Northumberland5.37%
How Rother compares in South East
Among the 64 billing authorities in South East, Rother's 2026-27 Band D charge of £2,700.95 ranks 3rd of 64, higher than 95% of them (£225.95 above the South East average of £2,475.00). Its nearest-charged neighbours in the region:
Regional high-charge outlier: this authority sits in the costliest fifth of South East.
| Region rank | Council | Band D 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Lewes | £2,756.17 |
| 2nd | Wealden | £2,728.43 |
| 3rd | Rother | £2,700.95 |
| 4th | Oxford | £2,678.40 |
| 5th | Hastings | £2,676.58 |
Regional rank out of 64 South East billing authorities by 2026-27 Band D charge (1 = dearest). See the full UK ranking or the complete directory.
Questions answered from Rother's data
These answers use Rother's £2,700.95 Band D rate, the England statutory multipliers, and the VOA stock mix (modal Band C, 48.3% below D).
Is Rother Council Tax above the UK average?
Rother's 2026-27 Band D rate is £2,700.95, 15.6% above the UK average of £2,337.00. It has competition rank 9th of 350, with equal charges sharing a rank. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Gateshead, Bristol, West Devon, Newark & Sherwood, then Oxford, Hastings.
Which councils have charges closest to Rother?
The closest published Band D rates are Gateshead (£2,715.81), Bristol (£2,713.68), West Devon (£2,705.33), Newark & Sherwood (£2,682.10), Oxford (£2,678.40), Hastings (£2,676.58). The comparison table above shows the six nearest authorities and the exact difference from Rother.
What is the average Council Tax bill in Rother?
Across Rother's 46,990 domestic properties, the stock-weighted average charge is £2,769.67 for 2026-27. That is £68.72 above the £2,700.95 Band D rate, because the most common band here is Band C (21.8% of the stock) and 48.3% of dwellings are banded below D. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Bromsgrove, New Forest, South Hams, East Devon. Property counts are from the VOA 2025 stock release; the weighting is our calculation.
How did Rother Council Tax change for 2026-27?
Band D moved from £2,561.29 to £2,700.95, a 5.45% rise. Its competition rank by annual increase is 59th of 350; the closest movements include Denbighshire, Gwynedd, East Devon.
Advice boundary for Rother
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 Rother: district charge plus county, police, fire where separate, and the average parish precept across the district. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Gateshead, Bristol, West Devon, Newark & Sherwood, then Oxford, Hastings. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Bromsgrove, New Forest, South Hams, East Devon. For a binding figure consult your Rother 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 Rother 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 Gateshead, Bristol, West Devon, Newark & Sherwood, then Oxford, Hastings.