Shropshire Council Tax 2026
West Midlands, England · 152,940 domestic properties
According to MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026-27, Shropshire's Band D Council Tax is £2,528.18 for 2026-27, the 79th highest of 350 UK billing authorities (higher than 77% of them) and 8% above the UK average of £2,337.00. Nearest published Band D rates sit with North Warwickshire, Blaenau Gwent, Epsom & Ewell, Leicester City, then Buckinghamshire, Spelthorne. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Somerset, Rugby, Stafford, Huntingdonshire.
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 North Warwickshire, Blaenau Gwent, Epsom & Ewell, Leicester City, then Buckinghamshire, Spelthorne. See our methodology page for the full source-to-figure lineage.
- £2,528.18
- Band D charge · 2026 statutory
- Above the UK average
- +9.03%
- year-on-year vs £2,318.80
- Among the steepest rises
- +8.2%
- vs UK avg £2,337.00
- £5,056.36
- Band H · 18/9 of Band D
Nearest published Band D rates sit with North Warwickshire, Blaenau Gwent, Epsom & Ewell, Leicester City, then Buckinghamshire, Spelthorne. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Somerset, Rugby, Stafford, Huntingdonshire. Open North Warwickshire for the closest published Band D on the same vintage.
Shropshire · year-on-year Band D
What changed for Shropshire
Shropshire's Band D Council Tax rose from £2,318.80 (2025-26) to £2,528.18 (2026-27). Among 350 billing authorities by percentage rise, it ranks 6.
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 changesShropshire bands A-H schedule
Per-band charge 2026
Shropshire's nearest Band D charges nationwide
Shropshire is 79th of 350 on the national Band D list at £2,528.18. Nearest published Band D rates sit with North Warwickshire, Blaenau Gwent, Epsom & Ewell, Leicester City, then Buckinghamshire, Spelthorne. The six closest published 2026-27 rates, led by North Warwickshire, 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 West Midlands ranking further down when you care about local neighbours, and the stock-weighted average when you care what most of Shropshire's 152,940 dwellings actually pay. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Somerset, Rugby, Stafford, Huntingdonshire.
| Council | Band D | Difference |
|---|---|---|
| North Warwickshire | £2,532.10 | +£3.92 |
| Blaenau Gwent | £2,531.26 | +£3.08 |
| Epsom & Ewell | £2,530.84 | +£2.66 |
| Leicester City | £2,528.75 | +£0.57 |
| Buckinghamshire | £2,526.58 | −£1.60 |
| Spelthorne | £2,526.44 | −£1.74 |
Band A–H charge table (2026/2027)
| Band | Annual Charge | Monthly | Sole occupant (−25%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | £1,685.45 | £168.55 | £1,264.09 |
| B | £1,966.36 | £196.64 | £1,474.77 |
| C | £2,247.27 | £224.73 | £1,685.45 |
| D | £2,528.18 | £252.82 | £1,896.13 |
| E | £3,090.00 | £309.00 | £2,317.50 |
| F | £3,651.82 | £365.18 | £2,738.87 |
| G | £4,213.63 | £421.36 | £3,160.22 |
| H | £5,056.36 | £505.64 | £3,792.27 |
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 Shropshire's 152,940 properties actually pay
Shropshire's housing stock peaks below the reference point, in Band B, which covers 39,060 of 152,940 dwellings (25.5%). 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. It takes 3 bands — A, B, C — to cover half the stock, a wider spread than most authorities show. 64.4% 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 £2,367.83 per dwelling, £160.35 (6.3%) below the £2,528.18 Band D headline, because most of the stock sits in bands charged at less than the Band D rate. On that measure Shropshire is 107th of 318 authorities with published stock counts, against a £2,269.00 average. That places Shropshire 7th of the 30 billing authorities in West Midlands, above the regional median of £2,132.00.
How to read this stock pattern
Shropshire'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 B charge is seven-ninths of the Band D rate, and 64.4% 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.
Shropshire 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.
Shropshire sits in the upper quarter of West Midlands on the stock-weighted ordering, above the regional median of £2,132.00. 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: Forest of Dean
Forest of Dean is an exceptionally close stock-shape match for Shropshire: moving 2.2% 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 sits at lower Band C, where Forest of Dean holds 22.5% of its stock and Shropshire holds 20.9%. 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 F. Shropshire places 6.1% of dwellings there versus 5.4% for Forest of Dean, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
- A smaller distinction appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band G. Shropshire places 3.2% of dwellings there versus 2.5% for Forest of Dean, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
- A smaller distinction is at reference Band D: its share is 14.5% in Shropshire and 15.0% in Forest of Dean. The familiar benchmark represents a larger slice of the peer's housing stock.
How the wider profile compares
Forest of Dean is more concentrated across Bands A to C in aggregate, by 1.1% of its stock. Shropshire's closest match is therefore achieved despite the peer carrying more homes below the reference band.
Shropshire carries 1.6% more of its stock in Bands E and above than Forest of Dean. 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 B, 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 H is the most stable point in the comparison, with shares of 0.2% and 0.2%. 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 is closely balanced
- Band C leans toward Forest of Dean
- Band D leans toward Forest of Dean
- Band E is closely balanced
- Band F leans toward Shropshire
- Band G leans toward Shropshire
- Band H is closely balanced
This sequence is read from the lowest published band to the highest.
Other close England matches for Shropshire: Somerset (2.6% redistribution distance); Rugby (4.5% redistribution distance); Stafford (4.5% redistribution distance); Huntingdonshire (4.6% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether Forest of Dean stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.
| Band | Properties | Share of stock | Annual charge |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 27,520 | 18.0% | £1,685.45 |
| B | 39,060 | 25.5% | £1,966.36 |
| C | 31,920 | 20.9% | £2,247.27 |
| D | 22,120 | 14.5% | £2,528.18 |
| E | 17,730 | 11.6% | £3,090.00 |
| F | 9,390 | 6.1% | £3,651.82 |
| G | 4,840 | 3.2% | £4,213.63 |
| H | 360 | 0.2% | £5,056.36 |
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 Shropshire 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.
- Cheshire West and Chester£2,374.54
- Enfield£2,367.20
- Bracknell Forest£2,365.77
- Chelmsford£2,362.25
- Redbridge£2,360.45
Shropshire's nearest year-on-year movers
Shropshire moved Band D from £2,318.80 to £2,528.18 (+9.03%, competition rank 6th of 350). The closest published movements sit with East Dunbartonshire, Angus, Midlothian.
Steep-rise signal for Shropshire: the increase is at least 7%, so the movement cohort, not councils with a similar current charge, is the sharper budget-change comparison.
- East Dunbartonshire9.50%
- Angus9.38%
- Midlothian9.00%
- Perth & Kinross8.90%
- Falkirk8.77%
- Stirling8.75%
How Shropshire compares in West Midlands
Among the 30 billing authorities in West Midlands, Shropshire's 2026-27 Band D charge of £2,528.18 ranks 5th of 30, higher than 83% of them (£128.18 above the West Midlands average of £2,400.00). Its nearest-charged neighbours in the region:
Regional high-charge outlier: this authority sits in the costliest fifth of West Midlands.
| Region rank | Council | Band D 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|
| 3rd | Wolverhampton | £2,538.99 |
| 4th | North Warwickshire | £2,532.10 |
| 5th | Shropshire | £2,528.18 |
| 6th | Coventry | £2,516.72 |
| 7th | Wyre Forest | £2,512.47 |
Regional rank out of 30 West Midlands billing authorities by 2026-27 Band D charge (1 = dearest). See the full UK ranking or the complete directory.
Questions answered from Shropshire's data
These answers use Shropshire's £2,528.18 Band D rate, the England statutory multipliers, and the VOA stock mix (modal Band B, 64.4% below D).
Is Shropshire Council Tax above the UK average?
Shropshire's 2026-27 Band D rate is £2,528.18, 8.2% above the UK average of £2,337.00. It has competition rank 79th of 350, with equal charges sharing a rank. Nearest published Band D rates sit with North Warwickshire, Blaenau Gwent, Epsom & Ewell, Leicester City, then Buckinghamshire, Spelthorne.
Which councils have charges closest to Shropshire?
The closest published Band D rates are North Warwickshire (£2,532.10), Blaenau Gwent (£2,531.26), Epsom & Ewell (£2,530.84), Leicester City (£2,528.75), Buckinghamshire (£2,526.58), Spelthorne (£2,526.44). The comparison table above shows the six nearest authorities and the exact difference from Shropshire.
What is the average Council Tax bill in Shropshire?
Across Shropshire's 152,940 domestic properties, the stock-weighted average charge is £2,367.83 for 2026-27. That is £160.35 below the £2,528.18 Band D rate, because the most common band here is Band B (25.5% of the stock) and 64.4% of dwellings are banded below D. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Somerset, Rugby, Stafford, Huntingdonshire. Property counts are from the VOA 2025 stock release; the weighting is our calculation.
How did Shropshire Council Tax change for 2026-27?
Band D moved from £2,318.80 to £2,528.18, a 9.03% rise. Its competition rank by annual increase is 6th of 350; the closest movements include East Dunbartonshire, Angus, Midlothian.
Advice boundary for Shropshire
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. Shropshire is unitary, so this figure combines its own charge (including adult social care) with police and fire precepts where separate, plus any average parish precept. Nearest published Band D rates sit with North Warwickshire, Blaenau Gwent, Epsom & Ewell, Leicester City, then Buckinghamshire, Spelthorne. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Somerset, Rugby, Stafford, Huntingdonshire. For a binding figure consult your Shropshire 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 Shropshire are the area Band D and statutory band multiples with no county tier. Nearest published Band D rates sit with North Warwickshire, Blaenau Gwent, Epsom & Ewell, Leicester City, then Buckinghamshire, Spelthorne.