Stockport Council Tax 2026
North West, England · 133,670 domestic properties
According to MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026-27, Stockport's Band D Council Tax is £2,618.90 for 2026-27, the 24th highest of 350 UK billing authorities (higher than 93% of them) and 12% above the UK average of £2,337.00. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Walsall, Isle of Wight, Durham, Broxtowe, then South Hams, Reading. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Westmorland and Furness, Torridge, North Warwickshire, Wyre.
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 Walsall, Isle of Wight, Durham, Broxtowe, then South Hams, Reading. See our methodology page for the full source-to-figure lineage.
- £2,618.90
- Band D charge · 2026 statutory
- Among the highest in the UK
- +5.80%
- year-on-year vs £2,475.31
- Upper-quarter rise
- +12.1%
- vs UK avg £2,337.00
- £5,237.80
- Band H · 18/9 of Band D
Nearest published Band D rates sit with Walsall, Isle of Wight, Durham, Broxtowe, then South Hams, Reading. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Westmorland and Furness, Torridge, North Warwickshire, Wyre. Open Walsall for the closest published Band D on the same vintage.
Stockport · year-on-year Band D
What changed for Stockport
Stockport's Band D Council Tax rose from £2,475.31 (2025-26) to £2,618.90 (2026-27). Among 350 billing authorities by percentage rise, it ranks 54.
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 changesStockport bands A-H schedule
Per-band charge 2026
Stockport's nearest Band D charges nationwide
Stockport is 24th of 350 on the national Band D list at £2,618.90. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Walsall, Isle of Wight, Durham, Broxtowe, then South Hams, Reading. The six closest published 2026-27 rates, led by Walsall, 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 North West ranking further down when you care about local neighbours, and the stock-weighted average when you care what most of Stockport's 133,670 dwellings actually pay. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Westmorland and Furness, Torridge, North Warwickshire, Wyre.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Walsall | £2,627.48 | +£8.58 |
| Isle of Wight | £2,625.79 | +£6.89 |
| Durham | £2,622.15 | +£3.25 |
| Broxtowe | £2,618.21 | −£0.69 |
| South Hams | £2,615.22 | −£3.68 |
| Reading | £2,612.77 | −£6.13 |
Band A–H charge table (2026/2027)
| Band | Annual Charge | Monthly | Sole occupant (−25%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | £1,745.93 | £174.59 | £1,309.45 |
| B | £2,036.92 | £203.69 | £1,527.69 |
| C | £2,327.91 | £232.79 | £1,745.93 |
| D | £2,618.90 | £261.89 | £1,964.18 |
| E | £3,200.88 | £320.09 | £2,400.66 |
| F | £3,782.86 | £378.29 | £2,837.15 |
| G | £4,364.83 | £436.48 | £3,273.62 |
| H | £5,237.80 | £523.78 | £3,928.35 |
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 Stockport's 133,670 properties actually pay
Most homes in Stockport sit in Band A, the bottom of the valuation list: 31,840 of 133,670 dwellings (23.8%). 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. It takes 3 bands — A, B, C — to cover half the stock, a wider spread than most authorities show. 67.3% 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 £2,388.12 per dwelling, £230.78 (8.8%) below the £2,618.90 Band D headline, because most of the stock sits in bands charged at less than the Band D rate. On that measure Stockport is 100th of 318 authorities with published stock counts, against a £2,269.00 average. That places Stockport 4th of the 35 billing authorities in North West, above the regional median of £2,089.63.
How to read this stock pattern
Band D is a poor description of the largest group in Stockport'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 £2,388.12 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.
Stockport 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.
Stockport sits in the upper quarter of North West on the stock-weighted ordering, above the regional median of £2,089.63. 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: East Riding of Yorkshire
East Riding of Yorkshire is an exceptionally close stock-shape match for Stockport: moving 2.6% 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 is lower on the ladder at Band C: Stockport has 21.7% of dwellings there, against 20.0% in East Riding of Yorkshire. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
- A smaller distinction sits at lower Band B, where East Riding of Yorkshire holds 23.1% of its stock and Stockport holds 21.8%. 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 G. Stockport places 2.7% of dwellings there versus 2.1% for East Riding of Yorkshire, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
- A smaller distinction is at reference Band D: its share is 14.9% in Stockport and 15.5% in East Riding of Yorkshire. The familiar benchmark represents a larger slice of the peer's housing stock.
How the wider profile compares
Across Bands A to C the combined shares differ by only 0.2%. 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 0.4%. 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 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 leans toward East Riding of Yorkshire
- Band C leans toward Stockport
- Band D leans toward East Riding of Yorkshire
- Band E leans toward East Riding of Yorkshire
- Band F is closely balanced
- Band G leans toward Stockport
- Band H is closely balanced
This sequence is read from the lowest published band to the highest.
Other close England matches for Stockport: Westmorland and Furness (2.9% redistribution distance); Torridge (3.6% redistribution distance); North Warwickshire (3.8% redistribution distance); Wyre (3.8% redistribution distance). Ranked across every published band in the England valuation system, this shortlist shows whether East Riding of Yorkshire stands alone or sits in a cluster of similarly shaped authorities.
| Band | Properties | Share of stock | Annual charge |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 31,840 | 23.8% | £1,745.93 |
| B | 29,180 | 21.8% | £2,036.92 |
| C | 28,940 | 21.7% | £2,327.91 |
| D | 19,930 | 14.9% | £2,618.90 |
| E | 13,350 | 10.0% | £3,200.88 |
| F | 6,580 | 4.9% | £3,782.86 |
| G | 3,620 | 2.7% | £4,364.83 |
| H | 230 | 0.2% | £5,237.80 |
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 Stockport 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.
- Folkestone & Hythe£2,394.26
- Huntingdonshire£2,392.75
- North Devon£2,387.71
- Dartford£2,379.88
- Bedford£2,378.54
Stockport's nearest year-on-year movers
Stockport moved Band D from £2,475.31 to £2,618.90 (+5.80%, competition rank 54th of 350). The closest published movements sit with Tameside, Bury, Oldham.
How Stockport compares in North West
Among the 35 billing authorities in North West, Stockport's 2026-27 Band D charge of £2,618.90 ranks 3rd of 35, higher than 91% of them (£135.90 above the North West average of £2,483.00). Its nearest-charged neighbours in the region:
Regional high-charge outlier: this authority sits in the costliest fifth of North West.
| Region rank | Council | Band D 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | Liverpool | £2,673.59 |
| 2nd | Pendle | £2,640.18 |
| 3rd | Stockport | £2,618.90 |
| 4th | Oldham | £2,602.23 |
| 5th | Rochdale | £2,600.83 |
Regional rank out of 35 North West billing authorities by 2026-27 Band D charge (1 = dearest). See the full UK ranking or the complete directory.
Questions answered from Stockport's data
These answers use Stockport's £2,618.90 Band D rate, the England statutory multipliers, and the VOA stock mix (modal Band A, 67.3% below D).
Is Stockport Council Tax above the UK average?
Stockport's 2026-27 Band D rate is £2,618.90, 12.1% above the UK average of £2,337.00. It has competition rank 24th of 350, with equal charges sharing a rank. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Walsall, Isle of Wight, Durham, Broxtowe, then South Hams, Reading.
Which councils have charges closest to Stockport?
The closest published Band D rates are Walsall (£2,627.48), Isle of Wight (£2,625.79), Durham (£2,622.15), Broxtowe (£2,618.21), South Hams (£2,615.22), Reading (£2,612.77). The comparison table above shows the six nearest authorities and the exact difference from Stockport.
What is the average Council Tax bill in Stockport?
Across Stockport's 133,670 domestic properties, the stock-weighted average charge is £2,388.12 for 2026-27. That is £230.78 below the £2,618.90 Band D rate, because the most common band here is Band A (23.8% of the stock) and 67.3% of dwellings are banded below D. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Westmorland and Furness, Torridge, North Warwickshire, Wyre. Property counts are from the VOA 2025 stock release; the weighting is our calculation.
How did Stockport Council Tax change for 2026-27?
Band D moved from £2,475.31 to £2,618.90, a 5.80% rise. Its competition rank by annual increase is 54th of 350; the closest movements include Tameside, Bury, Oldham.
Advice boundary for Stockport
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. Stockport is a metropolitan borough: own charge plus policing and fire precepts, with parish elements uncommon. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Walsall, Isle of Wight, Durham, Broxtowe, then South Hams, Reading. Closest published housing-stock shapes include Westmorland and Furness, Torridge, North Warwickshire, Wyre. For a binding figure consult your Stockport 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 Stockport are the area Band D and statutory band multiples with no county tier. Nearest published Band D rates sit with Walsall, Isle of Wight, Durham, Broxtowe, then South Hams, Reading.