Vale of Glamorgan Council Tax 2026
Wales · 62,500 domestic properties
Vale of Glamorgan Band D is £2,231.54 for 2026-27, the 285th highest of 350 UK billing authorities (5% below the UK average of £2,337.00).
According to Welsh Government / StatsWales, Council Tax levels 2026-27, Vale of Glamorgan's published Band D Council Tax is £2,231.54 for 2026-27 (UNDER). Competition rank is 285th of 350 (higher than 19% of authorities).
- £2,231.54 Band D · UNDER
- 285th of 350 authorities
- -4.5% vs UK average
According to Welsh Government / StatsWales, Council Tax levels 2026-27, Vale of Glamorgan's Band D Council Tax is £2,231.54 for 2026-27 (UNDER), the 285th highest of 350 UK billing authorities (higher than 19% of them) and 5% below the UK average of £2,337.00.
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. See our methodology page for the full source-to-figure lineage.
- £2,231.54
- Band D charge · 2026 statutory
- Below the UK average
- +6.57%
- year-on-year vs £2,093.96
- Upper-quarter rise
- -4.5%
- vs UK avg £2,337.00
- £5,206.93
- Band I · 21/9 of Band D
Vale of Glamorgan · year-on-year Band D
What changed for Vale of Glamorgan
Vale of Glamorgan's Band D Council Tax rose from £2,093.96 (2025-26) to £2,231.54 (2026-27). Among 350 billing authorities by percentage rise, it ranks 38.
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 changesMHCLG/VOA position brief
Vale of Glamorgan Band D posture in the 2026-27 corpus
Entity-varying stamps from the joined MHCLG, Scottish CTAS and StatsWales extract plus VOA CTSOP stock counts, ABS(charge) peers, not map neighbours.
- £2,231.54 Published Band D 2026-27 UNDER
- 285th of 350 UK authorities 19th percentile
- +6.6% Year-on-year Band D STEEP
- 62,500 VOA dwellings on list DHEAVY
Band D charge neighbourhood
Published 2026-27 Band D among the nearest pound-gap peers (snapshot 2026-10-02).
Derived position reading
What the Vale of Glamorgan Band D figure shows
The published Band D charge of £2,231.54 places Vale of Glamorgan 285th out of 350 UK billing authorities when ordered from the highest charge down. That position is derived from the full authority table, rather than from a single quoted comparison. It is 4.5% below the simple UK average of £2,337.00, while the percentile shows that 19% of the recorded authorities have a lower Band D charge.
The more useful local comparison is Wales. Here, Vale of Glamorgan ranks 17th among 22 billing authorities, against a regional average of £2,326.00. The table of nearby authorities therefore compares published charges in the same geography, not property values or the level of service a household receives. Equal Band D charges share a position, so the ranking does not invent a difference where the underlying values match.
Band D is a statutory reference point, not a bill for every household. Charges for the other bands are calculated from the applicable national ratios, and discounts or exemptions can change an individual bill. This page is best used to understand the current published schedule and how this authority sits within the recorded 2026-27 council-tax corpus.
Vale of Glamorgan bands A-I schedule
Per-band charge 2026
Band A–I charge table (2026/2027)
| Band | Annual Charge | Monthly | Sole occupant (−25%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | £1,487.69 | £148.77 | £1,115.77 |
| B | £1,735.64 | £173.56 | £1,301.73 |
| C | £1,983.59 | £198.36 | £1,487.69 |
| D | £2,231.54 | £223.15 | £1,673.66 |
| E | £2,727.44 | £272.74 | £2,045.58 |
| F | £3,223.34 | £322.33 | £2,417.51 |
| G | £3,719.23 | £371.92 | £2,789.42 |
| H | £4,463.08 | £446.31 | £3,347.31 |
| I | £5,206.93 | £520.69 | £3,905.20 |
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 Vale of Glamorgan's 62,500 properties actually pay
Vale of Glamorgan's housing stock peaks below the reference point, in Band C, which covers 14,550 of 62,500 dwellings (23.3%). 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. VOA CTSOP stamp DHEAVY: 36.4% of dwellings here are banded below D.
Stock-weighted average £2,584.06 is £352.52 (15.8%) above Band D £2,231.54 - 52nd of 318 authorities with published counts (corpus mean £2,269.00). That places Vale of Glamorgan 2nd of the 22 billing authorities in Wales, above the regional median of £2,258.00.
Vale of Glamorgan property mix · A–C / D / E–I · DHEAVY
Sums to 62,500 VOA dwellings, band mix, not a household bill.
Closest housing-stock shape: Cardiff
Cardiff is the nearest available full-distribution peer for Vale of Glamorgan, although the match is not tight. Aligning the two published profiles would require 8.2% 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 is at reference Band D: its share is 19.1% in Vale of Glamorgan and 22.4% in Cardiff. The familiar benchmark represents a larger slice of the peer's housing stock.
- Another material separation appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band G. Vale of Glamorgan places 9.5% of dwellings there versus 6.4% for Cardiff, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
- Another material separation is lower on the ladder at Band C: Vale of Glamorgan has 23.3% of dwellings there, against 20.9% in Cardiff. That extra lower-band weight pulls its stock profile away from the peer.
- A smaller distinction appears in the upper part of the ladder at Band H. Vale of Glamorgan places 3.6% of dwellings there versus 1.7% for Cardiff, giving this profile the heavier upper-band tail at that point.
Other close Wales matches for Vale of Glamorgan: Monmouthshire (11.5% redistribution distance); Flintshire (12.7% redistribution distance); Powys (13.9% redistribution distance); Pembrokeshire (14.8% redistribution distance).
| Band | Properties | Share of stock | Annual charge |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | 1,520 | 2.4% | £1,487.69 |
| B | 6,710 | 10.7% | £1,735.64 |
| C | 14,550 | 23.3% | £1,983.59 |
| D | 11,920 | 19.1% | £2,231.54 |
| E | 10,790 | 17.3% | £2,727.44 |
| F | 7,740 | 12.4% | £3,223.34 |
| G | 5,930 | 9.5% | £3,719.23 |
| H | 2,270 | 3.6% | £4,463.08 |
| I | 1,070 | 1.7% | £5,206.93 |
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
Closest to Vale of Glamorgan on stock-weighted charge (DHEAVY) - a different ordering from Band D twins.
- Maidstone£2,595.64
- Winchester£2,590.44
- Brentwood£2,587.80
- Epping Forest£2,577.30
- Bromsgrove£2,572.64
Vale of Glamorgan's nearest year-on-year movers · STEEP
Vale of Glamorgan moved Band D from £2,093.96 to £2,231.54 (+6.57%, STEEP; competition rank 38th of 350). Closest published movements: Highland, East Ayrshire, Aberdeen City.
- Highland7.00%
- East Ayrshire6.90%
- Aberdeen City6.80%
- Conwy6.55%
- South Lanarkshire6.50%
- Caerphilly6.48%
How Vale of Glamorgan compares in Wales
Among the 22 billing authorities in Wales, Vale of Glamorgan's 2026-27 Band D charge of £2,231.54 ranks 17th of 22, higher than 23% of them (£94.46 below the Wales average of £2,326.00). Its nearest-charged neighbours in the region:
| Region rank | Council | Band D 2026-27 |
|---|---|---|
| 15th | Isle of Anglesey | £2,260.73 |
| 16th | Swansea | £2,238.29 |
| 17th | Vale of Glamorgan | £2,231.54 |
| 18th | Pembrokeshire | £2,166.15 |
| 19th | Torfaen | £2,155.68 |
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.
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. Vale of Glamorgan's overall average Band D (bands A to I) combines the council charge with police and average community council precepts. For a binding figure consult your Vale of Glamorgan Council Tax bill or the official gov.uk Council Tax service. Figures published in 2026 reflect the 2026/2027 financial year only.
UK directories, Band D rollup and band challenge
Charges shown for Vale of Glamorgan are the overall average Band D across bands A to I, including police and community precepts.