Sources and method

Updated 24 October 2026

Every number on this site comes from official statistics published by the government. Each page names the source behind each answer and the date it was published.

Council tax by council: MHCLG Table 10

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government publishes "Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England" each March. Its Table 10 gives, for every council that sends bills, the council's own Band D amount without parish precepts, and the Band D amounts of the county council or Greater London Authority, the police and crime commissioner, the fire authority and any combined authority. It also names each of those bodies. Council Tax statistics on GOV.UK

Council tax by parish: MHCLG town and parish tables

"Council Tax statistics for town and parish councils in England" follows each May. For every parish it gives the precept (the amount the parish asks the council to collect), the parish's tax base (its homes counted as Band D equivalents) and the parish's Band D amount, for this year and last. Live tables on Council Tax

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How a parish's bill is worked out

The parish tables give only the parish's own part, so each parish's full Band D bill is the council's own Band D, plus the county, police, fire and combined authority Band D amounts, plus the parish's Band D precept. Every home in a council area pays the same amounts to the council and the larger bodies, so the parish precept is what makes bills differ between parishes in the same district.

This was checked against councils' own published charges: for Chichester district it matches the council's figure for every band in all 67 parishes, in both 2025-26 and 2026-27, to the penny. The one difference in Chichester's early 2026-27 schedule was a draft figure for Chichester City, set two days before the city council's own decision.

The other bands are fixed fractions of Band D set in law: Band A is 6/9, B 7/9, C 8/9, E 11/9, F 13/9, G 15/9 and H 18/9. Councils work out each body's part of each band and round it to the penny before adding the parts up, so a band can be a penny different from the whole Band D bill multiplied by its fraction. This site does the same. Where a parish's neighbour sits in another council, its figure is worked out the same way; that council's own schedule can round a part differently and come out a penny apart, and each council's figures are checked against its own schedule as it goes live.

Where this method is not exact

Some councils charge "special expenses" in only part of their area, for example for parks or cemeteries that only some residents use. Their own Band D in Table 10 is then an average, and the simple sum is not exact for each parish. Some towns without a parish council pay a charter trustees' precept instead. Parish pages for those councils are only published once their own schedules have been checked.

Which parishes are next door

Each parish page lists the parishes, and areas without a parish council, that share at least 100 metres of border with it, using the Office for National Statistics' parish boundaries ("Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas, December 2025"). Parishes are matched between the MHCLG tables and ONS by name within each council, with every mismatch checked by hand.

What the figures are not

They are Band D amounts for a home with two adults. A home with one adult gets 25% off, and other discounts, exemptions, premiums on empty and second homes, and council tax support all change what a household pays. Your band is set by the Valuation Office Agency; your bill comes from your council.

Dates

Each page shows when MHCLG published its figures and when we last checked the sources. Figures change once a year, when the new tables are published; the "updated" date only moves when a figure on the page changes.

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