Council Tax Bands in the West Midlands 2026/27
Band D rates for all 30 West Midlands billing authorities in 2026/27, with year-on-year change: the seven metropolitan boroughs including Birmingham, Coventry and the Black Country, the unitary authorities of Stoke-on-Trent, Telford and Wrekin, Herefordshire and Shropshire, and the shire districts of Staffordshire, Warwickshire and Worcestershire. Unlike Greater Manchester and London, the regional mayor charges no mayoral precept. Click any council for the full Band A to H rate table.
Cheapest in the region
Dudley
£2,144.84
Most expensive in the region
Walsall
£2,627.48
Mayoral precept 2026/27
None
West Midlands mayor levies no council tax precept
West Midlands Band D Rates 2026/27
| Council | Band D 2026/27 |
|---|---|
| Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council | £2,144.84 |
| Stoke-on-Trent City Council | £2,183.12 |
| Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council | £2,197.26 |
| Sandwell Metropolitan Borough Council | £2,244.46 |
| Telford and Wrekin Council | £2,256.26 |
| Tamworth | £2,300.76 |
| Stafford | £2,302.68 |
| South Staffordshire | £2,313.67 |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | £2,334.25 |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | £2,338.21 |
| East Staffordshire | £2,351.34 |
| Lichfield | £2,351.90 |
| Birmingham City Council | £2,362.90 |
| Wychavon | £2,373.19 |
| Cannock Chase | £2,375.83 |
| Worcester | £2,405.81 |
| Malvern Hills | £2,450.92 |
| Warwick | £2,461.55 |
| Redditch | £2,462.95 |
| Bromsgrove | £2,478.65 |
| Rugby | £2,483.05 |
| Stratford-on-Avon | £2,484.17 |
| Nuneaton and Bedworth | £2,502.16 |
| Wyre Forest | £2,512.47 |
| Coventry City Council | £2,516.72 |
| Shropshire Council | £2,528.18 |
| North Warwickshire | £2,532.10 |
| City of Wolverhampton Council | £2,538.99 |
| Herefordshire Council | £2,574.37 |
| Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council | £2,627.48 |
Figures are the Band D total for the main billing area of each authority, including all precepts. Source: MHCLG, ‘Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England: 2026 to 2027’ (accredited official statistics, published 25 March 2026), Tables 9 and 10, Open Government Licence v3.0.
No West Midlands Mayoral Precept
The West Midlands is one of England's big devolution regions, but unlike London and Greater Manchester its mayor does not add a mayoral precept to your council tax bill. For 2026/27 the West Midlands Combined Authority balanced its budget without introducing one, and Mayor Richard Parker has repeatedly ruled a mayoral precept out. So a West Midlands Band D bill is made up of the borough's own element, the adult social care precept, and the police and fire precepts, with no equivalent of London's GLA charge or Greater Manchester's combined Mayoral precept.
The seven metropolitan boroughs (Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, and Wolverhampton) share the West Midlands Police precept, set by the mayor in their role as Police and Crime Commissioner, and the West Midlands Fire and Rescue Authority precept. Both are the same wherever you live across the metropolitan county, so the variation in total Band D bills between these boroughs reflects each council's own spending and the adult social care precept it levies.
Stoke-on-Trent sits in Staffordshire rather than the West Midlands metropolitan county, so its bill instead includes the Staffordshire Police and Crime Commissioner and Staffordshire Fire and Rescue precepts alongside the city council's own element.
Why West Midlands Bills Differ
Across the billing authorities, Band D bills run from £2,144.84 in Dudley to £2,627.48 in Walsall, a spread of £482.64 a year at Band D. With no mayoral precept smoothing the difference, the gap between boroughs comes from each council's own demand and its adult social care precept, plus the smaller variation between the West Midlands and Staffordshire police and fire authorities.
Birmingham, England's largest local authority and the most-searched council in the region, sits at £2,362.90 at Band D for 2026/27, up £117.49 (5.2%) on 2025/26. See the full Birmingham Band A to H rate table for the monthly figures and band breakdown.
Source: MHCLG, ‘Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England: 2026 to 2027’ (accredited official statistics, published 25 March 2026), Tables 9 and 10, Open Government Licence v3.0.