Council

Buckinghamshire

A unitary authority in South East.

How much is council tax in Buckinghamshire in 2026/27?

Choose your band for the published yearly charge, before discounts.

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Band A, 2026/27, for the year £1,684.39 £168.44 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band A up £83.37 (5.2%) £1,601.02 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Band B, 2026/27, for the year £1,965.12 £196.51 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band B up £97.26 (5.2%) £1,867.86 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Band C, 2026/27, for the year £2,245.85 £224.58 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band C up £111.16 (5.2%) £2,134.69 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Band D, 2026/27, for the year £2,526.58 £252.66 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band D up £125.05 (5.2%) £2,401.53 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Band E, 2026/27, for the year £3,088.04 £308.80 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band E up £152.84 (5.2%) £2,935.20 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Band F, 2026/27, for the year £3,649.50 £364.95 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band F up £180.62 (5.2%) £3,468.88 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Band G, 2026/27, for the year £4,210.97 £421.10 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band G up £208.42 (5.2%) £4,002.55 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Band H, 2026/27, for the year £5,053.16 £505.32 a month over ten instalments, rounded

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, published 25 March 2026.

Area average including parish precepts. Your exact bill and any discounts can differ.

Change on 2025/26, Band H up £250.10 (5.2%) £4,803.06 in 2025/26

Calculated from two published tables. Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9, and Table 9 for 2025 to 2026, published 25 March 2026.

Monthly equivalents divide the annual charge by ten and round to pennies. Actual bill instalments can differ.

Every band includes the share of every body that sets council tax here, such as the police and, where they exist, the county council, the fire authority and parish councils, with parish precepts as an average. A home in a parish with its own precept pays a different amount, and discounts such as the single person discount are not taken off.

Buckinghamshire council area
Source: Office for National Statistics, May 2026.

Illustrative area boundary. Parish charges and individual property bands vary within it.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Licensed under OGL v3.0.

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England features only. ArcGIS generalisation tolerance 0.001 degrees, five decimal places. Illustrative boundaries, not property or billing boundaries. Joined by exact LAD26CD only.

Who receives your council tax

Band D bill breakdown in Buckinghamshire

These are the published 2026/27 area averages. Parish charges are averaged into the council line. They are already included in the total and must not be added again.

Buckinghamshire: published Band D components, 2026/27
Part of the billCharging bodyAnnual Band D
Council, including average local preceptsBuckinghamshire£2,138.84
County or GLANo separate precept reported£0.00
PoliceThames Valley PCC£298.28
FireBuckinghamshire Fire£89.46
Combined authorityNo separate precept reported£0.00
Published area average, including all precepts£2,526.58

Adult social care is included in council charges. Police and fire may be funded within another line, including a combined-authority or GLA charge. A zero separate line does not mean the service is absent. The named bodies come from MHCLG's billing-area mapping for this year.

The council's own Band D, excluding local precepts, is £2,037.50. This is a separate measure, not an additional charge.

This council reports special expenses charged in part of its area. Its average council share cannot be treated as a uniform charge for every address. Use the council's local schedule for an exact bill.

Source: Council tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027: Table 10, Data_Billing and Precepting_Bodies. Retrieved 2026-10-05. Download data and checksums.

Parish and local precepts in Buckinghamshire

172 records in the national parish return, including any ceased bodies. These are individual Band D local charges, not full bills. Other property bands are not inferred. Match the charging locality to your council bill.

Do not add these amounts to the area average above: that already includes average local precepts. Grouped parishes and charter trustees can have overlapping charging areas. A postcode alone cannot establish every charge on a property.

All 172 records shown.

Buckinghamshire: local Band D precepts as reported in the 2026/27 return
Parish or local body2025/262026/27Annual change
AddingtonNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
AdstockPrecepting parish£79.86£83.27+£3.41
AkeleyPrecepting parish£88.01£105.62+£17.61
AmershamPrecepting parish£154.68£168.03+£13.35
AshendonPrecepting parish£144.17£151.76+£7.59
Ashley GreenPrecepting parish£50.92£63.12+£12.20
Aston AbbottsPrecepting parish£109.05£105.45-£3.60
Aston ClintonPrecepting parish£141.82£152.80+£10.98
Aston SandfordNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
AylesburyPrecepting parish£134.03£148.94+£14.91
Barton HartshornNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
BeachamptonPrecepting parish£26.22£35.75+£9.53
BeaconsfieldPrecepting parish£87.10£94.04+£6.94
BerryfieldsPrecepting parish£78.37£96.09+£17.72
BiddlesdenNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
BiertonPrecepting parish£49.70£51.19+£1.49
Bledlow cum SaundertonPrecepting parish£15.45£17.00+£1.55
BoarstallPrecepting parish£16.59£16.59£0.00
BradenhamPrecepting parish£49.15£54.53+£5.38
BrillPrecepting parish£103.16£108.32+£5.16
Broughton HamletPrecepting parish£24.86£24.86£0.00
BuckinghamPrecepting parish£233.28£246.25+£12.97
Buckingham ParkPrecepting parish£182.41£190.31+£7.90
BucklandPrecepting parish£105.42£109.63+£4.21
BurnhamPrecepting parish£159.37£167.32+£7.95
Calvert GreenPrecepting parish£102.64£104.69+£2.05
Chalfont St. GilesPrecepting parish£91.31£94.85+£3.54
Chalfont St. PeterPrecepting parish£82.72£93.46+£10.74
CharndonPrecepting parish£156.17£157.39+£1.22
ChartridgePrecepting parish£20.35£21.06+£0.71
ChearsleyPrecepting parish£129.05£128.39-£0.66
CheddingtonPrecepting parish£149.79£155.51+£5.72
CheniesPrecepting parish£57.12£42.07-£15.05
Chepping WycombePrecepting parish£68.97£75.83+£6.86
CheshamPrecepting parish£154.35£196.57+£42.22
Chesham BoisPrecepting parish£58.72£60.48+£1.76
ChetwodeNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
ChiltonPrecepting parish£56.03£60.23+£4.20
Cholesbury cum St. LeonardsPrecepting parish£33.91£40.57+£6.66
ColdharbourPrecepting parish£139.27£151.27+£12.00
ColeshillPrecepting parish£46.60£51.21+£4.61
CreslowNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
CublingtonPrecepting parish£82.98£84.40+£1.42
CuddingtonPrecepting parish£128.00£128.00£0.00
DenhamPrecepting parish£103.87£103.84-£0.03
Dinton with Ford and UptonPrecepting parish£82.13£84.86+£2.73
DorneyPrecepting parish£76.26£79.76+£3.50
DortonNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
DownleyPrecepting parish£55.57£55.57£0.00
Drayton BeauchampPrecepting parish£9.58£9.58£0.00
Drayton ParslowPrecepting parish£140.69£146.31+£5.62
DuntonNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
East ClaydonPrecepting parish£123.53£129.09+£5.56
EdgcottPrecepting parish£93.61£92.01-£1.60
EdlesboroughPrecepting parish£138.15£145.06+£6.91
EllesboroughPrecepting parish£49.44£49.44£0.00
Farnham RoyalPrecepting parish£72.61£76.23+£3.62
FawleyNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
Fleet MarstonNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
FoscottNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
FulmerPrecepting parish£165.78£207.23+£41.45
Gawcott with LenboroughPrecepting parish£75.92£65.51-£10.41
Gerrards CrossPrecepting parish£75.36£67.83-£7.53
GranboroughPrecepting parish£97.40£102.98+£5.58
Great and Little HampdenPrecepting parish£50.07£49.71-£0.36
Great and Little Kimble cum MarshPrecepting parish£75.52£71.42-£4.10
Great BrickhillPrecepting parish£114.88£119.34+£4.46
Great HorwoodPrecepting parish£66.45£87.08+£20.63
Great MarlowPrecepting parish£23.61£23.56-£0.05
Great MissendenPrecepting parish£66.33£70.72+£4.39
Grendon UnderwoodPrecepting parish£45.14£52.94+£7.80
HaddenhamPrecepting parish£185.69£194.04+£8.35
HaltonPrecepting parish£141.44£149.92+£8.48
HambledenPrecepting parish£67.23£69.04+£1.81
HardwickPrecepting parish£90.51£100.02+£9.51
HazlemerePrecepting parish£72.26£72.26£0.00
HedgerleyPrecepting parish£59.06£59.06£0.00
HedsorNon-precepting parish£35.74£0.00-£35.74
High Wycombe Charter TrusteesCharter Trustee£2.43£2.43£0.00
HillesdenPrecepting parish£74.44£54.66-£19.78
HoggestonNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
HogshawNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
HughendenPrecepting parish£69.49£96.71+£27.22
HulcottPrecepting parish£103.23£107.55+£4.32
IbstonePrecepting parish£62.55£65.18+£2.63
IckfordPrecepting parish£64.00£67.20+£3.20
IverPrecepting parish£142.06£154.14+£12.08
IvinghoePrecepting parish£189.25£195.78+£6.53
KingsbrookPrecepting parish£242.29£240.93-£1.36
KingseyNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
KingswoodNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
Lacey GreenPrecepting parish£20.45£21.47+£1.02
Lane EndPrecepting parish£130.68£131.84+£1.16
Latimer & Ley HillPrecepting parish£53.10£55.24+£2.14
LeckhampsteadPrecepting parish£85.75£85.75£0.00
Lillingstone Dayrell with Luffield AbbeyNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
Lillingstone LovellNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
Little ChalfontPrecepting parish£93.67£98.33+£4.66
Little HorwoodPrecepting parish£86.83£112.88+£26.05
Little MarlowPrecepting parish£71.42£70.06-£1.36
Little MissendenPrecepting parish£69.78£69.44-£0.34
Long CrendonPrecepting parish£143.79£157.02+£13.23
Longwick cum IlmerPrecepting parish£39.04£40.60+£1.56
LudgershallPrecepting parish£56.31£55.72-£0.59
Maids MoretonPrecepting parish£107.04£108.54+£1.50
MarlowPrecepting parish£55.25£66.14+£10.89
Marlow BottomPrecepting parish£30.91£31.60+£0.69
Marsh GibbonPrecepting parish£61.28£64.04+£2.76
MarsworthPrecepting parish£72.99£75.94+£2.95
MedmenhamPrecepting parish£51.49£54.06+£2.57
MentmorePrecepting parish£94.24£94.64+£0.40
Middle ClaydonPrecepting parish£43.07£45.16+£2.09
MursleyPrecepting parish£122.87£128.51+£5.64
NashPrecepting parish£116.11£114.25-£1.86
Nether WinchendonPrecepting parish£20.15£19.84-£0.31
Newton LongvillePrecepting parish£169.31£176.92+£7.61
North MarstonPrecepting parish£111.56£117.14+£5.58
OakleyPrecepting parish£53.51£56.18+£2.67
OvingPrecepting parish£137.45£165.41+£27.96
PadburyPrecepting parish£92.85£92.85£0.00
PennPrecepting parish£31.47£32.72+£1.25
Piddington and Wheeler EndPrecepting parish£124.01£148.16+£24.15
PitchcottNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
PitstonePrecepting parish£131.92£141.59+£9.67
PoundonNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
Preston BissettPrecepting parish£48.38£51.85+£3.47
Princes RisboroughPrecepting parish£135.39£139.08+£3.69
QuaintonPrecepting parish£48.32£92.29+£43.97
Radclive cum ChackmorePrecepting parish£48.52£53.37+£4.85
RadnagePrecepting parish£93.55£92.85-£0.70
Seer GreenPrecepting parish£56.59£58.85+£2.26
ShabbingtonPrecepting parish£122.86£122.86£0.00
ShalstoneNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
SlaptonPrecepting parish£129.62£134.80+£5.18
SoulburyPrecepting parish£64.35£93.77+£29.42
Steeple ClaydonPrecepting parish£146.25£179.19+£32.94
StewkleyPrecepting parish£64.86£70.36+£5.50
Stoke HammondPrecepting parish£83.56£83.56£0.00
Stoke MandevillePrecepting parish£71.48£72.53+£1.05
Stoke PogesPrecepting parish£75.54£75.54£0.00
StokenchurchPrecepting parish£45.78£56.44+£10.66
Stone with Bishopstone and HartwellPrecepting parish£120.48£123.99+£3.51
StowePrecepting parish£109.75£112.89+£3.14
SwanbournePrecepting parish£123.04£122.38-£0.66
TaplowPrecepting parish£35.42£42.50+£7.08
The LeePrecepting parish£65.16£68.20+£3.04
ThornboroughPrecepting parish£111.19£113.35+£2.16
ThorntonNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
TingewickPrecepting parish£74.88£74.34-£0.54
TurvillePrecepting parish£47.05£40.33-£6.72
TurwestonPrecepting parish£76.06£81.42+£5.36
TwyfordPrecepting parish£86.38£96.69+£10.31
Upper WinchendonNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
WaddesdonPrecepting parish£166.04£186.79+£20.75
Water StratfordPrecepting parish£26.17£27.71+£1.54
WatermeadPrecepting parish£97.31£126.37+£29.06
WeedonPrecepting parish£72.62£76.21+£3.59
WendoverPrecepting parish£119.88£125.40+£5.52
West WycombePrecepting parish£81.24£83.50+£2.26
WestburyPrecepting parish£114.07£126.16+£12.09
WestcottPrecepting parish£90.16£99.18+£9.02
Weston TurvillePrecepting parish£64.66£74.38+£9.72
WexhamPrecepting parish£37.94£39.10+£1.16
WhaddonPrecepting parish£154.15£166.98+£12.83
WhitchurchPrecepting parish£73.93£69.97-£3.96
WingPrecepting parish£143.91£150.23+£6.32
Wingrave with RowshamPrecepting parish£86.76£91.10+£4.34
WinslowPrecepting parish£158.68£165.90+£7.22
WooburnPrecepting parish£107.93£114.30+£6.37
WoodhamNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
WorminghallPrecepting parish£47.50£47.50£0.00
Wotton UnderwoodPrecepting parish£11.88£11.88£0.00

Annual change is this year's reported charge minus the previous year's charge on the same source row. Missing and ceased entries remain distinct from published zero charges. A negative precept is retained where published.

Source: Council Tax statistics for town and parish councils in England: 2026 to 2027, Parish_Level_Data and Notes. Retrieved 2026-10-05. Download the national parish data, including precept income and tax bases.

How does Band D in Buckinghamshire compare?

England average area Band D, 2026/27 £2,392 up 4.9% on 2025/26

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 7, published 25 March 2026.

Average area Band D for unitary areas, 2026/27 £2,490 up 5.3% on 2025/26

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 7, published 25 March 2026.

Both averages include parish and adult social care precepts, the same basis as the Buckinghamshire figure. Band D for every council in South East.

How has Band D in Buckinghamshire changed?

2024/25: £2,286.13 £2,286.13 2024/25 2025/26: £2,401.53 £2,401.53 2025/26 2026/27: £2,526.58 £2,526.58 2026/27

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9 each year, linked in the table, published 25 March 2026.

Cash figures, not adjusted for inflation. Includes average parish precepts.

Area Band D in Buckinghamshire, as published each year
YearBand DSource
2024/25 £2,286.13 MHCLG Table 8
2025/26 £2,401.53 MHCLG Table 9
2026/27 £2,526.58 MHCLG Table 9

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 9 each year, linked in the table, published 25 March 2026.

Every band over time

Buckinghamshire area charges, including average parish precepts
Band2024/252025/262026/27Two-year change
A£1,524.09£1,601.02£1,684.39£160.30
B£1,778.10£1,867.86£1,965.12£187.02
C£2,032.12£2,134.69£2,245.85£213.73
D£2,286.13£2,401.53£2,526.58£240.45
E£2,794.16£2,935.20£3,088.04£293.88
F£3,302.19£3,468.88£3,649.50£347.31
G£3,810.22£4,002.55£4,210.97£400.75
H£4,572.26£4,803.06£5,053.16£480.90

Sources: MHCLG 2024/25 · MHCLG 2025/26 · MHCLG 2026/27 · Change calculated from the two published charges. Nominal amounts, before discounts.

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Long-term Band D history

The national live table holds 7 published area figures for Buckinghamshire, from 2020/21 to 2026/27. This series is generally rounded to whole pounds, so it can differ from the penny figures in the recent band tables.

£1,903 to £2,527(+32.8% in cash terms)

Not adjusted for inflation. A change in services or council structure can affect comparisons. Missing years stay missing; we do not join predecessor councils ourselves. MHCLG carries forward predecessor-area history only where its published series does so, including some district-to-unitary changes with unchanged boundaries.

View the full Band D history and separate council shares
Buckinghamshire: published Band D history, displayed pounds
YearWhole-area averageCouncil excluding parishesCouncil including average parishes
1993/94UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
1994/95UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
1995/96UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
1996/97UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
1997/98UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
1998/99UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
1999/00UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2000/01UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2001/02UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2002/03UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2003/04UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2004/05UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2005/06UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2006/07UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2007/08UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2008/09UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2009/10UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2010/11UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2011/12UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2012/13UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2013/14UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2014/15UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2015/16UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2016/17UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2017/18UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2018/19UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2019/20UnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
2020/21£1,903£1,551£1,621
2021/22£1,982£1,613£1,684
2022/23£2,068£1,677£1,755
2023/24£2,177£1,761£1,843
2024/25£2,286£1,848£1,937
2025/26£2,402£1,941£2,034
2026/27£2,527£2,038£2,139

The council-share columns are alternative measures, not additions to the whole-area figure. The excluding-parishes series begins in 1996/97. A council's own share can change when responsibilities transfer even where its area remains the same.

Source: Band D Council Tax figures 1993 onwards, revised April 2026, Area_CT, exc_PP and inc_PP. Download the historical series. Changes calculated from the displayed source values.

Who sets council tax in Buckinghamshire?

The figures below show each council's own share and its published annual change. The national breakdown above also identifies police, fire and combined-authority charges for this billing area.

Buckinghamshire council's own Band D, 2026/27 £2,037.50 up 4.99% on 2025/26, as published

Source: MHCLG, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 8a, published 25 March 2026.

How much every council raised its own share this year.

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