Council

Vale of White Horse

A shire district in Oxfordshire. Oxfordshire County Council also sets council tax here.

How much is council tax in Vale of White Horse in 2026/27?

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

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Band A, 2026/27, for the year £1,718.29 £171.83 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 £80.41 (4.9%) £1,637.88 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 B, 2026/27, for the year £2,004.68 £200.47 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 £93.82 (4.9%) £1,910.86 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 £2,291.06 £229.11 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 £107.22 (4.9%) £2,183.84 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 £2,577.44 £257.74 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 £120.62 (4.9%) £2,456.82 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 £3,150.20 £315.02 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 £147.42 (4.9%) £3,002.78 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 £3,722.97 £372.30 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 £174.23 (4.9%) £3,548.74 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 £4,295.73 £429.57 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 £201.03 (4.9%) £4,094.70 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 £5,154.88 £515.49 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 £241.24 (4.9%) £4,913.64 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.

Vale of White Horse 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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Who receives your council tax

Band D bill breakdown in Vale of White Horse

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.

Vale of White Horse: published Band D components, 2026/27
Part of the billCharging bodyAnnual Band D
Council, including average local preceptsVale of White Horse£272.38
County or GLAOxfordshire£2,006.78
PoliceThames Valley PCC£298.28
FireNo separate precept reported£0.00
Combined authorityNo separate precept reported£0.00
Published area average, including all precepts£2,577.44

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 £166.69. This is a separate measure, not an additional charge.

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 Vale of White Horse

69 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 69 records shown.

Vale of White Horse: local Band D precepts as reported in the 2026/27 return
Parish or local body2025/262026/27Annual change
AbingdonPrecepting parish£160.73£168.33+£7.60
Appleford on ThamesPrecepting parish£145.02£144.23-£0.79
Appleton with EatonPrecepting parish£72.70£128.23+£55.53
Ardington with LockingePrecepting parish£78.99£88.44+£9.45
AshburyPrecepting parish£66.52£70.83+£4.31
BaulkingPrecepting parish£12.07£12.48+£0.41
BesselsleighPrecepting parish£2.38£2.35-£0.03
BlewburyPrecepting parish£155.18£168.85+£13.67
Botley and North HinkseyPrecepting parish£60.51£76.12+£15.61
BourtonPrecepting parish£28.06£29.26+£1.20
BucklandPrecepting parish£22.40£23.44+£1.04
BuscotPrecepting parish£30.96£30.51-£0.45
Charney BassettPrecepting parish£67.96£54.28-£13.68
ChildreyPrecepting parish£67.46£69.73+£2.27
ChiltonPrecepting parish£39.69£46.32+£6.63
ColeshillPrecepting parish£18.06£16.64-£1.42
Compton BeauchampNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
CumnorPrecepting parish£32.63£34.07+£1.44
DenchworthPrecepting parish£10.93£10.79-£0.14
DraytonPrecepting parish£113.47£123.62+£10.15
East ChallowPrecepting parish£113.29£123.89+£10.60
East HanneyPrecepting parish£121.00£123.41+£2.41
East HendredPrecepting parish£83.89£87.87+£3.98
Eaton HastingsNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
FaringdonPrecepting parish£166.22£172.01+£5.79
FernhamPrecepting parish£20.19£8.15-£12.04
FrilfordPrecepting parish£19.38£20.39+£1.01
Fyfield and TubneyPrecepting parish£40.03£44.73+£4.70
GarfordPrecepting parish£98.35£112.03+£13.68
GooseyNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
Great CoxwellPrecepting parish£85.20£92.12+£6.92
GrovePrecepting parish£148.64£150.28+£1.64
HarwellPrecepting parish£93.88£103.19+£9.31
HatfordPrecepting parish£7.44£7.92+£0.48
Hinton WaldristPrecepting parish£33.99£65.06+£31.07
KenningtonPrecepting parish£86.90£91.10+£4.20
Kingston Bagpuize with SouthmoorPrecepting parish£69.94£69.95+£0.01
Kingston LislePrecepting parish£82.47£85.37+£2.90
Letcombe BassettPrecepting parish£21.40£21.54+£0.14
Letcombe RegisPrecepting parish£61.00£60.27-£0.73
Little CoxwellPrecepting parish£16.03£15.08-£0.95
LittleworthPrecepting parish£16.45£17.04+£0.59
LongcotPrecepting parish£32.49£31.89-£0.60
LongworthPrecepting parish£75.26£75.52+£0.26
LyfordNon-precepting parish£0.00£0.00£0.00
MarchamPrecepting parish£82.52£82.52£0.00
MiltonPrecepting parish£47.00£49.73+£2.73
PuseyPrecepting parish£23.92£23.58-£0.34
RadleyPrecepting parish£66.06£69.36+£3.30
ShellingfordPrecepting parish£11.22£11.17-£0.05
ShrivenhamPrecepting parish£129.14£134.31+£5.17
South HinkseyPrecepting parish£115.08£117.74+£2.66
SparsholtPrecepting parish£36.46£37.62+£1.16
St. Helen WithoutPrecepting parish£61.76£65.08+£3.32
Stanford in the ValePrecepting parish£28.83£29.72+£0.89
SteventonPrecepting parish£40.03£41.37+£1.34
SunningwellPrecepting parish£79.79£86.07+£6.28
Sutton CourtenayPrecepting parish£76.09£79.98+£3.89
UffingtonPrecepting parish£85.24£88.72+£3.48
UptonPrecepting parish£119.26£167.31+£48.05
WantagePrecepting parish£79.47£81.28+£1.81
WatchfieldPrecepting parish£47.47£47.87+£0.40
West ChallowPrecepting parish£26.71£28.74+£2.03
West HanneyPrecepting parish£44.33£44.91+£0.58
West HendredPrecepting parish£64.18£64.44+£0.26
Western ValleyPrecepting parish£60.89£67.49+£6.60
WoolstonePrecepting parish£36.12£40.61+£4.49
WoottonPrecepting parish£69.10£69.50+£0.40
WythamPrecepting parish£41.12£40.33-£0.79

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 Vale of White Horse 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 shire areas, 2026/27 £2,452 up 4.6% 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 Vale of White Horse figure. Band D for every council in South East.

How has Band D in Vale of White Horse changed?

2024/25: £2,341.57 £2,341.57 2024/25 2025/26: £2,456.82 £2,456.82 2025/26 2026/27: £2,577.44 £2,577.44 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 Vale of White Horse, as published each year
YearBand DSource
2024/25 £2,341.57 MHCLG Table 8
2025/26 £2,456.82 MHCLG Table 9
2026/27 £2,577.44 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

Vale of White Horse area charges, including average parish precepts
Band2024/252025/262026/27Two-year change
A£1,561.05£1,637.88£1,718.29£157.24
B£1,821.22£1,910.86£2,004.68£183.46
C£2,081.40£2,183.84£2,291.06£209.66
D£2,341.57£2,456.82£2,577.44£235.87
E£2,861.92£3,002.78£3,150.20£288.28
F£3,382.27£3,548.74£3,722.97£340.70
G£3,902.62£4,094.70£4,295.73£393.11
H£4,683.14£4,913.64£5,154.88£471.74

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 34 published area figures for Vale of White Horse, from 1993/94 to 2026/27. This series is generally rounded to whole pounds, so it can differ from the penny figures in the recent band tables.

£511 to £2,577(+404.3% 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
Vale of White Horse: published Band D history, displayed pounds
YearWhole-area averageCouncil excluding parishesCouncil including average parishes
1993/94£511Unavailable£44
1994/95£489Unavailable£30
1995/96£518Unavailable£23
1996/97£578£31£55
1997/98£614£49£74
1998/99£674£59£86
1999/00£749£64£91
2000/01£811£69£98
2001/02£870£74£107
2002/03£954£79£113
2003/04£1,097£84£120
2004/05£1,173£88£128
2005/06£1,226£93£134
2006/07£1,283£97£141
2007/08£1,336£102£148
2008/09£1,392£107£158
2009/10£1,447£112£165
2010/11£1,492£117£176
2011/12£1,493£117£177
2012/13£1,493£117£177
2013/14£1,520£117£178
2014/15£1,548£117£179
2015/16£1,576£117£180
2016/17£1,635£117£186
2017/18£1,711£122£195
2018/19£1,811£127£202
2019/20£1,883£132£208
2020/21£1,961£137£217
2021/22£2,029£142£224
2022/23£2,124£147£231
2023/24£2,231£152£240
2024/25£2,342£157£252
2025/26£2,457£162£262
2026/27£2,577£167£272

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 Vale of White Horse?

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.

Vale of White Horse council's own Band D, 2026/27 £166.69 up 3.09% on 2025/26, as published

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

Oxfordshire County Council's Band D, 2026/27 £2,006.78 up 4.99% on 2025/26, as published

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

How much every council raised its own share this year.

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