Full list of confirmed top-tier council tax rises in England

Here is a list of confirmed council tax rises for 2025/26 for all top-tier local authorities in England.

The list has been compiled by the PA news agency.

The data covers only the 153 top-tier local authorities in England: county councils, London boroughs, Metropolitan boroughs and unitary authorities.

It does not include lower-tier district councils.

The list is divided into four sections, corresponding to the four types of top-tier authority, with each section arranged alphabetically.

For each authority, the percentage increase in council tax in 2025/26 is given, along with (in brackets) the increase in the previous two years of 2024/25 and 2023/24.

The figures for 2024/25 and 2023/24 are sourced from the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government.

– County councils

Cambridgeshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.98%)
Derbyshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.75%)
Devon 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
East Sussex 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Essex 3.75% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.50%)
Gloucestershire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Hampshire 4.995% (2024/25: 4.998% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Hertfordshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Kent 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.995%)
Lancashire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)
Leicestershire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Lincolnshire 2.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Norfolk 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Nottinghamshire 4.84% (2024/25: 4.84% 2023/24: 4.84%)
Oxfordshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Staffordshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Suffolk 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.00%)
Surrey 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 2.99%)
Warwickshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.996% 2023/24: 3.94%)
West Sussex 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Worcestershire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.94%)

– London

Barking & Dagenham 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Barnet 4.98% (2024/25: 4.98% 2023/24: 3.80%)
Bexley 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Brent 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Bromley 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Camden 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
City of London 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Croydon 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 14.99%)
Ealing 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Enfield 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Greenwich 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Hackney 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Hammersmith & Fulham 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.80%)
Haringey 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Harrow 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Havering 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Hillingdon 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Hounslow 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Islington 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Kensington & Chelsea 4.00% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 2.18%)
Kingston-upon-Thames 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Lambeth 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Lewisham 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Merton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.999% 2023/24: 4.999%)
Newham 8.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Redbridge 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Richmond-upon-Thames 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Southwark 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Sutton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Tower Hamlets 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 2.00%)
Waltham Forest 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Wandsworth 2.00% (2024/25: 2.09% 2023/24: 2.14%)
Westminster 4.99% (2024/25: 4.98% 2023/24: 2.01%)

– Metropolitan boroughs

Barnsley 4.90% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.90%)
Birmingham 7.49% (2024/25: 9.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Bolton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)
Bradford 9.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Bury 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Calderdale 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Coventry 4.90% (2024/25: 4.94% 2023/24: 4.94%)
Doncaster 3.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)
Dudley 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Gateshead 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Kirklees 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Knowsley 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Leeds 4.99% (2024/25: 4.98% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Liverpool 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Manchester 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Newcastle-upon-Tyne 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)
North Tyneside 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Oldham 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)
Rochdale 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Rotherham 3.00% (2024/25: 3.50% 2023/24: 4.00%)
Salford 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Sandwell 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Sefton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Sheffield 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Solihull 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
South Tyneside 4.95% (2024/25: 4.95% 2023/24: 4.95%)
St Helens 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Stockport 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)
Sunderland 4.49% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 2.99%)
Tameside 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Trafford 7.49% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Wakefield 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Walsall 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 2.99%)
Wigan 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Wirral 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Wolverhampton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)

– Unitary authorities
(Note: where figures for 2023/24 are n/a, this is because the authority did not then exist in its current form)

Bath & North East Somerset 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Bedford 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 2.90%)
Blackburn with Darwen 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Blackpool 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Bracknell Forest 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Brighton & Hove 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Bristol 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Buckinghamshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.98% 2023/24: 4.9997%)
Central Bedfordshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 0%)
Cheshire East 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Cheshire West & Chester 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Cornwall 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Cumberland 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: n/a)
Darlington 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Derby 3.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Dorset 4.99% (2024/25: 4.996% 2023/24: 4.00%)
Durham 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
East Riding of Yorkshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.98%)
Halton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Hartlepool 4.99% (2024/25: 2.99% 2023/24: 4.90%)
Herefordshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Hull 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Isle of Wight 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Isles of Scilly 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Leicester 4.99% (2024/25: 4.999% 2023/24: 4.998%)
Luton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Medway 4.994% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Middlesbrough 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)
Milton Keynes 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
North East Lincolnshire 3.98% (2024/25: 4.98% 2023/24: 3.98%)
North Lincolnshire 4.89% (2024/25: 3.73% 2023/24: 1.74%)
North Northamptonshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
North Somerset 4.99% (2024/25: 4.98% 2023/24: 4.99%)
North Yorkshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: n/a)
Northumberland 4.99% (2024/25: 4.59% 2023/24: 4.63%)
Nottingham 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Peterborough 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Plymouth 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Portsmouth 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Reading 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Redcar & Cleveland 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 3.99%)
Rutland 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Shropshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Slough 4.99% (2024/25: 8.50% 2023/24: 9.99%)
Somerset 7.49% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: n/a)
South Gloucestershire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Southampton 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Southend-on-Sea 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Stockton-on-Tees 4.95% (2024/25: 4.95% 2023/24: 4.90%)
Stoke-on-Trent 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Swindon 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Telford & Wrekin 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 2.00%)
Thurrock 4.99% (2024/25: 7.98% 2023/24: 9.99%)
Torbay 4.75% (2024/25: 4.75% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Warrington 4.98% (2024/25: 4.98% 2023/24: 4.98%)
West Berkshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
West Northamptonshire 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Westmorland & Furness 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: n/a)
Wiltshire 4.50% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
Windsor & Maidenhead 8.99% (2024/25: 4.96% 2023/24: 4.96%)
Wokingham 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)
York 4.99% (2024/25: 4.99% 2023/24: 4.99%)