Cheapest council tax: UK boroughs ranked

#	Local authority	How it ranks vs England
1	Wandsworth	cheaper than 99% of England
2	Westminster	cheaper than 99% of England
3	City of London	cheaper than 98% of England
4	Hammersmith and Fulham	cheaper than 98% of England
5	Kensington and Chelsea	cheaper than 97% of England
6	Tower Hamlets	cheaper than 97% of England
7	Newham	cheaper than 96% of England
8	Southwark	cheaper than 95% of England
9	Windsor and Maidenhead	cheaper than 95% of England
10	Hillingdon	cheaper than 94% of England
11	Hackney	cheaper than 93% of England
12	Lambeth	cheaper than 93% of England
13	Greenwich	cheaper than 92% of England
14	Barnet	cheaper than 91% of England
15	Islington	cheaper than 91% of England
16	Ealing	cheaper than 90% of England
17	Bromley	cheaper than 89% of England
18	Dudley	cheaper than 88% of England
19	Merton	cheaper than 87% of England
20	Wigan	cheaper than 87% of England
21	Doncaster	cheaper than 86% of England
22	Stoke-on-Trent	cheaper than 85% of England
23	Hounslow	cheaper than 84% of England
24	Solihull	cheaper than 83% of England
25	Sunderland	cheaper than 83% of England
26	Barking and Dagenham	cheaper than 82% of England
27	Camden	cheaper than 82% of England
28	Brent	cheaper than 81% of England
29	Lewisham	cheaper than 80% of England
30	Sandwell	cheaper than 79% of England
31	Thurrock	cheaper than 79% of England
32	Bracknell Forest	cheaper than 78% of England
33	Brentwood	cheaper than 78% of England
34	Southend-on-Sea	cheaper than 78% of England
35	Enfield	cheaper than 77% of England
36	Epping Forest	cheaper than 76% of England
37	Tendring	cheaper than 76% of England
38	Braintree	cheaper than 75% of England
39	Colchester	cheaper than 75% of England
40	Leeds	cheaper than 74% of England
41	York	cheaper than 72% of England
42	Trafford	cheaper than 71% of England
43	Peterborough	cheaper than 70% of England
44	Portsmouth	cheaper than 70% of England
45	Redbridge	cheaper than 69% of England
46	Wakefield	cheaper than 69% of England
47	Harlow	cheaper than 68% of England
48	Chelmsford	cheaper than 67% of England
49	Derby	cheaper than 67% of England
50	Broxbourne	cheaper than 66% of England
51	Manchester	cheaper than 66% of England
52	Castle Point	cheaper than 64% of England
53	Haringey	cheaper than 64% of England
54	Lincoln	cheaper than 64% of England
55	Barnsley	cheaper than 63% of England
56	Basildon	cheaper than 62% of England
57	Maldon	cheaper than 62% of England
58	Medway	cheaper than 62% of England
59	South Derbyshire	cheaper than 61% of England
60	Uttlesford	cheaper than 61% of England
61	Bradford	cheaper than 60% of England
62	Erewash	cheaper than 60% of England
63	Gloucester	cheaper than 60% of England
64	Birmingham	cheaper than 58% of England
65	Bexley	cheaper than 55% of England
66	Halton	cheaper than 55% of England
67	Rochford	cheaper than 55% of England
68	Cheltenham	cheaper than 54% of England
69	Milton Keynes	cheaper than 54% of England
70	Dartford	cheaper than 53% of England
71	Sutton	cheaper than 53% of England
72	Southampton	cheaper than 52% of England
73	Bath and North East Somerset	cheaper than 51% of England
74	Rotherham	cheaper than 51% of England
75	Stevenage	cheaper than 50% of England
76	Waltham Forest	cheaper than 50% of England
77	Bolton	cheaper than 49% of England
78	St. Helens	cheaper than 48% of England
79	Swale	cheaper than 48% of England
80	Dacorum	cheaper than 47% of England
81	Gravesham	cheaper than 47% of England
82	Hertsmere	cheaper than 47% of England
83	Ashford	cheaper than 46% of England
84	Slough	cheaper than 46% of England
85	Canterbury	cheaper than 45% of England
86	St Albans	cheaper than 45% of England
87	Calderdale	cheaper than 44% of England
88	Three Rivers	cheaper than 44% of England
89	Havering	cheaper than 43% of England
90	South Tyneside	cheaper than 43% of England
91	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	cheaper than 42% of England
92	Kirklees	cheaper than 41% of England
93	Plymouth	cheaper than 40% of England
94	Tunbridge Wells	cheaper than 39% of England
95	Watford	cheaper than 39% of England
96	North Hertfordshire	cheaper than 38% of England
97	Tameside	cheaper than 38% of England
98	East Hertfordshire	cheaper than 37% of England
99	Welwyn Hatfield	cheaper than 37% of England
100	Cheshire East	cheaper than 36% of England
101	Dover	cheaper than 35% of England
102	Cambridge	cheaper than 34% of England
103	North Tyneside	cheaper than 34% of England
104	Ipswich	cheaper than 33% of England
105	Tonbridge and Malling	cheaper than 33% of England
106	Knowsley	cheaper than 32% of England
107	Richmond upon Thames	cheaper than 32% of England
108	Exeter	cheaper than 31% of England
109	Runnymede	cheaper than 31% of England
110	Thanet	cheaper than 31% of England
111	Wirral	cheaper than 30% of England
112	Wokingham	cheaper than 30% of England
113	Maidstone	cheaper than 29% of England
114	Norwich	cheaper than 28% of England
115	West Berkshire	cheaper than 28% of England
116	Sheffield	cheaper than 27% of England
117	Harrow	cheaper than 26% of England
118	Coventry	cheaper than 25% of England
119	Cheshire West and Chester	cheaper than 24% of England
120	Mole Valley	cheaper than 23% of England
121	Sevenoaks	cheaper than 23% of England
122	Leicester	cheaper than 22% of England
123	Spelthorne	cheaper than 22% of England
124	Epsom and Ewell	cheaper than 21% of England
125	Folkestone and Hythe	cheaper than 21% of England
126	Wolverhampton	cheaper than 21% of England
127	Newcastle upon Tyne	cheaper than 20% of England
128	Bury	cheaper than 19% of England
129	Guildford	cheaper than 19% of England
130	Huntingdonshire	cheaper than 18% of England
131	Elmbridge	cheaper than 17% of England
132	Reigate and Banstead	cheaper than 17% of England
133	Brighton and Hove	cheaper than 16% of England
134	Preston	cheaper than 16% of England
135	Sefton	cheaper than 15% of England
136	Surrey Heath	cheaper than 15% of England
137	Cornwall	cheaper than 14% of England
138	Salford	cheaper than 12% of England
139	Tandridge	cheaper than 11% of England
140	Woking	cheaper than 11% of England
141	Croydon	cheaper than 10% of England
142	Rochdale	cheaper than 10% of England
143	Oldham	cheaper than 9% of England
144	Kingston upon Thames	cheaper than 8% of England
145	Waverley	cheaper than 8% of England
146	Broxtowe	cheaper than 7% of England
147	Reading	cheaper than 7% of England
148	Stockport	cheaper than 6% of England
149	Walsall	cheaper than 6% of England
150	Liverpool	cheaper than 5% of England
151	Rushcliffe	cheaper than 5% of England
152	Bristol, City of	cheaper than 3% of England
153	Oxford	cheaper than 3% of England
154	Gateshead	cheaper than 2% of England
155	Nottingham	cheaper than 1% of England
156	Rutland	cheaper than 1% of England

Ranked from the borough-wide average percentile in each official dataset (MHCLG / VOA, Ofcom, DEFRA, Ordnance Survey), measured against every covered UK postcode. Percentiles describe a position against England, not a value judgement — read each alongside the borough's full report. No estimates dressed as fact, no opaque scoring.

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