Cost of living · MHCLG · Band D council tax Year ending March 2027, median full-time annual pay 2025

Band D council tax as a share of pay by local authority, ranked

Every area with a published figure, in order of band d council tax as a percentage of median full-time pay, lowest first, because this layer states that lower is better. Equal figures share a rank and are printed as ties; the order within a tie is alphabetical and means nothing. 32 areas have no published figure and are listed at the end with the reason, never counted as zero.

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#Area% of payUK percentile

Areas with no published figure

AreaWhy there is no figure
Aberdeen CityNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
AberdeenshireNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
AngusNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
Argyll and ButeNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
City of EdinburghNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
ClackmannanshireNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
Dumfries and GallowayNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
Dundee CityNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
East AyrshireNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
East DunbartonshireNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
East LothianNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
East RenfrewshireNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
FalkirkNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
FifeNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
Glasgow CityNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
HighlandNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
InverclydeNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
MidlothianNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
MorayNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
Na h-Eileanan SiarNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
North AyrshireNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
North LanarkshireNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
Orkney IslandsNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
Perth and KinrossNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
RenfrewshireNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
Scottish BordersNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
Shetland IslandsNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
South AyrshireNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
South LanarkshireNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
StirlingNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
West DunbartonshireNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).
West LothianNo Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027).

How this ranking is made

Band D council tax as a percentage of median full-time pay: Band D council tax ÷ median full-time annual pay × 100, both as published.. Band D council tax as a share of median full-time annual pay, by local authority.

Source: MHCLG: Council tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 · Band D council tax: 2026 to 2027; median full-time annual pay: 2025 provisional. Boundaries: 2025-05 BGC v2 LAD_MAY_2025_UK_BGC_V2. Percentiles are calculated across the whole UK, so they do not change when the table is filtered to one nation. A ranking compares areas of very different sizes and populations; the figure is the publisher’s own, and its rank is Civometry’s ordering of those published figures.