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Coventry council tax 2026/27
A metropolitan city with three small parishes, a large student population and Warwickshire on its doorstep.
Coventry, Band B, 2026/27
£1,957a year
First payment £193.45, then 9 of £196.00
| Band B charge | £1,957.45 |
| Bill for the year | £1,957.45 |
Band B at 7/9 of Band D.
Where the council tax goes
How Coventry compares
Band D here is £2,516.72, number 83 of 296 in England (1 = dearest). The same band in Wandsworth, the cheapest, costs £800 on the same terms.
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A Band D home in Coventry pays £2,516.72 of council tax in 2026/27, against £2,413.68 a year earlier, a rise of £103 or 4.3 %. That total is made of three charges: £2,186.40 for Coventry City Council itself, £244.50 for the West Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner and £85.19 for West Midlands Fire Service, plus a small parish average. Band B, the setting of the calculator, costs £1,957.45 for two or more adults and £1,468.09 for a person living alone after the 25 % discount. Coventry is 6 of the 30 West Midlands billing authorities when they are ranked from the dearest Band D, and it sits £125 above the average for England. Each band is a fixed fraction of Band D, from six ninths for Band A to eighteen ninths for Band H.
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Coventry bands for one adult or a full household
| Band | Share of D | Two adults | Living alone | Each of 10 payments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Band A | 6/9 | £1,677.81 | £1,258.36 | £167.78 |
| Band B | 7/9 | £1,957.45 | £1,468.09 | £195.75 |
| Band C | 8/9 | £2,237.08 | £1,677.81 | £223.71 |
| Band D | 9/9 | £2,516.72 | £1,887.54 | £251.67 |
| Band E | 11/9 | £3,075.99 | £2,306.99 | £307.60 |
| Band F | 13/9 | £3,635.26 | £2,726.44 | £363.53 |
| Band G | 15/9 | £4,194.53 | £3,145.90 | £419.45 |
| Band H | 18/9 | £5,033.44 | £3,775.08 | £503.34 |
The table runs from the cheapest band to the dearest for a main home. The column for a person living alone already includes the single person discount, and the last column divides the two adult charge by ten, the number of instalments Coventry uses unless you ask for twelve. In Band A the first instalment is £165.81 and the other nine are £168.00 each.
Allesley, Finham and Keresley
Coventry is mostly unparished, but 3 areas on its outskirts have their own parish councils, which set a precept on top of the city charge. For 2026/27 the council publishes an extra £40.25 at Band D in Allesley, £13.54 in Finham and £22.08 in Keresley. The government table spreads those sums across the whole city, which gives the average of £0.63 built into the figures here. If your bill names one of the three parishes, your real charge is slightly above the table; if not, slightly below.
Coventry next to Warwickshire and Solihull
Warwickshire districts and Solihull border the city, and the structure of their bills is different. A Coventry bill pays one authority for almost every local service. In Warwick, Rugby or Nuneaton and Bedworth, the district collects for itself, for Warwickshire County Council and for the Warwickshire police precept, and most villages add a parish precept. The column for the county share below shows how much of each Band D bill goes to the county.
| Council | Band B | Band D | County share at D | Change on 2025/26 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coventry | £1,957.45 | £2,516.72 | none | 4.3 % |
| Warwick | £1,914.54 | £2,461.55 | £1,903.86 | 4.5 % |
| Rugby | £1,931.26 | £2,483.05 | £1,903.86 | 4.4 % |
| Nuneaton and Bedworth | £1,946.12 | £2,502.16 | £1,903.86 | 4.3 % |
| North Warwickshire | £1,969.41 | £2,532.10 | £1,903.86 | 4.1 % |
| Solihull | £1,708.98 | £2,197.26 | none | 5.2 % |
| Birmingham | £1,837.81 | £2,362.90 | none | 5.2 % |
The average Band D across the West Midlands is £2,399.67, so Coventry pays £117 more than the regional average. The West Midlands page lists every council in the region from the dearest.
Students renting in Coventry
Coventry University and other institutions bring a large number of students who rent shared houses across the city. A house where every adult is a full-time student is exempt; the city's test is study of at least 21 hours a week for 24 weeks of the year, in line with the national rules for students. If one adult in the house is not a student, that person receives the bill, reduced by the discount for a household where they are the only adult counted. The student guide covers the certificates, the summer gap and halls.
Empty homes and second homes in Coventry
Coventry's published table of charges includes columns for the full charge with a premium of 100 %, 200 % and 300 %, the three tiers that English law allows for long-term empty homes. The table does not say which tier applies to which home, so check the council's decision before relying on a figure, then type the rate into the calculator. The GOV.UK page on second homes and empty properties sets out the national rules, and the empty property guide explains the exceptions.
Bills arrive in March. Payment options include Direct Debit on a choice of dates, and a request for twelve instalments spreads the cost to the end of March.