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 pay | UK percentile |
|---|
Areas with no published figure
| Area | Why there is no figure |
|---|---|
| Aberdeen City | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Aberdeenshire | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Angus | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Argyll and Bute | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| City of Edinburgh | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Clackmannanshire | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Dumfries and Galloway | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Dundee City | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| East Ayrshire | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| East Dunbartonshire | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| East Lothian | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| East Renfrewshire | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Falkirk | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Fife | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Glasgow City | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Highland | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Inverclyde | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Midlothian | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Moray | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Na h-Eileanan Siar | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| North Ayrshire | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| North Lanarkshire | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Orkney Islands | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Perth and Kinross | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Renfrewshire | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Scottish Borders | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Shetland Islands | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| South Ayrshire | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| South Lanarkshire | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| Stirling | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| West Dunbartonshire | No Band D council tax published for this area (Year ending March 2027). |
| West Lothian | No 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.