MHCLG · Band D council tax Year ending March 2027, median full-time annual pay 2025 · Local authority
Where is council tax highest compared with local pay?
Band D council tax set for the year in each billing authority, divided by the median annual pay of full-time employees living there. Band D is the standard comparison band, not the bill most households receive. Both figures are published; the division is a Civometry calculation.
Malvern Hills
6.92%Band D council tax as a percentage of median full-time pay
In Malvern Hills, Band D council tax is 6.92% of median full-time annual pay (Band D council tax Year ending March 2027, median full-time annual pay 2025) — joint 70th highest of 294 areas with a published figure.
- Area
- Malvern Hills (E07000235)
- Band D council tax as a percentage of median full-time pay
- 6.92%
- Rank
- joint 70th highest of 294 areas with a published figure; 56 more areas have no published figure
- Percentile
- 76% of areas with a figure are below it
- Period
- Band D council tax Year ending March 2027, median full-time annual pay 2025
- Release
- Band D council tax: 2026 to 2027; median full-time annual pay: 2025 provisional
- Published by
- MHCLG and ONS
- Status
- Civometry calculation on published figures
How this number was worked out
Band D council tax £2,451 ÷ median full-time annual pay £35,429 × 100 = 6.92%
Band D council tax ÷ median full-time annual pay × 100
Both figures are published for this area. Nothing is weighted, smoothed or modelled, so the sum above can be checked by hand.
In Malvern Hills, Band D council tax is 6.92% of median full-time annual pay (Band D council tax Year ending March 2027, median full-time annual pay 2025) — joint 70th highest of 294 areas with a published figure. Civometry calculation using MHCLG and ONS figures. Calculation: Band D council tax £2,451 ÷ median full-time annual pay £35,429 × 100 = 6.92%.
Highest areas
| # | Area | % of pay |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nottingham · profile | 8.95% |
| 2 | Pendle · profile | 8.71% |
| 3 | Isle of Wight · profile | 8.42% |
| 4 | North Devon · profile | 8.08% |
| 5 | Hartlepool · profile | 8.03% |
| 6 | Ashfield · profile | 8.01% |
| 7 | Mansfield · profile | 8.00% |
| 8 | Gateshead · profile | 7.94% |
| 9 | Blackpool · profile | 7.89% |
| 10 | County Durham · profile | 7.84% |
Lowest areas
| # | Area | % of pay |
|---|---|---|
| 294 | Wandsworth · profile | 1.88% |
| 293 | Westminster · profile | 1.99% |
| 292 | Kensington and Chelsea · profile | 3.17% |
| 291 | Hammersmith and Fulham · profile | 3.22% |
| 290 | Tower Hamlets · profile | 3.53% |
| 289 | Southwark · profile | 4.04% |
| 288 | Windsor and Maidenhead · profile | 4.12% |
| 287 | Camden · profile | 4.15% |
| 286 | Islington · profile | 4.16% |
| 285 | Hackney · profile | 4.16% |
All 294 areas, ranked
Ranked by band d council tax as a percentage of median full-time pay, highest first; ties in alphabetical order. Areas without a value are not ranked.
What this map shows
294 of 350 local authority areas have a current value for band d council tax as a share of pay (band d council tax as a percentage of median full-time pay), Band D council tax Year ending March 2027, median full-time annual pay 2025. Classes are quantiles of the areas with data, computed on the server, so the same link always gives the same legend.
Band D is the standard comparison band. Households in other bands pay a fixed proportion of it, and discounts and support are not included.
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- Data
- Council tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027 (MHCLG) (MHCLG).
- Denominator
- median full-time annual pay for the same area, as published ASHE Table 8.7a: annual gross pay by place of residence (ONS).
- Boundaries
- ONS Open Geography Portal generalised boundaries, Open Government Licence v3.0 (2025-05 BGC v2 LAD_MAY_2025_UK_BGC_V2).
- Basemap
- Ordnance Survey Maps API (Light), used under the OS Data Hub terms.
- Formula
- Band D council tax ÷ median full-time annual pay × 100, both as published
- Stale areas
- Both sides use the newest period each source publishes for the area. An area missing either side is no data, with the missing side named. Nothing is carried forward and no year is interpolated.
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