Your council tax, band by band

What council tax is in Hastings in 2026/27, band by band, and who gets it. A Band D home pays £2,677.51 a year, 4.86% more than in 2025/26.

A year's council tax for 2026/27, by band, before any discount or support, and each body's share.

Band (1991 value)	Total a year	East Sussex County Council	Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner	East Sussex Fire Authority	Hastings Borough Council
Band A up to £40,000	£1,785.01	£1,306.81	£188.61	£78.33	£211.26
Band B £40,001 to £52,000	£2,082.51	£1,524.62	£220.04	£91.38	£246.47
Band C £52,001 to £68,000	£2,380.01	£1,742.42	£251.48	£104.44	£281.68
Band D £68,001 to £88,000	£2,677.51	£1,960.22	£282.91	£117.49	£316.89
Band E £88,001 to £120,000	£3,272.51	£2,395.82	£345.78	£143.60	£387.31
Band F £120,001 to £160,000	£3,867.51	£2,831.43	£408.65	£169.71	£457.73
Band G £160,001 to £320,000	£4,462.52	£3,267.03	£471.52	£195.82	£528.15
Band H more than £320,000	£5,355.02	£3,920.44	£565.82	£234.98	£633.78

Your band is on your bill, or on gov.uk. Bands are based on what a home would have sold for in April 1991. A single adult living alone gets 25% off, and people on low incomes may get council tax support; neither is shown here.

Who gets it, and how much each went up

Band D, 2026/27. Hastings Borough Council collects the whole bill and passes the rest on to the others.

East Sussex County Councilup 4.99% on 2025/26, £93.17 more at Band D£1,960.2273% of the total
Sussex Police and Crime Commissionerup 5.60% on 2025/26, £15.00 more at Band D£282.9111% of the total
East Sussex Fire Authorityup 6.13% on 2025/26, £6.79 more at Band D£117.494% of the total
Hastings Borough Councilup 2.99% on 2025/26, £9.20 more at Band D£316.8912% of the total

Last year and this, band by band

Band	2025/26	2026/27	More a year	More a week
Band A	£1,702.23	£1,785.01	£82.78	£1.59
Band B	£1,985.94	£2,082.51	£96.57	£1.86
Band C	£2,269.64	£2,380.01	£110.37	£2.12
Band D	£2,553.35	£2,677.51	£124.16	£2.39
Band E	£3,120.76	£3,272.51	£151.75	£2.92
Band F	£3,688.17	£3,867.51	£179.34	£3.45
Band G	£4,255.58	£4,462.52	£206.94	£3.98
Band H	£5,106.70	£5,355.02	£248.32	£4.78

Last year's figures are the same table's 2025/26 column. "A week" is the year's rise divided by 52.

Why the county's own figure differs by a few pence

East Sussex County Council's budget papers give its Band D for 2026/27 as £1,960.29 (“Indicative Band D 2026/27* 1,960.29”, Report of the Cabinet). The borough's table, which sets the bills in Hastings, gives £1,960.22. The borough's table divides the county's precept on Hastings, £54,999,735, by the town's taxbase of 28,058 Band D homes, which gives £1,960.22. The bills in Hastings follow the borough's table.

Where these figures come from

Band D for each body is read from the council tax table in the borough council's budget papers (Full Council, Wed 11 Feb 2026). The other bands are worked out from Band D by the ratios fixed in law (Band A is six-ninths of Band D, Band H eighteen-ninths), the same way the council's own table of bands is built. We only show the table when the four charges add up to the total the council states, to the penny.

This paper on Open Hastings · What the borough's part went up by, in the council's words

The council's rows, as published

“50,920,364 1,867.05 County Council Precept 54,999,735 1,960.22 4.99%”
“7,306,763 267.91 Police and Crime Commissioner Precept 7,937,889 282.91 5.60%”
“3,019,251 110.70 Fire Authority Precept 3,296,534 117.49 6.13%”
“8,391,691 307.69 Borough Council Tax 8,891,300 316.89 2.99%”
“69,638,069 2,553.35 Total Council Tax 75,125,458 2,677.51 4.86%”

To see what the borough council spends, see council spending.