Enfield Council Tax Bands 2026/27: £2,267.67 at Band D

Enfield Council set its 2026/27 council tax on 26 February 2026. A band D household pays £2,267.67 for the year. The full A to H table is below, and so is the part the council splits across three pages: how much of that is Enfield’s and how much is the Mayor of London’s.

Every band, and who gets the money

Source: the council’s guide to your council tax and its public notice for 2026/27. The figures assume two adults in the property. There is no parish or town council precept anywhere in Enfield, so these amounts apply borough-wide.

What it rose by

Bills went up 4.79% across every band. In cash, that is £69.10 more at band A and £207.30 more at band H.

The 4.79% is a blend of three separate decisions, which the council sets out per month over ten instalments for a band D home:

• core council tax, up 2.99%: £5.01 a month
• the adult social care precept, up 2.00%: £3.35 a month
• the Greater London Authority, up 4.10%: £2.01 a month

Enfield’s own share therefore rose 4.99%, the maximum available without a referendum. The council says the Government’s Fair Funding Settlement will raise its funding by 75% over three years, an extra £131m, and that it still raised council tax because of adult social care, children’s services, SEND and temporary housing costs.

Where the Mayor’s £510.51 goes

The GLA share of a band D bill is not one thing. It is four, and only two of them moved this year.

Policing and fire took the whole of the increase. The Mayor’s stated reason for the police element is a crackdown on phone theft.

How Enfield compares

Enfield’s band D of £2,267.67 is the 11th highest of the 33 London billing authorities for 2026/27, on the Government’s own figures in Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027.

That is £199.67 above the London average of £2,068, and £124.33 below the England average of £2,392.

Enfield borders seven other districts, and it is cheaper than six of them.

Barnet is the exception, and the gap is real money: £135.07 a year less at band D for a home on the other side of the boundary. That boundary runs through Cockfosters, Oakwood and the N14 and N11 postcodes, so it is not an abstract point for people in the west of the borough. Haringey, on the southern boundary through N13 and N18, charges £46.11 more.

These are area figures, so each one already includes that district’s police, fire and county or GLA precepts. They are comparable with each other.

Check your band, and challenge it

Bands were set on what a property was worth on 1 April 1991, not what it is worth now. The council puts Enfield’s tax base for 2026/27 at 105,212 band D equivalent homes.

Look up your band free on GOV.UK, which reads from the Valuation Office Agency’s list. If you think it is wrong, the VOA handles the challenge, not the council, through GOV.UK’s appeal route.

Two things to know before you do. A challenge can move a band up as well as down. And you normally have to keep paying the current bill while it is being decided.

Discounts, and the ones people miss

From the council’s discounts page:

• 25% off if you are the only adult in the property, or if everyone else there is disregarded
• 50% off if every resident is disregarded, if you need a second home for work, or if you live in an annexe and are related to the owner of the main property
• a full band reduction if you have adapted the home for a disabled adult or child, so a band D property is charged at band C

People are disregarded, meaning they are not counted at all, if they are students or student nurses, apprentices, school or college leavers, under 18 and covered by Child Benefit, severely mentally impaired, in hospital or a care home, in prison, or living in and caring for someone else.

Empty and second properties go the other way in Enfield:

• a second home is charged a 100% premium, so double the normal bill
• empty and unfurnished for over a year: double
• over five years: three times
• over ten years: four times

The government’s exception classes still apply, including 12 months’ relief for a property genuinely being marketed for sale or let, and 12 months from a grant of probate.

If you cannot pay

Council Tax Support is Enfield’s means-tested scheme. You may qualify if you are liable for council tax and are on benefits, on a low income, self-employed, receiving Pension Credit, or hold savings below £16,000 excluding your home.

Two features of Enfield’s scheme matter more than the headline:

• support is capped at band C liability, whatever band you actually live in
• working-age claimants must pay at least 50% of the bill themselves, unless they are in a protected group

For 2026/27 the working-age scheme is unchanged from 2025/26. Pension-age awards follow the government’s prescribed rules and were uprated. If you already receive support you do not need to reapply, and a duplicate application slows down everybody else’s.

There is a separate hardship scheme for people who already get Council Tax Support and are still struggling.

Billing queries go to revs@enfield.gov.uk, with your council tax number in angled brackets in the subject line.

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