# Council tax in Denbighshire url: https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/council-tax/wales/denbighshire/ updated: 29 September 2026 licence: Our words, analysis, charts and derived calculations: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), credit [Tekstak Ltd](https://tek-stak.co.uk). Figures: each source's own licence, listed under Sources. publisher: [Tekstak Ltd](https://tek-stak.co.uk) # Council tax in Denbighshire Last updated 29 September 2026. Figures refresh every night. [How each figure is worked out](/methodology/). Council tax in **Denbighshire** for 2026-27 is **£2,339 a year for a Band D home**, £1,559 for Band A and £5,458 for the top band. That is £13 above the Wales average of £2,326. It ranks 12 of 22 billing areas in Wales. Figures are the council's own set rates. Wales publishes Band D only, so the other bands here are worked out from the statutory ratios. Figures for the 2026–27 financial year. Source: [Welsh Government](https://www.gov.wales/council-tax-levels). ## Key figures - £2,339Band D a year, 2026-27 As of 6 April 2026 - £1,559Band A, the lowest As of 6 April 2026 - +£13Band D against the Wales average of £2,326 Above average As of 6 April 2026 - 12 of 22Rank in Wales, highest first As of 6 April 2026 Source: [Welsh Government](https://www.gov.wales/council-tax-levels). ## What is the bill for each band? £2,339 Band D, Denbighshire, 2026-27 | Band | A year | A month | | --- | --- | --- | | Band ADetails | £1,559.35 | £129.95 | | A month£129.95 | | | | Band BDetails | £1,819.25 | £151.60 | | A month£151.60 | | | | Band CDetails | £2,079.14 | £173.26 | | A month£173.26 | | | | Band DDetails | £2,339.03 | £194.92 | | A month£194.92 | | | | Band EDetails | £2,858.81 | £238.23 | | A month£238.23 | | | | Band FDetails | £3,378.60 | £281.55 | | A month£281.55 | | | | Band GDetails | £3,898.38 | £324.87 | | A month£324.87 | | | | Band HDetails | £4,678.06 | £389.84 | | A month£389.84 | | | | Band IDetails | £5,457.74 | £454.81 | | A month£454.81 | | | ### What does this mean for you? Choose your band to see your bill in Denbighshire for 2026-27. Your band is on your bill, or on the Valuation Office Agency’s search. Your band Band ABand BBand CBand DBand EBand FBand GBand HBand I Band D in Denbighshire: **£2,339 a year**, or £233.90 a month over the usual ten instalments. Living alone as the only adult, it would be £1,754 after the 25% discount. The council’s set rates, before any council tax reduction or other discount. You can ask to pay over twelve months instead of ten. Figures for the 2026–27 financial year. Source: [Welsh Government](https://www.gov.wales/council-tax-levels). Wales publishes Band D only. The other bands are derived using the statutory ratios, which are fixed in law and the same for every Welsh authority, so these are exact rather than estimated. ## Who gets the money? 1872 398 68 County or county borough council 80%Police and crime commissioner 17%Community council 3% | Who receives it | Band D | Share | | --- | --- | --- | | County or county borough councilDetails | £1,872 | 80% | | Share80% | | | | Police and crime commissionerDetails | £398 | 17% | | Share17% | | | | Community councilDetails | £68 | 3% | | Share3% | | | Each body sets its own precept and the council simply collects them together. The council that sends the bill keeps only its own share. [Where your council tax goes: from your bill to each service](/council-tax/wales/denbighshire/where-it-goes/) ## How does it compare? Band D here is **£13 above** the Wales average, 12 of 22 councils from the highest. It rose 6% on last year. **Denbighshire among the Wales councils nearest it, Band D 2026-27** - 8. Monmouthshire £2,417 - 9. Flintshire £2,376 - 10. Powys £2,352 - 11. Carmarthenshire £2,351 - ◆12. Denbighshire £2,339 - 13. Wrexham £2,309 - 14. Rhondda Cynon Taf £2,289 - 15. Isle of Anglesey £2,261 - 16. Swansea £2,238 Wales average: £2,326 ◆ Denbighshire Ranked highest first. [Every council](/councils/) is in the full table. **Show as a table** | Name | Band D | | --- | --- | | 8. Monmouthshire | £2,417 | | 9. Flintshire | £2,376 | | 10. Powys | £2,352 | | 11. Carmarthenshire | £2,351 | | 12. Denbighshire (Denbighshire) | £2,339 | | 13. Wrexham | £2,309 | | 14. Rhondda Cynon Taf | £2,289 | | 15. Isle of Anglesey | £2,261 | | 16. Swansea | £2,238 | Figures for the 2026–27 financial year. Source: [Welsh Government](https://www.gov.wales/council-tax-levels). ## How does Denbighshire compare? The report card Official figures on complaints, finances, audit, pay and services for Denbighshire, each from the body that published it and set against the figure for Wales. See every council on the [council map](/councils/map/?council=W06000004). - Council tax rise this year5.5%Higher than the Wales figure of 5.2% - Council tax per head£1,043Higher than the Wales figure of £963 - Ombudsman interventions6% (6 of 98 closed)Lower than the Wales figure of 13% - Recycling rate68.6%Higher than the Wales figure of 68.4% Each figure is set against the figure for Wales as a whole. They are plain comparisons, one measure at a time: there is no overall score and no ranking of councils. Higher is not always better or worse; what each measure does and does not show is on the [methodology page](/methodology/#council-report-cards). ### What do complaints to the ombudsman show? | Measure | Denbighshire | For comparison | | --- | --- | --- | | Complaints closedDetails | 98 | — | | For comparison— | | | | Closed with the Ombudsman interveningDetails | 6 (6%) | 13% across Welsh councils | | For comparison13% across Welsh councils | | | The Ombudsman publishes one row per closed case; the counts here are this site’s own, from those rows, for the 2024-25 financial year. The Ombudsman’s annual letter to each council may count slightly differently. Source: [Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, Open data: complaints closed](https://www.ombudsman.wales/open-data-2/), 2024-25. ### How healthy are its finances? | Measure | Denbighshire | For comparison | | --- | --- | --- | | Outstanding borrowing at 30 June 2026Details | £332.6m | — | | For comparison— | | | The Welsh Government publishes council reserves as a PDF report only, so no figure is shown here. Much of any council’s reserves is set aside for particular purposes. Borrowing is total outstanding loans of every kind; councils borrow mainly to pay for buildings, roads and housing, and the figure does not show what the borrowing was for. Source: [Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Local authority borrowing and investment live table](https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/live-tables-on-local-government-finance), 30 June 2026. ### What have the auditors said? | Report | Title | Published | | --- | --- | --- | | Latest local report (Audit Wales) | [Denbighshire County Council – Budgeting for demand? Using data to plan adult residential care](https://www.audit.wales/publication/denbighshire-county-council-budgeting-demand-using-data-plan-adult-residential-care) | 1 September 2026 | | Annual Audit Summary (Audit Wales) | None found in Audit Wales’s listing when last checked | — | Audit Wales publishes an Annual Audit Summary for each council, which states its opinion on the accounts, and reports on particular services. Follow each link for the findings in full. Source: [Audit Wales, Local reports and Annual Audit Summaries](https://www.audit.wales/publications), latest report. Checked 22 September 2026. ### What are senior staff and councillors paid? Senior pay and councillor allowances for Denbighshire have not yet been read from its statement of accounts. There is no central dataset of either; they are being added council by council, each with a link to the page of the accounts it comes from. ### How are its services rated? | Measure | Denbighshire | For comparison | | --- | --- | --- | | Municipal waste reused, recycled or composted (the statutory target measure), 2024-25Details | 68.6% | 68.4% for Wales | | For comparison68.4% for Wales | | | Inspections happen at different times, so a rating can be several years old; the date is shown with each. Recycling rates are measured differently in England, Scotland and Wales, so compare within a nation. Source: [Welsh Government, Local authority municipal waste management](https://stats.gov.wales/en-GB/f9314a75-6c2b-4baf-b8ef-383a2bc06125), 2024-25. ### What has happened recently? Decisions and publications by official bodies about Denbighshire, newest first. Each links to the body that made or published it. News reports are not included. - 1 September 2026 Audit [Audit Wales report: Budgeting for demand? Using data to plan adult residential care](https://www.audit.wales/publication/denbighshire-county-council-budgeting-demand-using-data-plan-adult-residential-care) Audit Wales - 1 April 2026 Council tax [Council tax for 2026-27: Band D £2,339, up 5.5% on the year before](https://www.gov.wales/council-tax-levels) Welsh Government - 5 May 2022 Election [Local election: 47 seats won](https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/elections/local.denbighshire.2022-05-05/) Labour Party 19, Independent 12, Plaid Cymru - The Party of Wales 8, Conservative and Unionist Party 5, Green Party 2, Liberal Democrats 1 Democracy Club ### Does the council think something here is wrong? If you represent Denbighshire and think a figure here is wrong, out of date or unfairly presented, email [hello@whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk](mailto:hello@whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk?subject=Right%20of%20reply%3A%20Denbighshire%20report%20card) with this page’s address and the source you would point to. Every correction is logged, with its date, on the [corrections page](/corrections/). ## How much of the council's spending does this cover? Council tax funds **26%** of this authority's budget. The rest comes from central government grant, business rates and fees. That is why a grant cut can raise your bill even when the council has not changed what it does, and why cutting council tax would not shrink services by the same proportion. ## Where can I find out more? [What council tax is and why it works this way](/council-tax/), including why the bands are still based on 1991 property values in England and Scotland, and [how every area compares](/councils/), everything else on [Denbighshire: parking, roads, your MP and local services](/your-area/denbighshire/), and [Denbighshire on the council map](/councils/map/?council=W06000004). ## Common questions How much is council tax in Denbighshire? Band D is £2,339 a year for 2026-27. Band A is £1,559 and the top band £5,458.Is council tax in Denbighshire higher than average? Yes. Band D here is £13 above the Wales average of £2,326. ## Sources for this page | Source | Publisher | Figures as of | Updated | Licence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [Council Tax levels](https://www.gov.wales/council-tax-levels) | Welsh Government | the 2026–27 financial year | annual | [Open Government Licence v3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/) | Each source's figures are used under the licence shown. Our own words, analysis, charts and derived calculations are ours, under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ## Related pages - [Next in this section: Where your council tax goes in Denbighshire](https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/council-tax/wales/denbighshire/where-it-goes/) - [Back to Denbighshire: your area](https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/your-area/denbighshire/) - [How much is council tax and what does it pay for?](https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/council-tax/) - [Who is my MP, and what does their office cost?](https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/mps/) - [Where does my tax money actually go?](https://whereyourmoneygoes.co.uk/for-every-100-pounds-of-tax/) ## More from this publisher - [UK tax calculators](https://howlongisit.co.uk) Published by [Tekstak Ltd](https://tek-stak.co.uk). Our words, analysis, charts and derived calculations: CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), credit [Tekstak Ltd](https://tek-stak.co.uk). 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