Band C · all 32 Scottish councils
How much is Band C council tax?
Band C costs between £1,805 and £2,061 a year in Scotland depending on your council, water and waste water included.
What this means
A Band C home pays about £163.87 a month in a typical Scottish council area.
Band C is 320/360of your council's Band D rate. That fraction is fixed by law and identical in every council.
Scotland only. Bands and rates work differently in England and Wales.
Every council
Band C in all 32 Scottish councils
A year, water included
1Midlothian£2,0612Aberdeen City£2,0343Argyll and Bute£2,0254Stirling£2,0135Glasgow City£2,0126East Ayrshire£2,0087Dundee City£2,0078East Dunbartonshire£2,0029Clackmannanshire£1,99710East Lothian£1,98411Falkirk£1,98112Orkney Islands£1,97913Moray£1,97914Renfrewshire£1,97815South Ayrshire£1,97516City of Edinburgh£1,97017West Dunbartonshire£1,96618North Ayrshire£1,96119Inverclyde£1,95920Perth and Kinross£1,94621Aberdeenshire£1,94222East Renfrewshire£1,93823Highland£1,93724West Lothian£1,92725Fife£1,91226Scottish Borders£1,90627Angus£1,87928Dumfries and Galloway£1,87329North Lanarkshire£1,87130Na h-Eileanan Siar£1,81331Shetland Islands£1,81232South Lanarkshire£1,805
Other bands
Not sure which band you are? Check with your postcode, or look the property up free on the Scottish Assessors site.
Straight answers
Questions people ask
How much is Band C council tax?
It depends on the council. Across Scotland, Band C runs from £1,805 a year in South Lanarkshire to £2,061 in Midlothian, water included — about £163.87 a month in a typical area.
How much is Band C council tax a month?
Between £150.46 and £171.74 a month over 12 instalments. Most Scottish councils spread it over 10 from April to January instead, so payments are larger but February and March are free.
Does Band C council tax include water?
Your bill does. At Band C Scottish Water charges £268.40 for water and £311.44 for waste water, £579.84 in total, collected with the council tax.
Where these figures come from
- Council Tax by band 2025-26, council tax datasets — Scottish Government
- Your charges explained 2026-27 — Scottish Water
Council tax 2025-26, water and waste water 2026-27. Some councils have announced rises for 2026-27 that are not in the national dataset yet.