Where your Council Tax goes

How your weekly council tax payment (based on band A) contributes to providing services (2023 - 2024)

• Education - £3.19
• Highways, roads, transport and street lighting - £1.10
• Adult social care - £10.35
• Children's social care - £5.07
• Housing - -1p
• Cultural services (including libraries) - £1.18
• Planning and development - 19p
• Public Health - £2.36
• Environmental services (including street lighting) - 96p
• Refuse collection and disposal - £1.79
• Other services - -£4.13
• Integrated Transport Authority - £1.40
• Total: £23.46

See also

• Find your Council Tax band
• Council budget
• Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria
• Tyne and Wear Fire and Rescue Authority
• North East Combined Authority (NECA) Transport Levy
• Environment Agency funding