FI17012
Request
1 . The number of households in council tax arrears for each financial year from 2015-16 to 2025-26.
2. Of those households who are in council tax arrears please provide the average amount of arrears a household is in for each financial year from 2015-16 to 2025-26.
3. The total amount of council tax arrears for each financial year from 2015-16 to 2025-26.
Response
1. As follows:
|
Year
|
Number of Accounts in arrears
|
|
2015/16
|
870
|
|
2016/17
|
960
|
|
2017/18
|
1,187
|
|
2018/19
|
1,356
|
|
2019/20
|
1,380
|
|
2020/21
|
1,140
|
|
2021/22
|
1,691
|
|
2022/23
|
1,892
|
|
2023/24
|
2,472
|
|
2024/25
|
3,032
|
|
2025/26
|
2,875
|
2. As follows:
|
Year
|
Average arrears
|
|
2015/16
|
£497.02
|
|
2016/17
|
£523.16
|
|
2017/18
|
£542.98
|
|
2018/19
|
£566.89
|
|
2019/20
|
£633.44
|
|
2020/21
|
£765.04
|
|
2021/22
|
£692.70
|
|
2022/23
|
£698.56
|
|
2023/24
|
£762.26
|
|
2024/25
|
£820.09
|
|
2025/26
|
£1,017.37
|
3. As follows:
|
Year
|
Total Arrears
|
|
2015/16
|
£366,797.94
|
|
2016/17
|
£431,603.65
|
|
2017/18
|
£567,952.78
|
|
2018/19
|
£691,034.30
|
|
2019/20
|
£810,798.61
|
|
2020/21
|
£827,008.32
|
|
2021/22
|
£1,063,982.91
|
|
2022/23
|
£1,238,542.08
|
|
2023/24
|
£1,700,601.15
|
|
2024/25
|
£2,267,559.84
|
|
2025/26
|
£2,858,808.07
|