What you pay in rates depends on two things: the rateable value of your home, measured in quarters, and the rate per quarter set by your parish, plus the Island-wide Rate. Work out your bill, then see how every parish compares.
Rates for 2026. Rateable values from the parish Rates Lists as they stood in late April 2026.
A typical home pays
£429 to £570
A year, depending on the parish, for an owner living in a home of 9,800 quarters
Highest parish rate
1.95p
St Mary, per quarter
Lowest parish rate
1.23p
St John, per quarter
Island-wide Rate
0.96p
Per quarter for homes, up from 0.94p in 2025
Work out your rates
An owner who lives in the home pays both the owner’s (foncier) and the occupier’s rate on the full rateable value. A landlord of a furnished let is liable for the occupier’s rate too, though it can be recovered from the tenant. Your rate demand from the parish is the final word.
Rates in each parish
Each parish sets its own rate per quarter at its Parish Assembly, to cover its spending. Every ratepayer also pays the Island-wide Rate, 0.96p a quarter for homes and 1.41p for business premises, which the parishes pass to the States.
Parish rate per quarter, 2026The same home in every parish: yearly rates for 9,800 quarters
9,800 quarters is the rateable value of the middle home on the island. Owner living in the home, parish rate plus Island-wide Rate.
What a typical home pays in each parish
Homes are bigger and rateable values higher in the country parishes, so a typical bill reflects both the parish rate and the homes in the parish. The middle home in St Mary pays £698 a year; in St Helier it pays £344.
Yearly rates for the middle home in each parish, 2026
Owner living in the home, using each parish’s own median rateable value.
Homes on the Rates Lists and typical rateable values
Parish
Homes
Typical rateable value (quarters)
Middle 50% of homes (quarters)
Typical yearly rates
St Mary
703
12,000
8,600 to 15,030
£698
Grouville
2,195
13,000
10,000 to 18,550
£621
St Brelade
4,515
12,000
9,500 to 16,200
£588
St Martin
1,878
10,930
7,750 to 15,484
£575
Trinity
1,254
11,782
9,841 to 13,814
£556
St Ouen
1,563
11,960
9,610 to 16,000
£555
St Peter
2,396
11,000
8,038 to 14,200
£524
St John
1,221
11,850
10,130 to 15,000
£519
St Lawrence
2,335
11,000
8,600 to 14,500
£497
St Saviour
5,656
9,500
7,500 to 11,505
£485
St Clement
4,349
10,400
8,100 to 12,400
£472
St Helier
16,021
7,380
5,880 to 9,740
£344
How rateable values are spread
Rateable values were fixed in 2004 and change only when a property changes. Half of Jersey’s 44,086 homes are assessed at between 6,960 and 12,604 quarters; nine in ten are below 17,200.
Homes by rateable value, quarters
Rates by type and size of home
The Comité des Connétables’ guide to rates assessment gives examples of rateable values for flats and houses by number of bedrooms and bathrooms. Applied to 2026 rates, they show what similar homes pay in the cheapest and dearest parishes.
Typical yearly rates by type of home in St Helier, 2026
Typical rateable values are the middle of the guide’s examples. Owner living in the home.
Typical yearly rates by type of home, owner living in it
Type of home
Typical rateable value (quarters)
Range in the guide (quarters)
St John
St Helier
St Mary
Bedsit
4,040
3,750 to 4,800
£177
£188
£235
1-bedroom flat
7,050
5,500 to 10,000
£309
£329
£410
2-bedroom flat
9,000
8,300 to 14,450
£394
£419
£524
2-bedroom flat, 2 bathrooms
12,620
7,380 to 30,000
£553
£588
£734
3-bedroom flat
11,850
5,000 to 16,230
£519
£552
£690
1-bedroom house
8,575
7,000 to 10,000
£376
£400
£499
2-bedroom house
11,900
8,000 to 13,600
£521
£555
£693
3-bedroom house, 1 bathroom
10,600
7,735 to 15,500
£464
£494
£617
3-bedroom house, 2 bathrooms
15,150
9,200 to 22,000
£664
£706
£882
3-bedroom house, 3 bathrooms
15,350
11,187 to 22,800
£672
£715
£893
Types of home in each parish
Homes by type, 2021 Census
Detached house
Semi-detached house
Terraced house
Flat in a purpose-built block
Other flat
Occupied homes. “Other flat” covers flats in converted houses or commercial buildings, plus a few temporary homes. Source: 2021 Census, Statistics Jersey.
The average parish rate has risen 42% since 2016, against 52% for prices generally (RPI). The Island-wide Rate for homes has gone from 0.7p to 0.96p a quarter.
Rates per quarter, 2012 to 2026
Average parish rate
Island-wide Rate (homes)
Pence per quarter. The average is the simple average of the twelve parish rates.
Rise in parish rates, 2016 to 2026
Prices in general (RPI) rose 52% over the same ten years.
Parish rate per quarter
Parish
2016
2021
2026
Rise since 2016
Grouville
0.72p
0.99p
1.43p
+99%
St Lawrence
0.8p
0.93p
1.3p
+63%
St Mary
1.2p
1.6p
1.95p
+63%
St Brelade
0.92p
1.1p
1.49p
+62%
St Saviour
1.02p
1.12p
1.59p
+56%
St Clement
0.89p
0.89p
1.31p
+47%
St Peter
1p
1.1p
1.42p
+42%
St Martin
1.22p
1.28p
1.67p
+37%
St John
1p
1p
1.23p
+23%
Trinity
1.14p
1p
1.4p
+23%
St Helier
1.15p
1.15p
1.37p
+19%
St Ouen
1.29p
1.15p
1.36p
+5%
Business premises
Shops, offices, hotels and other business premises make up 30% of Jersey’s rateable value, across 8,239 assessments. They pay a higher Island-wide Rate than homes: 1.41p a quarter, against 0.96p.
Share of each parish's rateable value from business premises
Vingtaine by vingtaine
Jersey’s parishes are divided into vingtaines (cueillettes in St Ouen). The typical rateable value ranges from 6,300 quarters in Bas du Mont-au-Pretre to 15,600 in De La Rue.
Highest typical rateable values
Vingtaine or cueillette
Parish
Homes
Typical rateable value (quarters)
De La Rue
Grouville
223
15,600
Noirmont
St Brelade
1,115
15,000
De La Rocque
Grouville
525
15,000
De Longueville
Grouville
253
13,500
La Moye
St Brelade
801
13,400
Des Augerez
St Peter
247
13,300
Du Coin Varin
St Peter
113
13,200
De Grantez
St Ouen
293
13,014
Lowest typical rateable values
Vingtaine or cueillette
Parish
Homes
Typical rateable value (quarters)
Bas du Mont-au-Pretre
St Helier
2,632
6,300
Rouge Bouillon
St Helier
3,044
6,500
Haut de la Ville
St Helier
4,883
7,045
Bas de la Ville
St Helier
876
7,380
De Rozel
St Martin
368
9,009
Haut du Mont-au-Pretre
St Helier
1,108
9,168
Sous L'Eglise
St Saviour
2,057
9,380
Petite Longueville
St Saviour
2,007
9,400
Vingtaines with at least 100 homes. Typical means the median, in quarters.
About these figures
Rateable values are NSFW’s analysis of the parish Rates Lists, which the Rates (Jersey) Law 2005 requires every parish to publish each year: 53,118 assessments as they stood on 24 to 26 April 2026, when some parishes had not yet published their 2026 lists. The 793 assessments with no rateable value are left out. No individual property is shown.
Parish rates and the Island-wide Rate are as published by the parishes and in the States Assembly report on Island-wide Rate figures for 2026. Typical rateable values by type of home come from A guide to the assessment of Parish Rates in Jersey (Comité des Connétables, June 2025). Types of home and tenure are from the 2021 Census (Statistics Jersey, Open Government Licence – Jersey).