Birmingham City Council

Bins, council tax and planning, and what the council covers

Birmingham City Council is the one council for Birmingham: there is no county council above it, so it runs bins, council tax and planning, and schools, roads and social care. ONS places 21,556 postcodes in use in Birmingham, in 51 postcode districts of the B postcode area.

95% of homes and businesses in Birmingham can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 5,721 homes and businesses in Birmingham in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
26
Postcodes in use
21,556
Postcode districts
51
Towns and villages
3

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Its website

Birmingham City Council

birmingham.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Birmingham City Council's own website

Each link goes straight to the page on the council's own website for that task. We opened every one on 14 October 2026.

Bins and recycling

Council tax

Planning and building

Housing

Roads and parking

Report a problem

Schools

Care, support and libraries

Councillors, voting and complaints

The pages are the ones GOV.UK lists for Birmingham City Council. GOV.UK lists 27. When we opened them on 14 October 2026, 1 page had gone (missing, or moved to a page about something else). We left it out rather than send you to a page we could not see. If one has moved since, tell us.

What broadband can you get in Birmingham?

Across Birmingham, 95% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 86% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre86% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)95% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)98% can get it
Cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s)Under 1%

For one street, look up its postcode: each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

How much is council tax in Birmingham?

Band D for 2026‑27: £2,363 a year

Every other band is a fixed share of Band D, set in law. Band A is two thirds of it; band H is twice it.

BandA year
Band A£1,575
Band B£1,838
Band C£2,100
Band D£2,363
Band E£2,888
Band F£3,413
Band G£3,938
Band H£4,726

Band D is the average across the area, including the county council, police, fire and combined authority charges, and parish or town council charges, so a home's own bill can be a little different. Bands other than D are worked out by us from Band D and rounded to the pound. A home's bill also takes off any discount, such as 25% for one adult living alone.

Check one home's band on GOV.UK

Source: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 10, published 25 March 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

How many homes in Birmingham are at risk of flooding?

Across Birmingham, the Environment Agency puts 5,721 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 982 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 982 postcodes High: 2,735Medium: 2,986Low: 5,174Very low: 2,513

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them. It leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Surface water

In Birmingham the Environment Agency counts 9,892 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water (1.9% of all its properties), 12,724 at medium risk (2.4%) and 41,254 at low risk (7.8%). Surface water is rain that cannot drain away fast enough.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Surface Water, properties at risk by local authority, version 2025-09, listed 18 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Postcode districts with postcodes in Birmingham

Counted from the ONS Postcode Directory. A postcode district is drawn for sorting post, so many cross a council's edge.

Its postcode area

B postcode area: Birmingham, postcodes in use here:21,556 of 41,844

Beside each area: how many of its postcodes in use are in Birmingham.

Towns and villages

BirminghamRoyal Sutton ColdfieldSolihull

Is an address in Birmingham?

A council's edge does not follow postcodes exactly. Check the postcode.

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What Birmingham covers: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Its name, website and own pages: GOV.UK, Local authority services, downloaded 14 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0; every link opened on 14 October 2026. See all our data sources

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