Buckinghamshire Council

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

Buckinghamshire Council is the one council for Buckinghamshire: there is no county council above it, so it runs bins, council tax and planning, and schools, roads and social care. ONS places 16,137 postcodes in use in Buckinghamshire, in 48 postcode districts across 9 postcode areas.

82% of homes and businesses in Buckinghamshire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 3,328 homes and businesses in Buckinghamshire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
26
Postcodes in use
16,137
Postcode districts
48
Towns and villages
48

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

Its website

Buckinghamshire Council

buckinghamshire.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

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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 Buckinghamshire Council. If one has moved since, tell us.

What broadband can you get in Buckinghamshire?

Across Buckinghamshire, 82% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 74% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre74% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)82% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)97% 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 Buckinghamshire?

Band D for 2026‑27: £2,527 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£1,684
Band B£1,965
Band C£2,246
Band D£2,527
Band E£3,088
Band F£3,650
Band G£4,211
Band H£5,053

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 Buckinghamshire are at risk of flooding?

Across Buckinghamshire, the Environment Agency puts 3,328 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1,082 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1,082 postcodes High: 1,770Medium: 1,558Low: 6,648Very low: 1,178

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 Buckinghamshire the Environment Agency counts 11,515 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water (3.9% of all its properties), 6,443 at medium risk (2.2%) and 19,390 at low risk (6.6%). 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 Buckinghamshire

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

Its postcode areas

HP postcode area: Hemel Hempstead, postcodes in use here:10,430 of 14,101LU postcode area: Luton, postcodes in use here:451 of 6,464MK postcode area: Milton Keynes, postcodes in use here:1,571 of 16,215NN postcode area: Northampton, postcodes in use here:39 of 17,156OX postcode area: Oxford, postcodes in use here:88 of 20,531RG postcode area: Reading, postcodes in use here:154 of 23,816SL postcode area: Slough, postcodes in use here:3,157 of 10,672UB postcode area: Southall, postcodes in use here:227 of 7,216WD postcode area: Watford, postcodes in use here:20 of 7,405

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

Towns and villages

AylesburyHigh WycombeCheshamAmershamChalfont St PeterHazlemereMarlowBuckinghamBeaconsfieldSloughFlackwell Heath and Wooburn GreenGerrards CrossBourne EndFarnham Common and Farnham RoyalPrestwood and Great MissendenPrinces RisboroughWendoverLittle ChalfontHaddenhamWinslowIver HeathChalfont St GilesAston ClintonStoke Mandeville

The 24 with the most postcodes in Buckinghamshire, of 48. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Buckinghamshire?

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What Buckinghamshire 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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