Cornwall Council

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

Cornwall Council is the one council for Cornwall: there is no county council above it, so it runs bins, council tax and planning, and schools, roads and social care. ONS places 22,065 postcodes in use in Cornwall, in 47 postcode districts across 3 postcode areas.

66% of homes and businesses in Cornwall can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 10,839 homes and businesses in Cornwall in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
27
Postcodes in use
22,065
Postcode districts
47
Towns and villages
59

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

Its website

Cornwall Council

cornwall.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Cornwall 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 Cornwall Council. If one has moved since, tell us.

What broadband can you get in Cornwall?

Across Cornwall, 66% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 65% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre65% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)66% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)93% 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 Cornwall?

Band D for 2026‑27: £2,591 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£1,727
Band B£2,015
Band C£2,303
Band D£2,591
Band E£3,167
Band F£3,742
Band G£4,318
Band H£5,182

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 Cornwall are at risk of flooding?

Across Cornwall, the Environment Agency puts 10,839 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2,308 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 2,308 postcodes High: 7,270Medium: 3,569Low: 4,211Very low: 2,151

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 Cornwall the Environment Agency counts 6,295 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water (1.5% of all its properties), 5,945 at medium risk (1.4%) and 22,942 at low risk (5.5%). 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 Cornwall

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

Its postcode areas

EX postcode area: Exeter, postcodes in use here:773 of 22,913PL postcode area: Plymouth, postcodes in use here:8,827 of 17,884TR postcode area: Truro, postcodes in use here:12,465 of 12,559

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

Towns and villages

TruroNewquayFalmouthSt AustellPenzanceCamborneRedruthBodminSaltashLiskeardSt Ives, CornwallLauncestonHelstonLooePenrynBudeHayleWadebridgeNewlynTorpointCallingtonCarbis BayGunnislake and St Ann's ChapelPool

The 24 with the most postcodes in Cornwall, of 59. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Cornwall?

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

All councils, A to Z

What Cornwall 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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