Herefordshire Council

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

Herefordshire Council is the one council for County of Herefordshire: there is no county council above it, so it runs bins, council tax and planning, and schools, roads and social care. ONS places 6,851 postcodes in use in County of Herefordshire, in 20 postcode districts across 6 postcode areas.

82% of homes and businesses in County of Herefordshire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 3,668 homes and businesses in County of Herefordshire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
26
Postcodes in use
6,851
Postcode districts
20
Towns and villages
12

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

Its website

Herefordshire Council

herefordshire.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire 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 County of Herefordshire?

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

Full fibre82% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)82% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)95% 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 County of Herefordshire?

Band D for 2026‑27: £2,574 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£1,716
Band B£2,002
Band C£2,288
Band D£2,574
Band E£3,146
Band F£3,719
Band G£4,291
Band H£5,149

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 County of Herefordshire are at risk of flooding?

Across County of Herefordshire, the Environment Agency puts 3,668 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 914 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 914 postcodes High: 1,924Medium: 1,744Low: 3,486Very low: 393

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 County of Herefordshire the Environment Agency counts 3,025 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water (2.2% of all its properties), 2,786 at medium risk (2%) and 8,718 at low risk (6.3%). 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 County of Herefordshire

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

Its postcode areas

GL postcode area: Gloucester, postcodes in use here:15 of 21,671HR postcode area: Hereford, postcodes in use here:6,267 of 6,561LD postcode area: Llandrindod Wells, postcodes in use here:26 of 2,216NP postcode area: Newport, postcodes in use here:22 of 13,893SY postcode area: Shrewsbury, postcodes in use here:194 of 14,641WR postcode area: Worcester, postcodes in use here:327 of 9,020

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

Towns and villages

HerefordRoss-on-WyeLeominsterLedburyBromyardKingtonEwyas Harold and PontrilasColwall StoneGreat MalvernHay-on-WyePresteigneWelsh Bicknor

Is an address in County of Herefordshire?

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

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What County of Herefordshire 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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