Derbyshire County Council

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

Derbyshire County Council is the county council for Derbyshire. It runs schools, roads, social care and libraries. Bins, council tax and planning are run by its 8 district councils. ONS places 21,024 postcodes in use in Derbyshire, in 48 postcode districts across 6 postcode areas.

88% of homes and businesses in Derbyshire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 7,469 homes and businesses in Derbyshire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
10
Postcodes in use
21,024
Postcode districts
48
District councils
8

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

Its website

Derbyshire County Council

derbyshire.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Derbyshire County 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.

Roads and parking

Schools

Care, support and libraries

Councillors, voting and complaints

The pages are the ones GOV.UK lists for Derbyshire County Council. GOV.UK lists 11. 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 Derbyshire?

Across Derbyshire, 88% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 87% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre87% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)88% 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 many homes in Derbyshire are at risk of flooding?

Across Derbyshire, the Environment Agency puts 7,469 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2,187 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 2,187 postcodes High: 4,709Medium: 2,760Low: 18,595Very low: 5,705

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 Derbyshire the Environment Agency counts 8,537 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water, 8,411 at medium risk and 30,492 at low risk. 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

District councils in Derbyshire

Bins, council tax and planning are run by the district, borough or city council for each part of Derbyshire.

Amber Valley council, postcodes in use:2,950Bolsover council, postcodes in use:2,109Chesterfield council, postcodes in use:2,903Derbyshire Dales council, postcodes in use:2,300Erewash council, postcodes in use:2,442High Peak council, postcodes in use:2,888North East Derbyshire council, postcodes in use:2,784South Derbyshire council, postcodes in use:2,648

Postcode districts with postcodes in Derbyshire

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

Its postcode areas

DE postcode area: Derby, postcodes in use here:9,289 of 17,984LE postcode area: Leicester, postcodes in use here:11 of 23,346NG postcode area: Nottingham, postcodes in use here:1,726 of 29,864S postcode area: Sheffield, postcodes in use here:6,990 of 34,522SK postcode area: Stockport, postcodes in use here:3,004 of 16,696ST postcode area: Stoke-on-Trent, postcodes in use here:4 of 17,871

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

Towns and villages

ChesterfieldIlkestonLong EatonSwadlincoteBuxtonDronfieldRipleyGlossopHeanorBelperStaveleyDerbySomercotes and SwanwickMatlockShirebrookBrimingtonClay CrossBolsoverHadfieldNorth Wingfield and HolmewoodClowneNew MillsSouth NormantonSandiacre

The 24 with the most postcodes in Derbyshire, of 69. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Derbyshire?

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

All councils, A to Z

What Derbyshire 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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