Gloucestershire County Council

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

Gloucestershire County Council is the county council for Gloucestershire. It runs schools, roads, social care and libraries. Bins, council tax and planning are run by its 6 district councils. ONS places 21,323 postcodes in use in Gloucestershire, in 39 postcode districts across 6 postcode areas.

85% of homes and businesses in Gloucestershire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 10,503 homes and businesses in Gloucestershire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
9
Postcodes in use
21,323
Postcode districts
39
District councils
6

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

Its website

Gloucestershire County Council

gloucestershire.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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), and 1 more did not open for us. We left those 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 Gloucestershire?

Across Gloucestershire, 85% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 79% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre79% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)85% 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 Gloucestershire are at risk of flooding?

Across Gloucestershire, the Environment Agency puts 10,503 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2,315 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 2,315 postcodes High: 5,501Medium: 5,002Low: 7,395Very low: 2,403

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 Gloucestershire the Environment Agency counts 12,456 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water, 11,203 at medium risk and 32,307 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 Gloucestershire

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

Cheltenham council, postcodes in use:3,889Cotswold council, postcodes in use:3,700Forest of Dean council, postcodes in use:3,311Gloucester council, postcodes in use:3,105Stroud council, postcodes in use:4,190Tewkesbury council, postcodes in use:3,128

Postcode districts with postcodes in Gloucestershire

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:20,939 of 21,671HR postcode area: Hereford, postcodes in use here:36 of 6,561NP postcode area: Newport, postcodes in use here:209 of 13,893OX postcode area: Oxford, postcodes in use here:57 of 20,531SN postcode area: Swindon, postcodes in use here:2 of 14,710WR postcode area: Worcester, postcodes in use here:80 of 9,020

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

Towns and villages

CheltenhamGloucesterStroudCirencesterTewkesburyQuedgeley and HardwickeCinderfordBishop's CleeveBrockworthLydneyInnsworthCamStonehouseNailsworthDursleyChalfordTetburyMoreton-in-MarshColefordNewentWotton-under-EdgeBourton-on-the-WaterFairfordWinchcombe

The 24 with the most postcodes in Gloucestershire, of 55. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Gloucestershire?

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

All councils, A to Z

What Gloucestershire 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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