Lancashire County Council

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

Lancashire County Council is the county council for Lancashire. It runs schools, roads, social care and libraries. Bins, council tax and planning are run by its 12 district councils. ONS places 33,796 postcodes in use in Lancashire, in 55 postcode districts across 10 postcode areas.

91% of homes and businesses in Lancashire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 20,850 homes and businesses in Lancashire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
10
Postcodes in use
33,796
Postcode districts
55
District councils
12

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

Its website

Lancashire County Council

lancashire.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Lancashire 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 Lancashire County Council. GOV.UK lists 11. When we opened them on 14 October 2026, 1 page did not open for us. 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 Lancashire?

Across Lancashire, 91% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 89% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre89% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)91% 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 Lancashire are at risk of flooding?

Across Lancashire, the Environment Agency puts 20,850 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 5,655 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 5,655 postcodes High: 9,958Medium: 10,892Low: 26,679Very low: 37,556

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 Lancashire the Environment Agency counts 17,007 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water, 17,601 at medium risk and 47,210 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 Lancashire

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

Burnley council, postcodes in use:2,402Chorley council, postcodes in use:2,932Fylde council, postcodes in use:2,355Hyndburn council, postcodes in use:2,004Lancaster council, postcodes in use:4,265Pendle council, postcodes in use:2,966Preston council, postcodes in use:3,638Ribble Valley council, postcodes in use:2,045Rossendale council, postcodes in use:2,436South Ribble council, postcodes in use:2,684West Lancashire council, postcodes in use:2,825Wyre council, postcodes in use:3,244

Postcode districts with postcodes in Lancashire

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

Its postcode areas

BB postcode area: Blackburn, postcodes in use here:10,363 of 13,608BD postcode area: Bradford, postcodes in use here:18 of 17,325BL postcode area: Bolton, postcodes in use here:184 of 10,408FY postcode area: Blackpool, postcodes in use here:3,891 of 7,390L postcode area: Liverpool, postcodes in use here:1,375 of 20,862LA postcode area: Lancaster, postcodes in use here:4,278 of 11,945OL postcode area: Oldham, postcodes in use here:907 of 13,212PR postcode area: Preston, postcodes in use here:11,725 of 13,736WA postcode area: Warrington, postcodes in use here:2 of 18,345WN postcode area: Wigan, postcodes in use here:1,053 of 7,289

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

Towns and villages

PrestonBurnleyLancasterLytham St Anne'sChorleyMorecambeBamber BridgeLeylandNelsonAccringtonRawtenstallFulwoodFleetwoodSkelmersdaleOrmskirkColneBacupThorntonClitheroeHeyshamHaslingdenPenworthamPoulton-le-FyldeEuxton

The 24 with the most postcodes in Lancashire, of 87. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Lancashire?

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

All councils, A to Z

What Lancashire 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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