Leeds City Council

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

Leeds City Council is the one council for Leeds: there is no county council above it, so it runs bins, council tax and planning, and schools, roads and social care. ONS places 20,855 postcodes in use in Leeds, in 41 postcode districts across 3 postcode areas.

96% of homes and businesses in Leeds can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 6,296 homes and businesses in Leeds in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
17
Postcodes in use
20,855
Postcode districts
41
Towns and villages
38

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

Its website

Leeds City Council

leeds.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Leeds City 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 Leeds City Council. GOV.UK lists 26. When we opened them on 14 October 2026, 9 pages had gone (missing, or moved to a page about something else). 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 Leeds?

Across Leeds, 96% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 93% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre93% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)96% 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 much is council tax in Leeds?

Band D for 2026‑27: £2,284 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£1,522
Band B£1,776
Band C£2,030
Band D£2,284
Band E£2,791
Band F£3,299
Band G£3,806
Band H£4,567

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 Leeds are at risk of flooding?

Across Leeds, the Environment Agency puts 6,296 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1,151 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1,151 postcodes High: 2,879Medium: 3,417Low: 12,117Very low: 797

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 Leeds the Environment Agency counts 10,439 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water (2.3% of all its properties), 12,112 at medium risk (2.7%) and 32,993 at low risk (7.4%). 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 Leeds

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

Its postcode areas

BD postcode area: Bradford, postcodes in use here:247 of 17,325LS postcode area: Leeds, postcodes in use here:19,811 of 22,198WF postcode area: Wakefield, postcodes in use here:797 of 14,745

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

Towns and villages

LeedsPudseyMorleyRothwellEast ArdsleyOtleyGarforthYeadonWetherbyGuiseleyRawdonKippaxBoston SpaGildersomeDrighlingtonLofthouse and Robin HoodBramhopeMickletownBradfordBarwick in ElmetCalverleyMicklefieldCollingham, LeedsThorp Arch

The 24 with the most postcodes in Leeds, of 38. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Leeds?

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

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What Leeds 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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