Lincolnshire County Council

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

Lincolnshire County Council is the county council for Lincolnshire. It runs schools, roads, social care and libraries. Bins, council tax and planning are run by its 7 district councils. ONS places 23,748 postcodes in use in Lincolnshire, in 41 postcode districts across 4 postcode areas.

78% of homes and businesses in Lincolnshire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 61,227 homes and businesses in Lincolnshire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed: 10
Postcodes in use: 23,748
Postcode districts: 41
District councils: 7

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

Its website

Lincolnshire County Council

lincolnshire.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Lincolnshire 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 Lincolnshire 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 Lincolnshire?

Across Lincolnshire, 78% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 73% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre73% can get it

Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)78% 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 many homes in Lincolnshire are at risk of flooding?

Across Lincolnshire, the Environment Agency puts 61,227 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 9,017 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 9,017 postcodes High: 12,384Medium: 48,843Low: 118,532Very low: 11,868

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 Lincolnshire the Environment Agency counts 12,058 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water, 13,128 at medium risk and 40,302 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 Lincolnshire

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

Boston council, postcodes in use:2,105 East Lindsey council, postcodes in use:5,289 Lincoln council, postcodes in use:2,514 North Kesteven council, postcodes in use:3,438 South Holland council, postcodes in use:2,865 South Kesteven council, postcodes in use:4,217 West Lindsey council, postcodes in use:3,320

Postcode districts with postcodes in Lincolnshire

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

Its postcode areas

DN postcode area: Doncaster, postcodes in use here:1,679 of 22,343 LN postcode area: Lincoln, postcodes in use here:9,563 of 9,575 NG postcode area: Nottingham, postcodes in use here:3,683 of 29,864 PE postcode area: Peterborough, postcodes in use here:8,823 of 27,768

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

Towns and villages

The 24 with the most postcodes in Lincolnshire, of 60. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Lincolnshire?

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

All councils, A to Z

What Lincolnshire 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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