Manchester City Council

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

Manchester City Council is the one council for Manchester: there is no county council above it, so it runs bins, council tax and planning, and schools, roads and social care. ONS places 14,281 postcodes in use in Manchester, in 30 postcode districts across 3 postcode areas.

90% of homes and businesses in Manchester can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 5,656 homes and businesses in Manchester in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
22
Postcodes in use
14,281
Postcode districts
30
Towns and villages
10

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

Its website

Manchester City Council

manchester.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Manchester 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 Manchester City Council. GOV.UK lists 27. When we opened them on 14 October 2026, 5 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 Manchester?

Across Manchester, 90% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 87% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre87% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)90% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)96% can get it

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 Manchester?

Band D for 2026‑27: £2,312 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£1,541
Band B£1,798
Band C£2,055
Band D£2,312
Band E£2,826
Band F£3,340
Band G£3,853
Band H£4,624

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 Manchester are at risk of flooding?

Across Manchester, the Environment Agency puts 5,656 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1,359 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1,359 postcodes High: 1,437Medium: 4,219Low: 15,907Very low: 1,251

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 Manchester the Environment Agency counts 5,688 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water (1.9% of all its properties), 11,537 at medium risk (3.8%) and 42,200 at low risk (14%). 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 Manchester

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

Its postcode areas

M postcode area: Manchester, postcodes in use here:14,263 of 32,420SK postcode area: Stockport, postcodes in use here:1 of 16,696WA postcode area: Warrington, postcodes in use here:17 of 18,345

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

Towns and villages

ManchesterWythenshaweHaleDentonSaleSalfordDroylsdenFailsworthMiddletonOld Trafford

Is an address in Manchester?

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

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What Manchester 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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