Norfolk County Council

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

Norfolk County Council is the county council for Norfolk. It runs schools, roads, social care and libraries. Bins, council tax and planning are run by its 7 district councils. ONS places 29,636 postcodes in use in Norfolk, in 55 postcode districts across 4 postcode areas.

73% of homes and businesses in Norfolk can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 16,571 homes and businesses in Norfolk in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
11
Postcodes in use
29,636
Postcode districts
55
District councils
7

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

Its website

Norfolk County Council

norfolk.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Norfolk 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 Norfolk County Council. If one has moved since, tell us.

What broadband can you get in Norfolk?

Across Norfolk, 73% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 70% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre70% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)73% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)97% 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 Norfolk are at risk of flooding?

Across Norfolk, the Environment Agency puts 16,571 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 4,167 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 4,167 postcodes High: 4,457Medium: 12,114Low: 19,028Very low: 26,124

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 Norfolk the Environment Agency counts 10,412 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water, 11,365 at medium risk and 35,310 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 Norfolk

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

Breckland council, postcodes in use:4,723Broadland council, postcodes in use:4,255Great Yarmouth council, postcodes in use:2,760King's Lynn and West Norfolk council, postcodes in use:5,126North Norfolk council, postcodes in use:4,556Norwich council, postcodes in use:3,343South Norfolk council, postcodes in use:4,873

Postcode districts with postcodes in Norfolk

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

Its postcode areas

CB postcode area: Cambridge, postcodes in use here:6 of 11,252IP postcode area: Ipswich, postcodes in use here:2,812 of 21,951NR postcode area: Norwich, postcodes in use here:21,307 of 24,304PE postcode area: Peterborough, postcodes in use here:5,511 of 27,768

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

Towns and villages

NorwichKing's LynnGreat YarmouthDerehamThetfordGorleston-on-SeaWymondhamNorth WalshamTaverham and DraytonFakenhamDownham MarketDissWattonSwaffhamAttleboroughSheringhamCromerCaister-on-SeaBradwellHunstantonPoringlandAylshamHoltHethersett

The 24 with the most postcodes in Norfolk, of 74. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Norfolk?

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

All councils, A to Z

What Norfolk 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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