North Yorkshire Council

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

North Yorkshire Council is the one council for North Yorkshire: there is no county council above it, so it runs bins, council tax and planning, and schools, roads and social care. ONS places 23,966 postcodes in use in North Yorkshire, in 57 postcode districts across 10 postcode areas.

83% of homes and businesses in North Yorkshire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 18,985 homes and businesses in North Yorkshire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
27
Postcodes in use
23,966
Postcode districts
57
Towns and villages
63

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

Its website

North Yorkshire Council

northyorks.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

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Bins and recycling

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Housing

Roads and parking

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Schools

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The pages are the ones GOV.UK lists for North Yorkshire Council. If one has moved since, tell us.

What broadband can you get in North Yorkshire?

Across North Yorkshire, 83% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 82% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre82% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)83% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)96% 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 North Yorkshire?

Band D for 2026‑27: £2,544 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£1,696
Band B£1,979
Band C£2,262
Band D£2,544
Band E£3,110
Band F£3,675
Band G£4,241
Band H£5,089

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 North Yorkshire are at risk of flooding?

Across North Yorkshire, the Environment Agency puts 18,985 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 4,006 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 4,006 postcodes High: 11,720Medium: 7,265Low: 26,249Very low: 3,755

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 North Yorkshire the Environment Agency counts 10,517 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water (2.3% of all its properties), 8,964 at medium risk (2%) and 30,178 at low risk (6.7%). 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 North Yorkshire

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:2 of 13,608BD postcode area: Bradford, postcodes in use here:2,381 of 17,325DL postcode area: Darlington, postcodes in use here:4,370 of 13,555DN postcode area: Doncaster, postcodes in use here:367 of 22,343HG postcode area: Harrogate, postcodes in use here:4,528 of 4,528LA postcode area: Lancaster, postcodes in use here:441 of 11,945LS postcode area: Leeds, postcodes in use here:1,223 of 22,198TS postcode area: Cleveland, postcodes in use here:800 of 17,884WF postcode area: Wakefield, postcodes in use here:162 of 14,745YO postcode area: York, postcodes in use here:9,692 of 19,287

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

Towns and villages

HarrogateScarboroughSkiptonWhitbySelbyNorthallertonKnaresboroughRiponCatterick GarrisonRichmondMaltonFileyThirskSherburn in ElmetPickeringEasingwoldCross Hills and SteetonNorton-on-DerwentStokesleyTadcasterSettleGreat AytonSowerbyBedale

The 24 with the most postcodes in North Yorkshire, of 63. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in North Yorkshire?

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

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What North Yorkshire 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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