Nottinghamshire County Council

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

Nottinghamshire County Council is the county council for Nottinghamshire. It runs schools, roads, social care and libraries. Bins, council tax and planning are run by its 7 district councils. ONS places 21,408 postcodes in use in Nottinghamshire, in 39 postcode districts across 6 postcode areas.

90% of homes and businesses in Nottinghamshire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 9,454 homes and businesses in Nottinghamshire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed: 11
Postcodes in use: 21,408
Postcode districts: 39
District councils: 7

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

Its website

Nottinghamshire County Council

nottinghamshire.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

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

What broadband can you get in Nottinghamshire?

Across Nottinghamshire, 90% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 81% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre81% can get it

Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)90% can get it

Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)99% 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 Nottinghamshire are at risk of flooding?

Across Nottinghamshire, the Environment Agency puts 9,454 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2,692 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 2,692 postcodes High: 5,638Medium: 3,816Low: 27,199Very low: 5,714

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 Nottinghamshire the Environment Agency counts 9,928 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water, 11,344 at medium risk and 39,577 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 Nottinghamshire

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

Ashfield council, postcodes in use:2,751 Bassetlaw council, postcodes in use:3,929 Broxtowe council, postcodes in use:2,622 Gedling council, postcodes in use:2,715 Mansfield council, postcodes in use:2,673 Newark and Sherwood council, postcodes in use:3,673 Rushcliffe council, postcodes in use:3,045

Postcode districts with postcodes in Nottinghamshire

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

Its postcode areas

DE postcode area: Derby, postcodes in use here:8 of 17,984 DN postcode area: Doncaster, postcodes in use here:1,939 of 22,343 LE postcode area: Leicester, postcodes in use here:336 of 23,346 LN postcode area: Lincoln, postcodes in use here:2 of 9,575 NG postcode area: Nottingham, postcodes in use here:17,420 of 29,864 S postcode area: Sheffield, postcodes in use here:1,703 of 34,522

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

Towns and villages

The 24 with the most postcodes in Nottinghamshire, of 59. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Nottinghamshire?

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

All councils, A to Z

What Nottinghamshire 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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