Powys County Council

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

Powys County Council is the one council for Powys: it runs bins, council tax and planning, and schools, roads and social care. ONS places 6,124 postcodes in use in Powys, in 31 postcode districts across 6 postcode areas.

62% of homes and businesses in Powys can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says.

Its own pages listed
8
Postcodes in use
6,124
Postcode districts
31
Towns and villages
17

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

Its website

Powys County Council

powys.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Powys 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.

Council tax

Planning and building

Housing

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Councillors, voting and complaints

The pages are the ones GOV.UK lists for Powys County Council. GOV.UK lists 26. When we opened them on 14 October 2026, 18 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 Powys?

Across Powys, 62% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 62% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre62% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)62% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)87% can get it
Cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s)2%

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 Powys?

Band D for 2026‑27: £2,352 a year

Every other band is a fixed share of Band D, set in law. Band A is two thirds of it; band I is two and a third times it.

BandA year
Band A£1,568
Band B£1,829
Band C£2,090
Band D£2,352
Band E£2,874
Band F£3,397
Band G£3,920
Band H£4,703
Band I£5,487

Band D is the average across the area, including police and community 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: Welsh Government (StatsWales), Composition of average band D council tax by billing authority, published 24 March 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Postcode districts with postcodes in Powys

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

Its postcode areas

CF postcode area: Cardiff, postcodes in use here:9 of 23,435HR postcode area: Hereford, postcodes in use here:249 of 6,561LD postcode area: Llandrindod Wells, postcodes in use here:2,168 of 2,216NP postcode area: Newport, postcodes in use here:191 of 13,893SA postcode area: Swansea, postcodes in use here:394 of 23,295SY postcode area: Shrewsbury, postcodes in use here:3,113 of 14,641

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

Towns and villages

NewtownBreconWelshpoolLlandrindod WellsYstradgynlaisLlanidloesYstalyferaMachynllethBuilth WellsKnightonHay-on-WyePresteigneRhayaderCrickhowellLlanfyllinMontgomeryTalgarth

Is an address in Powys?

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

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What Powys 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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