Shetland Islands Council

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

Shetland Islands Council is the one council for Shetland Islands: it runs bins, council tax and planning, and schools, roads and social care. ONS places 658 postcodes in use in Shetland Islands, in 3 postcode districts of the ZE postcode area.

20% of homes and businesses in Shetland Islands can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says.

Its own pages listed
17
Postcodes in use
658
Postcode districts
3
Towns and villages
1

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

Its website

Shetland Islands Council

shetland.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Shetland Islands 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 Shetland Islands Council. GOV.UK lists 18. When we opened them on 14 October 2026, 1 page had gone (missing, or moved to a page about something else). We left it 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 Shetland Islands?

Across Shetland Islands, 20% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 20% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre20% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)20% 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 Shetland Islands?

Band D for 2026‑27: £1,488 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 nearly two and a half times it.

BandA year
Band A£992
Band B£1,157
Band C£1,323
Band D£1,488
Band E£1,955
Band F£2,418
Band G£2,914
Band H£3,645

Band D is the average across the area, 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. The figures do not include water and sewerage charges. A home's bill also takes off any discount, such as 25% for one adult living alone.

Check one home's band with the Scottish Assessors

Source: Scottish Government, Council Tax by band 2026-27, published 31 March 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Postcode districts with postcodes in Shetland Islands

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

Its postcode area

ZE postcode area: Lerwick, postcodes in use here:658 of 658

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

Towns and villages

Lerwick

Is an address in Shetland Islands?

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

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What Shetland Islands 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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