Staffordshire County Council

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

Staffordshire County Council is the county council for Staffordshire. It runs schools, roads, social care and libraries. Bins, council tax and planning are run by its 8 district councils. ONS places 23,089 postcodes in use in Staffordshire, in 64 postcode districts across 9 postcode areas.

85% of homes and businesses in Staffordshire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 3,575 homes and businesses in Staffordshire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
9
Postcodes in use
23,089
Postcode districts
64
District councils
8

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

Its website

Staffordshire County Council

staffordshire.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire County Council. GOV.UK lists 11. When we opened them on 14 October 2026, 1 page had gone (missing, or moved to a page about something else), and 1 more did not open for us. 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 Staffordshire?

Across Staffordshire, 85% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 80% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre80% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)85% 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 Staffordshire are at risk of flooding?

Across Staffordshire, the Environment Agency puts 3,575 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1,880 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1,880 postcodes High: 1,884Medium: 1,691Low: 5,875Very low: 16,553

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 Staffordshire the Environment Agency counts 12,202 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water, 11,973 at medium risk and 36,200 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 Staffordshire

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

Cannock Chase council, postcodes in use:2,242East Staffordshire council, postcodes in use:3,015Lichfield council, postcodes in use:3,108Newcastle-under-Lyme council, postcodes in use:3,212South Staffordshire council, postcodes in use:3,051Stafford council, postcodes in use:3,892Staffordshire Moorlands council, postcodes in use:3,016Tamworth council, postcodes in use:1,553

Postcode districts with postcodes in Staffordshire

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

Its postcode areas

B postcode area: Birmingham, postcodes in use here:1,980 of 41,844CW postcode area: Crewe, postcodes in use here:199 of 9,862DE postcode area: Derby, postcodes in use here:2,309 of 17,984DY postcode area: Dudley, postcodes in use here:443 of 11,102SK postcode area: Stockport, postcodes in use here:167 of 16,696ST postcode area: Stoke-on-Trent, postcodes in use here:10,702 of 17,871TF postcode area: Telford, postcodes in use here:339 of 7,234WS postcode area: Walsall, postcodes in use here:5,405 of 10,307WV postcode area: Wolverhampton, postcodes in use here:1,545 of 10,650

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

Towns and villages

Newcastle-under-LymeStaffordBurton upon TrentTamworthCannockLichfieldBurntwoodLeekRugeleyStoneBiddulphUttoxeterWombourneGreat Wyrley and Cheslyn HayKidsgroveCodsallCheadle, Staffordshire MoorlandsPenkridgePertonNorton CanesFazeleyBlythe BridgeKinverWerrington

The 24 with the most postcodes in Staffordshire, of 66. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Staffordshire?

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

All councils, A to Z

What Staffordshire 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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