Surrey County Council

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

Surrey County Council is the county council for Surrey. It runs schools, roads, social care and libraries. Bins, council tax and planning are run by its 11 district councils. ONS places 33,684 postcodes in use in Surrey, in 78 postcode districts across 8 postcode areas.

84% of homes and businesses in Surrey can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 23,895 homes and businesses in Surrey in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
10
Postcodes in use
33,684
Postcode districts
78
District councils
11

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

Its website

Surrey County Council

surreycc.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Surrey 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 Surrey 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). 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 Surrey?

Across Surrey, 84% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 72% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre72% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)84% can get it
Superfast (30 Mbit/s or more)98% 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 Surrey are at risk of flooding?

Across Surrey, the Environment Agency puts 23,895 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 4,726 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 4,726 postcodes High: 12,157Medium: 11,738Low: 35,113Very low: 8,754

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 Surrey the Environment Agency counts 15,176 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water, 13,673 at medium risk and 43,361 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 Surrey

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

Elmbridge council, postcodes in use:3,836Epsom and Ewell council, postcodes in use:1,892Guildford council, postcodes in use:4,316Mole Valley council, postcodes in use:3,146Reigate and Banstead council, postcodes in use:3,914Runnymede council, postcodes in use:2,424Spelthorne council, postcodes in use:2,490Surrey Heath council, postcodes in use:2,357Tandridge council, postcodes in use:2,344Waverley council, postcodes in use:4,376Woking council, postcodes in use:2,589

Postcode districts with postcodes in Surrey

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

Its postcode areas

CR postcode area: Croydon, postcodes in use here:1,149 of 8,009GU postcode area: Guildford, postcodes in use here:12,983 of 22,616KT postcode area: Kingston upon Thames, postcodes in use here:10,301 of 14,273RH postcode area: Redhill, postcodes in use here:5,350 of 16,366SL postcode area: Slough, postcodes in use here:15 of 10,672SM postcode area: Sutton, postcodes in use here:488 of 4,326TN postcode area: Tunbridge Wells, postcodes in use here:104 of 23,179TW postcode area: Twickenham, postcodes in use here:3,294 of 11,122

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

Towns and villages

GuildfordWokingWest MoleseyCamberleyEpsomRedhillWest Byfleet, Sheerwater and New HawReigateFarnhamDorkingTadworth and Epsom DownsEghamGreat Bookham and FetchamHorleyWalton-on-ThamesEwellAsh and Ash ValeStaines-upon-ThamesCaterhamWeybridgeAshford, SpelthorneCobhamSunbury-on-ThamesByfleet

The 24 with the most postcodes in Surrey, of 97. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Surrey?

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

All councils, A to Z

What Surrey 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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