Warwickshire County Council

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

Warwickshire County Council is the county council for Warwickshire. It runs schools, roads, social care and libraries. Bins, council tax and planning are run by its 5 district councils. ONS places 16,672 postcodes in use in Warwickshire, in 48 postcode districts across 7 postcode areas.

88% of homes and businesses in Warwickshire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 5,596 homes and businesses in Warwickshire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
11
Postcodes in use
16,672
Postcode districts
48
District councils
5

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

Its website

Warwickshire County Council

warwickshire.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Warwickshire County Council's own website

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Roads and parking

Schools

Care, support and libraries

Councillors, voting and complaints

The pages are the ones GOV.UK lists for Warwickshire County Council. If one has moved since, tell us.

What broadband can you get in Warwickshire?

Across Warwickshire, 88% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 76% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre76% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)88% 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 Warwickshire are at risk of flooding?

Across Warwickshire, the Environment Agency puts 5,596 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1,338 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1,338 postcodes High: 3,343Medium: 2,253Low: 6,730Very low: 873

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 Warwickshire the Environment Agency counts 9,975 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water, 8,586 at medium risk and 25,118 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 Warwickshire

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

North Warwickshire council, postcodes in use:2,003Nuneaton and Bedworth council, postcodes in use:2,725Rugby council, postcodes in use:2,923Stratford-on-Avon council, postcodes in use:4,911Warwick council, postcodes in use:4,110

Postcode districts with postcodes in Warwickshire

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:2,483 of 41,844CV postcode area: Coventry, postcodes in use here:13,889 of 21,267GL postcode area: Gloucester, postcodes in use here:60 of 21,671LE postcode area: Leicester, postcodes in use here:55 of 23,346NN postcode area: Northampton, postcodes in use here:11 of 17,156OX postcode area: Oxford, postcodes in use here:133 of 20,531WR postcode area: Worcester, postcodes in use here:41 of 9,020

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

Towns and villages

RugbyNuneatonRoyal Leamington SpaWarwickStratford-upon-AvonBedworthKenilworthAtherstoneColeshillSouthamAlcesterWellesbournePolesworth and DordonShipston-on-StourWhitnashStudleyBidford-on-AvonCawstonBulkingtonHenley-in-ArdenKingsburyLong LawfordCubbingtonWater Orton

The 24 with the most postcodes in Warwickshire, of 47. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Warwickshire?

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

All councils, A to Z

What Warwickshire 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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