Wiltshire Council

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

Wiltshire Council is the one council for Wiltshire: there is no county council above it, so it runs bins, council tax and planning, and schools, roads and social care. ONS places 17,095 postcodes in use in Wiltshire, in 33 postcode districts across 6 postcode areas.

77% of homes and businesses in Wiltshire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 4,537 homes and businesses in Wiltshire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
24
Postcodes in use
17,095
Postcode districts
33
Towns and villages
40

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

Its website

Wiltshire Council

wiltshire.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire Council. GOV.UK lists 25. 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 Wiltshire?

Across Wiltshire, 77% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 70% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre70% can get it
Gigabit (1,000 Mbit/s)77% 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 much is council tax in Wiltshire?

Band D for 2026‑27: £2,572 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 twice it.

BandA year
Band A£1,715
Band B£2,000
Band C£2,286
Band D£2,572
Band E£3,143
Band F£3,715
Band G£4,286
Band H£5,144

Band D is the average across the area, including the county council, police, fire and combined authority charges, and parish or town 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: Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, Council Tax levels set by local authorities in England 2026 to 2027, Table 10, published 25 March 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

How many homes in Wiltshire are at risk of flooding?

Across Wiltshire, the Environment Agency puts 4,537 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1,482 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1,482 postcodes High: 2,093Medium: 2,444Low: 6,347Very low: 185

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 Wiltshire the Environment Agency counts 5,934 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water (2% of all its properties), 5,000 at medium risk (1.7%) and 14,892 at low risk (5%). 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

Postcode districts with postcodes in Wiltshire

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

Its postcode areas

BA postcode area: Bath, postcodes in use here:3,788 of 15,524GL postcode area: Gloucester, postcodes in use here:17 of 21,671RG postcode area: Reading, postcodes in use here:39 of 23,816SN postcode area: Swindon, postcodes in use here:8,381 of 14,710SO postcode area: Southampton, postcodes in use here:2 of 18,624SP postcode area: Salisbury, postcodes in use here:4,868 of 8,753

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

Towns and villages

SalisburyTrowbridgeChippenhamDevizesCalneWarminsterMelkshamWestburyRoyal Wootton BassettAmesburyCorshamBradford-on-AvonMarlboroughTidworthDurrington and BulfordMalmesburyLudgershallBowerhillWiltonPewseyMereCrickladeOld SarumTisbury

The 24 with the most postcodes in Wiltshire, of 40. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Wiltshire?

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

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What Wiltshire 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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