Worcestershire County Council

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

Worcestershire County Council is the county council for Worcestershire. It runs schools, roads, social care and libraries. Bins, council tax and planning are run by its 6 district councils. ONS places 17,108 postcodes in use in Worcestershire, in 48 postcode districts across 8 postcode areas.

84% of homes and businesses in Worcestershire can get gigabit broadband, Ofcom says. The Environment Agency puts 7,239 homes and businesses in Worcestershire in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.

Its own pages listed
9
Postcodes in use
17,108
Postcode districts
48
District councils
6

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

Its website

Worcestershire County Council

worcestershire.gov.uk

Name and website as GOV.UK gives them.

Do it on Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire County Council. GOV.UK lists 11. When we opened them on 14 October 2026, 2 pages had gone (missing, or moved to a page about something else). 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 Worcestershire?

Across Worcestershire, 84% of homes and businesses can get gigabit broadband and 77% full fibre, Ofcom says.

Full fibre77% 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 Worcestershire are at risk of flooding?

Across Worcestershire, the Environment Agency puts 7,239 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1,214 postcodes with any property at risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1,214 postcodes High: 4,676Medium: 2,563Low: 4,868Very low: 300

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 Worcestershire the Environment Agency counts 8,605 properties at high risk of flooding from surface water, 8,469 at medium risk and 26,341 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 Worcestershire

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

Bromsgrove council, postcodes in use:2,897Malvern Hills council, postcodes in use:2,755Redditch council, postcodes in use:1,658Worcester council, postcodes in use:2,552Wychavon council, postcodes in use:3,926Wyre Forest council, postcodes in use:3,320

Postcode districts with postcodes in Worcestershire

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:4,391 of 41,844CV postcode area: Coventry, postcodes in use here:53 of 21,267DY postcode area: Dudley, postcodes in use here:3,577 of 11,102GL postcode area: Gloucester, postcodes in use here:236 of 21,671HR postcode area: Hereford, postcodes in use here:9 of 6,561SY postcode area: Shrewsbury, postcodes in use here:1 of 14,641WR postcode area: Worcester, postcodes in use here:8,513 of 9,020WV postcode area: Wolverhampton, postcodes in use here:328 of 10,650

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

Towns and villages

WorcesterRedditchKidderminsterGreat MalvernBromsgroveEveshamDroitwich SpaStourport-on-SevernPershoreBewdleyCatshillBirminghamHagleyHollywoodBarnt GreenFernhill HeathUpton upon SevernTenbury WellsAlvechurchKempseyBroadwayAstwood BankStoke PriorCallow Hill

The 24 with the most postcodes in Worcestershire, of 31. Browse places A to Z.

Is an address in Worcestershire?

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

All councils, A to Z

What Worcestershire 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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