Fifty-four municipalities, two electric companies plus two boroughs that are their own, two gas territories, a patchwork of water authorities, and three different ways trash gets picked up. Here is who provides what — and the official lookups that confirm it at the property line.
Trash & recycling records compiled from municipal, county, and hauler sources — last verified May 2026. Confirm current schedules with your municipality or hauler; household hazardous waste routes through the county HHW program.
Bucks County utilities follow territory lines that ignore town reputations — the same township can hold PECO and PPL addresses, public-water streets and well-water roads. The summaries below are the county-level picture; the linked lookups give the answer at the address.
PECO covers most Bucks County addresses; PPL Electric Utilities serves parts of Upper and northwest Bucks. Quakertown and Perkasie boroughs run their own municipal electric departments — inside those borough lines, the borough is the utility.
PECO holds the gas territory across most of the county. UGI serves the Upper Bucks cluster — Quakertown, Perkasie, Sellersville, Richlandtown, Riegelsville, Silverdale, Trumbauersville and surrounding townships. Territory is not mains: many rural roads heat with propane or oil.
The Bucks County Water & Sewer Authority serves about two dozen municipalities; Aqua Pennsylvania serves a county roster including Bensalem, Bristol, Chalfont, New Britain, and Solebury; several boroughs run their own systems — and much of the rural county is on wells and septic.
Wireline options in most of Bucks County come from the major regional cable and fiber providers, but availability and speeds change block by block. The FCC's National Broadband Map is the official address-level record of who claims to serve a property.
Towns where the utility picture has verified specifics worth knowing before you offer — the municipal-electric boroughs, the UGI gas cluster, the Aqua water roster, and the well-and-septic countryside. Each note lives on the town's profile with its sources. Every town page also carries the trash & recycling record for that municipality.
PECO serves most of Bucks County, PPL Electric Utilities serves parts of Upper and northwest Bucks, and two boroughs — Quakertown and Perkasie — run their own municipal electric departments and bill residents directly. The provider is set by the address: the PA PUC's PA Power Switch site identifies the utility for any location.
It depends on the municipality. Most Bucks County townships are open-market — residents hire their own licensed hauler. A group of boroughs and Lower Bucks townships contract a single hauler for everyone, and Perkasie Borough is the only municipality that collects trash with its own crews. The lookup on this page shows the arrangement, schedule guidance, and hauler options for all 54 municipalities.
Much of the county has gas mains, split between two utilities: PECO serves most of Bucks, while UGI holds the territory across Upper Bucks boroughs and townships (the Quakertown–Perkasie–Sellersville area and surrounding rural townships). Territory does not guarantee mains at a given street — rural roads often rely on propane or oil heat. UGI publishes an address-level gas availability tool.
There is no single answer — water and sewer are the most municipal of Bucks County utilities. The Bucks County Water & Sewer Authority serves roughly two dozen municipalities, Aqua Pennsylvania serves a roster of boroughs and townships, several boroughs run their own systems, and much of rural Upper and Central Bucks is on private wells and septic. Confirm the arrangement for a specific property with the municipal office before settlement.
Use the FCC's National Broadband Map — enter the address to see every provider and technology reported to serve it. In most of Bucks County the wireline choices are cable and fiber from the major regional providers, but coverage and speeds change block by block, so check the address rather than the town.
Facts on this page were last verified against the cited sources on July 23, 2026. Territories: BCEDC utilities overview. Electric lookup: PA Power Switch. Water: BCWSA and the county supplier roster. Broadband: FCC National Broadband Map.
A hauler contract here, a municipal electric bill there, a well test on the rural roads — utilities are small line items that change the monthly math. Check the town's record, then confirm at the address.
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