AB12 postcode district: Aberdeen and around

AB12 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 794 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Aberdeen, Cove Bay and Portlethen. It is split between 2 councils: Aberdeen City (549 postcodes) and Aberdeenshire (245).

Postcodes in use: 794
Sectors: 4
Councils: 2 councils
Places: 3 places

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

Every postcode in AB12, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 62
Some can get gigabit: 84
Every home and business can get gigabit: 568
Ofcom gives no figure: 80
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 794 postcodes in AB12 that ONS places, 62 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 84 have some that can, 568 can all get it and 80 have no Ofcom figure.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 170 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 57.1018, longitude -2.1134. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Postcodes without gigabit

62 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

AB12 3FH AB12 3HA AB12 3LD AB12 3LL AB12 3NP AB12 3RL AB12 3RN AB12 3RP AB12 3RR AB12 3RS AB12 3RT AB12 3TB

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

8 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. AB12 3RP, is the one nearest the middle of them.
6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. AB12 5GW, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in AB12?

Ofcom reports on 714 of the 794 postcodes in AB12. At 568 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 12 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit568 of 714

Postcodes where every home can get superfast653 of 714

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband12 of 714

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it