AB23 postcode district: Aberdeen and around

AB23 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 344 postcodes in use in 2 sectors. It has postcodes in Aberdeen and Balmedie. It is split between 2 councils: Aberdeen City (212 postcodes) and Aberdeenshire (132).

Postcodes in use: 344
Sectors: 2
Councils: 2 councils
Places: 2 places

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

Every postcode in AB23, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 34
In use before 2020: 310
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 344 postcodes in AB23 that ONS places, 34 are new since 2020 and 310 were in use before 2020.

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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 190 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 57.2121, longitude -2.0887. 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; when each came into use: the same directory; 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

The 5 newest postcodes

AB23 8DHMarch 2026 AB23 8GRJanuary 2026 AB23 8DGDecember 2025 AB23 9BWOctober 2025 AB23 8SNAugust 2025

Where the new postcodes lie together

17 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. AB23 8SN, is the newest of them.
6 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. AB23 8GR, is the newest of them.
5 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. AB23 9BW, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in AB23?

Ofcom reports on 335 of the 344 postcodes in AB23. At 196 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 5 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit196 of 335

Postcodes where every home can get superfast303 of 335

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband5 of 335

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