AB42 postcode district: Peterhead and around, Aberdeenshire

AB42 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 1,253 postcodes in use in 7 sectors. It has postcodes in Peterhead and Mintlaw. Its council is Aberdeenshire.

Postcodes in use: 1,253
Sectors: 7
Council: Aberdeenshire
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 AB42, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 41
In use before 2020: 1,212
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 1,253 postcodes in AB42 that ONS places, 41 are new since 2020 and 1,212 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 220 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 57.5013, longitude -1.8936. 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

AB42 1DNJuly 2026 AB42 1UZSeptember 2025 AB42 5JEAugust 2025 AB42 5HXJuly 2025 AB42 2TWJune 2025

Where the new postcodes lie together

10 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. AB42 5JH, is the newest of them.
5 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. AB42 5JE, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in AB42?

Ofcom reports on 1,239 of the 1,253 postcodes in AB42. At 472 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 60 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit472 of 1,239

Postcodes where every home can get superfast921 of 1,239

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband60 of 1,239

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