AB53 postcode district: Turriff and around, Aberdeenshire
AB53 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 685 postcodes in use in 5 sectors. It has postcodes in Turriff. Its council is Aberdeenshire.
- Postcodes in use
- 685
- Sectors
- 5
- Council
- Aberdeenshire
- Places
- Turriff
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Every postcode in AB53, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 5
- In use before 2020: 680
Of the 685 postcodes in AB53 that ONS places, 5 are new since 2020 and 680 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. 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 57.5250, longitude -2.3936. 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
What broadband can you get in AB53?
Ofcom reports on 678 of the 685 postcodes in AB53. At 58 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 132 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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 checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Postcodes in AB53
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UK postcode format explainedPlaces in AB53
Towns and villages with postcodes in AB53, and how many each has here.
Who covers AB53
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
What council am I in?Constituencies
- Gordon and Buchan569
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East116
Police force areas
- Scotland685
Next to AB53
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after AB53 in the AB area.
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