AB56 postcode district: Buckie and around
AB56 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 649 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Buckie and Cullen. It is split between 2 councils: Moray (643 postcodes) and Aberdeenshire (6).
- Postcodes in use
- 649
- Sectors
- 4
- 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 AB56, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 12
- In use before 2020: 637
Of the 649 postcodes in AB56 that ONS places, 12 are new since 2020 and 637 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 57.6743, longitude -2.9293. 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
What broadband can you get in AB56?
Ofcom reports on 637 of the 649 postcodes in AB56. At 322 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 18 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 AB56
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in AB56
Towns and villages with postcodes in AB56, and how many each has here.
Who covers AB56
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
- Aberdeenshire North and Moray East649
Police force areas
- Scotland649
Next to AB56
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after AB56 in the AB area.
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