DD8 postcode district: Forfar and around, Angus

DD8 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 1,218 postcodes in use in 7 sectors. It has postcodes in Forfar and Kirriemuir. Its council is Angus.

Postcodes in use: 1,218
Sectors: 7
Council: Angus
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 DD8, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 20
In use before 2020: 1,198
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 1,218 postcodes in DD8 that ONS places, 20 are new since 2020 and 1,198 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 210 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 56.6559, longitude -2.9224. 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

DD8 0BAFebruary 2026 DD8 9ALFebruary 2026 DD8 2FDDecember 2025 DD8 9AJDecember 2025 DD8 4AFAugust 2025

Where the new postcodes lie together

6 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. DD8 1FF, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in DD8?

Ofcom reports on 1,162 of the 1,218 postcodes in DD8. At 497 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 67 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit497 of 1,162

Postcodes where every home can get superfast776 of 1,162

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband67 of 1,162

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