EH12 postcode district: Edinburgh and around

EH12 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 1,232 postcodes in use in 7 sectors. It has postcodes in Edinburgh and Newbridge and Ratho Station. Its council is City of Edinburgh.

Postcodes in use: 1,232
Sectors: 7
Council: City of Edinburgh
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 EH12, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 98
In use before 2020: 1,134
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 1,232 postcodes in EH12 that ONS places, 98 are new since 2020 and 1,134 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 150 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 55.9422, longitude -3.2813. 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

EH12 0ETJuly 2026 EH12 0DPJune 2026 EH12 1RTJune 2026 EH12 9NDMay 2026 EH12 1SDApril 2026

Where the new postcodes lie together

66 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. EH12 0ET, is the newest of them.
16 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. EH12 1RT, is the newest of them.
5 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. EH12 7FH, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in EH12?

Ofcom reports on 1,152 of the 1,232 postcodes in EH12. At 1,001 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 gigabit1,001 of 1,152

Postcodes where every home can get superfast1,083 of 1,152

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband5 of 1,152

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