EH16 postcode district: Edinburgh and around

EH16 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 892 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Edinburgh and Danderhall. It is split between 2 councils: City of Edinburgh (890 postcodes) and Midlothian (2).

Postcodes in use: 892
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 EH16, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 30
Some can get gigabit: 79
Every home and business can get gigabit: 752
Ofcom gives no figure: 31
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 892 postcodes in EH16 that ONS places, 30 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 79 have some that can, 752 can all get it and 31 have no Ofcom figure.

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. 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. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 55.9227, longitude -3.1516. 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; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; 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

Postcodes without gigabit

30 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

EH16 4SG EH16 4SH EH16 4SJ EH16 4SP EH16 4SQ EH16 4SW EH16 4UR EH16 4US EH16 4XF EH16 5AN EH16 5AR EH16 5AT

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

12 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. EH16 5AW, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in EH16?

Ofcom reports on 861 of the 892 postcodes in EH16. At 752 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit752 of 861

Postcodes where every home can get superfast816 of 861

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