EH3 postcode district: Edinburgh and around

EH3 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 748 postcodes in use in 6 sectors. It has postcodes in Edinburgh. Its council is City of Edinburgh.

Postcodes in use: 748
Sectors: 6
Council: City of Edinburgh
Places: Edinburgh

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in EH3, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 37
Some can get gigabit: 213
Every home and business can get gigabit: 426
Ofcom gives no figure: 72
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 748 postcodes in EH3 that ONS places, 37 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 213 have some that can, 426 can all get it and 72 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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 55.9519, longitude -3.2068. 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

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

EH3 5AP EH3 5BT EH3 5DB EH3 5EW EH3 5LR EH3 5QL EH3 6AD EH3 6HF EH3 6TQ EH3 6TR EH3 6TS EH3 6TT

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

9 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. EH3 8FQ, is the one nearest the middle of them.
6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. EH3 6TT, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in EH3?

Ofcom reports on 676 of the 748 postcodes in EH3. At 426 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit426 of 676

Postcodes where every home can get superfast606 of 676

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