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, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 63
In use before 2020: 685
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 748 postcodes in EH3 that ONS places, 63 are new since 2020 and 685 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 55.9519, 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; 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

EH3 9FSJuly 2026 EH3 9FYApril 2026 EH3 9FZJanuary 2026 EH3 1FYNovember 2025 EH3 1HJNovember 2025

Where the new postcodes lie together

31 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. EH3 1FY, is the newest of them.
11 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. EH3 9FS, is the newest of them.
10 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. EH3 8GA, is the newest 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