EH42 postcode district: Dunbar and around, East Lothian

EH42 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 373 postcodes in use in 2 sectors. It has postcodes in Dunbar. Its council is East Lothian. ONS gives no location for 11 of its postcodes, and so no council.

Postcodes in use
373
Sectors
2
Council
East Lothian
Places
Dunbar

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

Every postcode in EH42, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in EH42, by gigabit broadband Of the 362 postcodes in EH42 that ONS places, 39 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 46 have some that can, 272 can all get it and 5 have no Ofcom figure. One group of postcodes without gigabit is outlined: 5 postcodes without gigabit. Places named: Dunbar. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. 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gigabitEH42 1SF: no gigabitEH42 1SJ: no gigabitEH42 1SL: no gigabitEH42 1SP: no gigabitEH42 1SR: no gigabitEH42 1SU: no gigabitEH42 1SW: no gigabitEH42 1SY: no gigabitEH42 1SZ: no gigabitEH42 1TA: no gigabitEH42 1TE: no gigabitEH42 1TH: no gigabitEH42 1US: no gigabitEH42 1UX: no gigabitEH42 1UY: no gigabitEH42 1UZ: no gigabitEH42 1XF: no gigabitEH42 1XG: no gigabitEH42 1XN: no gigabitEH42 1XQ: no gigabitEH42 1YW: no gigabit Dunbar 5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined: this goes to EH42 1SP, the one nearest the middle of them5 postcodes without gigabit Map of every postcode in EH42, by gigabit broadband Of the 362 postcodes in EH42 that ONS places, 39 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 46 have some that can, 272 can all get it and 5 have no Ofcom figure. One group of postcodes without gigabit is outlined: 5 postcodes without gigabit. Places named: Dunbar. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. Dunbar 5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined: this goes to EH42 1SP, the one nearest the middle of them5 postcodes without gigabit
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 39
  • Some can get gigabit: 46
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 272
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 5
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 362 postcodes in EH42 that ONS places, 39 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 46 have some that can, 272 can all get it and 5 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 170 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 55.9936, longitude -2.5253. 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

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

EH42 1ADEH42 1BFEH42 1EFEH42 1QHEH42 1QJEH42 1QLEH42 1QNEH42 1QUEH42 1REEH42 1RGEH42 1RJEH42 1RL

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

  • 5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. EH42 1SP, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in EH42?

Ofcom reports on 357 of the 373 postcodes in EH42. At 272 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 8 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit272 of 357
Postcodes where every home can get superfast314 of 357
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband8 of 357

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

Postcodes in EH42

Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.

EH42 1362 postcodesEH42 911 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in EH42

Towns and villages with postcodes in EH42, and how many each has here.

Dunbar postcodes,268

Who covers EH42

How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.

Councils

What council am I in?

Constituencies

  • Lothian East362

Police force areas

  • Scotland362

Next to EH42

EH41 postcode district EH43 postcode district All EH districts Dunbar postcodes

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after EH42 in the EH area.

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