EH47 postcode district: Whitburn, West Lothian and around

EH47 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 744 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Whitburn, West Lothian, Blackburn, West Lothian, Fauldhouse and 1 more place. It is split between 2 councils: West Lothian (741 postcodes) and North Lanarkshire (3).

Postcodes in use: 744
Sectors: 4
Councils: 2 councils
Places: 4 places

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

Every postcode in EH47, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 17
In use before 2020: 727
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 744 postcodes in EH47 that ONS places, 17 are new since 2020 and 727 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 55.8584, longitude -3.6661. 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

EH47 0FFMay 2026 EH47 8FQMay 2026 EH47 8FWMay 2026 EH47 8FRApril 2026 EH47 8FXOctober 2025

Where the new postcodes lie together

6 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. EH47 8FQ, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in EH47?

Ofcom reports on 734 of the 744 postcodes in EH47. At 630 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 3 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit630 of 734

Postcodes where every home can get superfast704 of 734

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband3 of 734

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