EH5 postcode district: Edinburgh and around

EH5 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 636 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Edinburgh. Its council is City of Edinburgh.

Postcodes in use: 636
Sectors: 3
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 EH5, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 20
Some can get gigabit: 40
Every home and business can get gigabit: 571
Ofcom gives no figure: 5
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 636 postcodes in EH5 that ONS places, 20 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 40 have some that can, 571 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 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 55.9762, longitude -3.2224. 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

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

EH5 1GJ EH5 1GL EH5 1HF EH5 1HX EH5 1PP EH5 1PU EH5 1PZ EH5 1QD EH5 1QF EH5 1QG EH5 1QH EH5 1QJ

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. EH5 1PU, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in EH5?

Ofcom reports on 631 of the 636 postcodes in EH5. At 571 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit571 of 631

Postcodes where every home can get superfast613 of 631

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