EH55 postcode district: West Calder and around

EH55 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 284 postcodes in use in 1 sector. It has postcodes in West Calder and Polbeth. It is split between 2 councils: West Lothian (272 postcodes) and South Lanarkshire (12).

Postcodes in use: 284
Sectors: 1
Councils: 2 councils
Places: 2 places

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

Every postcode in EH55, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 26
Some can get gigabit: 35
Every home and business can get gigabit: 221
Ofcom gives no figure: 2
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 284 postcodes in EH55 that ONS places, 26 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 35 have some that can, 221 can all get it and 2 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 190 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 55.8468, longitude -3.5751. 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

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

EH55 8BF EH55 8DQ EH55 8EL EH55 8EZ EH55 8FW EH55 8HG EH55 8JW EH55 8NT EH55 8PL EH55 8PN EH55 8PP EH55 8PR

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. EH55 8XD, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in EH55?

Ofcom reports on 282 of the 284 postcodes in EH55. At 221 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 7 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit221 of 282

Postcodes where every home can get superfast252 of 282

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband7 of 282

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