EH6 postcode district: Edinburgh and around

EH6 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 1,017 postcodes in use in 6 sectors. It has postcodes in Edinburgh. Its council is City of Edinburgh.

Postcodes in use: 1,017
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 EH6, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 26
Some can get gigabit: 169
Every home and business can get gigabit: 808
Ofcom gives no figure: 14
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 1,017 postcodes in EH6 that ONS places, 26 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 169 have some that can, 808 can all get it and 14 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 55.9725, longitude -3.1751. 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.

EH6 4NG EH6 5FY EH6 5FZ EH6 5PJ EH6 5QQ EH6 6AF EH6 6DT EH6 6ER EH6 6LJ EH6 6LL EH6 6LN EH6 6LW

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. EH6 6LJ, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in EH6?

Ofcom reports on 1,003 of the 1,017 postcodes in EH6. At 808 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit808 of 1,003

Postcodes where every home can get superfast977 of 1,003

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