EH8 postcode district: Edinburgh and around

EH8 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 566 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Edinburgh. Its council is City of Edinburgh.

Postcodes in use: 566
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 EH8, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 47
Some can get gigabit: 157
Every home and business can get gigabit: 346
Ofcom gives no figure: 16
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 566 postcodes in EH8 that ONS places, 47 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 157 have some that can, 346 can all get it and 16 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 55.9488, longitude -3.1644. 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

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

EH8 8AG EH8 8AL EH8 8BJ EH8 8BY EH8 8DU EH8 8DY EH8 8DZ EH8 8FA EH8 8FB EH8 8FD EH8 8FE EH8 8FF

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

23 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. EH8 9UL, is the one nearest the middle of them.
8 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. EH8 9EL, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in EH8?

Ofcom reports on 550 of the 566 postcodes in EH8. At 346 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit346 of 550

Postcodes where every home can get superfast517 of 550

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