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, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 11
- In use before 2020: 555
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 566 postcodes in EH8 that ONS places, 11 are new since 2020 and 555 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. 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; 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
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 7 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. EH8 8FZ, is the newest 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.
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 checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Postcodes in EH8
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in EH8
Towns and villages with postcodes in EH8, and how many each has here.
Who covers EH8
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
What council am I in?Constituencies
- Edinburgh East and Musselburgh559
- Edinburgh South7
Police force areas
- Scotland566
Next to EH8
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after EH8 in the EH area.
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