HU12 postcode district: Hedon and around
HU12 is a postcode district in England, with 779 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Hedon, Keyingham, Thorngumbald and 2 more places. It is split between 2 councils: East Riding of Yorkshire (777 postcodes) and City of Kingston upon Hull (2).
- Postcodes in use
- 779
- Sectors
- 3
- Councils
- 2 councils
- Places
- 5 places
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Every postcode in HU12, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 19
- In use before 2020: 760
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 779 postcodes in HU12 that ONS places, 19 are new since 2020 and 760 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 170 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 53.7248, longitude -0.1282. 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
- 10 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. HU12 8WN, is the newest of them.
What broadband can you get in HU12?
Ofcom reports on 767 of the 779 postcodes in HU12. At 532 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 14 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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
Is HU12 at risk of flooding?
415 of the 779 postcodes in HU12 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 1,099 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What do homes sell for in HU12?
Homes in HU12 sold for a typical £185,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 320 sales, up 1.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £266,500 108 sales
- Semi-detached £171,000 142 sales
- Terraced £138,000 60 sales
- Flat or maisonette £81,000 10 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Postcodes in HU12
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in HU12
Towns and villages with postcodes in HU12, and how many each has here.
Who covers HU12
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
- Beverley and Holderness777
- Kingston upon Hull East2
Police force areas
- Humberside779
Next to HU12
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after HU12 in the HU area.
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