HU6 postcode district: Kingston upon Hull and around
HU6 is a postcode district in England, with 660 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Kingston upon Hull. It is split between 2 councils: City of Kingston upon Hull (618 postcodes) and East Riding of Yorkshire (42).
- Postcodes in use
- 660
- Sectors
- 4
- Councils
- 2 councils
- Places
- Kingston upon Hull
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in HU6, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 0
- Some can get gigabit: 12
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 631
- Ofcom gives no figure: 17
Of the 660 postcodes in HU6 that ONS places, 12 have some that can, 631 can all get it and 17 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. 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 53.7811, longitude -0.3716. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
What broadband can you get in HU6?
Ofcom reports on 643 of the 660 postcodes in HU6. At 631 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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is HU6 at risk of flooding?
656 of the 660 postcodes in HU6 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 3,154 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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
What do homes sell for in HU6?
Homes in HU6 sold for a typical £150,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 235 sales, up 13.4% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £225,000 19 sales
- Semi-detached £155,000 103 sales
- Terraced £125,000 105 sales
- Flat or maisonette £67,750 8 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 October 2026.
Postcodes in HU6
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in HU6
Towns and villages with postcodes in HU6, and how many each has here.
Who covers HU6
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
- Kingston upon Hull North and Cottingham659
- Beverley and Holderness1
Police force areas
- Humberside660
Next to HU6
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after HU6 in the HU area.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.
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