PE1 postcode district: Peterborough and around

PE1 is a postcode district in England, with 1,174 postcodes in use in 6 sectors. It has postcodes in Peterborough. Its council is Peterborough.

Postcodes in use: 1,174
Sectors: 6
Council: Peterborough
Places: Peterborough

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in PE1, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 57
In use before 2020: 1,117
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 1,174 postcodes in PE1 that ONS places, 57 are new since 2020 and 1,117 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.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.5861, longitude -0.2370. 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

PE1 9DQJuly 2026 PE1 9DAApril 2026 PE1 9RUMarch 2026 PE1 9DNJanuary 2026 PE1 9DLNovember 2025

Where the new postcodes lie together

29 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. PE1 9DQ, is the newest of them.
11 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. PE1 1WT, is the newest of them.
5 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. PE1 5GH, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in PE1?

Ofcom reports on 1,071 of the 1,174 postcodes in PE1. At 921 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit921 of 1,071

Postcodes where every home can get superfast1,045 of 1,071

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

Is PE1 at risk of flooding?

90 of the 1,174 postcodes in PE1 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 358 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 90 of 1,174 postcodes High: 189Medium: 169Low: 289Very low: 774

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 PE1?

Homes in PE1 sold for a typical £205,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 268 sales, no change on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£205,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£205,000 12 months to August 2025

■ no change on the 12 months before

Detached £270,000 48 sales
Semi-detached £220,000 105 sales
Terraced £170,000 85 sales
Flat or maisonette £122,500 30 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