EH12 5 postcode sector in the EH12 district
EH12 5 is a sector of the EH12 district: every postcode that starts EH12 5. It has 223 postcodes in use, 10 of them large-user postcodes. A large-user postcode is one Royal Mail gives to a single address that gets a lot of mail.
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Every postcode in the EH12 5 sector, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 1
- In use before 2020: 222
Of the 223 postcodes in the EH12 5 sector that ONS places, 1 are new since 2020 and 222 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. 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.
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
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This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.
Postcodes in EH12 5
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Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. Postcodes that have ended are not listed. See all our data sources
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