EH2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

196 of the district's 799 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 55.95235, -3.20207, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in EH2

Companies House lists 12,822 companies with a registered office in EH2; 10,975 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for EH2

• Edinburgh
• City of Edinburgh
• Scotland

Roads filed under EH2

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Alva Street
• Castle Street
• Charlotte Square
• Frederick Street
• Gabriel's Road
• George Street
• Glenfinlas Street
• Hanover Street
• Hill Street
• Hill Street North Lane
• Hill Street South Lane
• Hope Street
• Hope Street Lane
• Meuse Lane
• North Castle Street
• North Charlotte Street
• North Clyde Street Lane
• North St Andrew Lane
• North St Andrew Street
• North St David Street
• Princes Street
• Queensferry Street Lane
• Queen Street
• Register Place
• Rose Street
• Rose Street North Lane
• Rose Street South Lane
• Shandwick Place
• South Charlotte Street
• South St Andrew Street
• South St David Street
• St Andrew Square
• The Mound
• Thistle Street
• Thistle Street North East Lane
• Thistle Street North West Lane
• Thistle Street South East Lane
• Thistle Street South West Lane
• Waverley Steps
• West Register Street
• West Register Street Lane
• Young Street
• Young Street North Lane
• Young Street South Lane

Check an address in EH2

Check an address in EH2

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=EH2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about EH2

What does an EH2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EH2 district of the EH (Edinburgh) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Edinburgh. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 196 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest EH2

• EH30.3 km
• EH10.6 km
• EH82.4 km
• EH92.4 km
• EH72.5 km
• EH62.8 km
• EH52.9 km
• EH103.7 km
• EH113.8 km
• EH43.9 km
• EH164.6 km
• EH125.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids