What does an EH95 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the EH95 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 6 live postcodes.

EH95 postcode district

EH95, in the EH (Edinburgh) postcode area, has 6 live postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files no road under it.

postcode area	EH (Edinburgh)
live postcodes	6
sectors	1
roads listed	0
centroid	55.97861, -3.25352
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

6 of the district's 6 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 55.97861, -3.25352, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
EH95 1	6	0

Places OS Open Names lists for EH95

Edinburgh
City of Edinburgh
Scotland

Roads filed under EH95

OS Open Names files no road under EH95, so a street here cannot be confirmed from the register and the lookup answers about the postcode alone.

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Common questions about EH95

What does an EH95 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the EH95 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 6 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 EH95

EH41.9 km
EH52.0 km
EH34.2 km
EH24.3 km
EH124.4 km
EH14.9 km
EH64.9 km
EH115.1 km
EH75.9 km
EH86.5 km
EH96.6 km
EH107.1 km
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