Enter a full or partial UK postcode below to search...
Are you planning to move to a new location? Maybe you're just curious? Either way you can use this site to search
for active UK postcodes and for each postcode you'll find useful data on the following things:
Other nearby postcodes
Nearby road names
Nearby schools, their OFSTEAD ratings, last inspection date and approximate distance from the entered postcode
Food Standards Agency ratings for restaurants, takeaways, pubs, cafes and other business near to a postcode
along with their most recent inspection date
Travel links near to a postcode - bus stops, taxi ranks, train stations and airports with their approximate
distance
Nearby OS (Ordnance Survey) place names for sites of interest such as woodlands, hills, valleys, beaches and
more
How deprived an area is comparable to the whole of the UK - using the 2011 UK census index of deprivation
measure
The percentage of availability, users and speeds of Broadband in a postcode area, including average download and
upload speeds
How much energy (gas and electricity) a postcode uses in comparison to the whole of the UK
When a postcode was introduced, is it still active? When was it terminated?
The 2011 Census statistics regions into which a postcode falls
British National Grid (BNG) and latitude and longitude co-ordinates for a postcode
We also have a few useful resources that might interest you, such as this page on UK postcode statistics that details exactly how many active postcodes
there currently are in the whole of the UK, in each country of the UK and in also each postcode area of the UK.
How Many Postcodes Are There In the UK?
Active UK Postcodes
1,785,448
England
1,472,443
Scotland
159,608
Wales
91,785
Northern Ireland
48,783
Channel Islands
6,677
Isle of Man
4,641
If you're wondering just how 'fresh' the data on our site is and what some of the fields mean, take a look here - How fresh is our data?
Want to know a little more on how UK postcodes work? What do the parts of a postcode mean? Find out in how postcodes work.