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EH6 8HW is located in the Leith electoral ward, within the council area of City of Edinburgh and the Scottish Parliamentary constituency of Edinburgh North and Leith. The Community Health Partnership is Edinburgh Community Health Partnership and the police force is Scotland. This postcode has been in use since January 1980.

Where is EH6 8HW?

Country	Scotland
Postcode District	EH6

Politics

Ward	Leith
Constituency	Edinburgh North And Leith

Transport

Nearest bus stops to EH6 8HW

Duncan Place (Duke Street)	Leith	39m
Duke Place (Duncan Place)	Leith	64m
Lochend Road (East Hermitage Place)	Leith Links	114m
Academy Street (Duke Street)	Leith	116m
Burns Street (Lochend Road)	Lochend	138m

Nearest underground/metro/tram to EH6 8HW

York Place (Edinburgh Trams) (York Place)

Edinburgh

1,931m

Nearest railway stations to EH6 8HW

Edinburgh Station	2.3km
Haymarket Station	4.1km
Brunstane Station	5.1km

Broadband

Broadband access in EH6 8HW (2020 data)

Percentage of properties with Next Generation Access	100.0%
Percentage of properties with Superfast Broadband	100.0%
Percentage of properties with Ultrafast Broadband	88.9%
Percentage of properties with Full Fibre Broadband	88.9%

Superfast Broadband is between 30Mbps and 300Mbps
Ultrafast Broadband is > 300Mbps

Broadband speed in EH6 8HW (2019 data)

Download

Median download speed	19.8Mbps
Average download speed	26.0Mbps
Maximum download speed	70.05Mbps

Upload

Median upload speed	1.2Mbps
Average upload speed	3.4Mbps
Maximum upload speed	17.37Mbps

Broadband limitations in EH6 8HW (2020 data)

Percentage of properties unable to receive 2Mbps	0.0%
Percentage of properties unable to receive 5Mbps	0.0%
Percentage of properties unable to receive 10Mbps	0.0%
Percentage of properties unable to receive 30Mbps	0.0%

EH6 8HW gas and electricity consumption

Estimated total energy consumption in EH6 8HW by fuel type, 2015.

Gas

Consumption (kWh)	240,668
Meter count	17
Mean (kWh/meter)	14,157
Median (kWh/meter)	19,962

Electricity

Consumption (kWh)	34,982
Meter count	24
Mean (kWh/meter)	1,458
Median (kWh/meter)	2,243

• Consumption: The estimated total energy consumption, in kWh, across all meters in EH6 8HW, for 2015.
• Meter count: The total number of meters in EH6 8HW.
• Mean: The mean average consumption per meter, in kWh.
• Median: The median average consumption per meter, in kWh.

Deprivation

62.5% of Scottish postcodes are less deprived than EH6 8HW:

Food Standards Agency

Three nearest food hygiene information scheme ratings to EH6 8HW (metres)

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Nearest post box to EH6 8HW

	Last Collection
Location	Mon-Fri	Sat	Distance
Halmyre Street	17:45	12:15	258m
Central Station	17:45	12:15	264m
5 St Clair Avenue	17:45	12:15	437m

EH6 8HW ITL and EH6 8HW LAU

The below table lists the International Territorial Level (ITL) codes (formerly Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) codes) and Local Administrative Units (LAU) codes for EH6 8HW:

ITL 1 Code	Name
TLM	Scotland
ITL 2 Code	Name
TLM7	Eastern Scotland
ITL 3 Code	Name
TLM75	City of Edinburgh
LAU 1 Code	Name
S30000008	City of Edinburgh

EH6 8HW census areas

The below table lists the Census Output Area (OA), Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA), and Middle Layer Super Output Area (MSOA) for EH6 8HW:

	Code	Name
OA	S00104271
LSOA	S01008792	South Leith - 01
MSOA	S02001644	South Leith