Map of AB3 5AX postcode No longer in use

General information

Postcode	AB3 5AX
Nearest station	Kintore (27 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	57.088546
	Longitude	-2.689042
	Easting	358340
	Northing	799939
	Grid reference	NO583999
	UTM reference	30V 518845 6327285
	what3words	massaged.donor.bashed
	FixPhrase	culpable luster submersed unfrozen
	Plus code	9C9V38Q6+C9
	Altitude	115 metres (379 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:51
	Sunset (today)	16:01
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	32.1 KMs (20 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Banchory and Mid Deeside	S13002863
Council Area	Aberdeenshire	S12000034
Constituency (2024)	West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine	S14000111
MP	Andrew Bowie	Conservative
Police force	Scotland
Water company	Scottish Water
NUTS/ITL 3	Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire
NUTS/ITL 2	North Eastern Scotland
NUTS/ITL 1	Scotland
Country	Scotland	S92000003

Data

Date introduced	August 1973
Date usage ended	August 1990
Last updated	September 2025
User type	Small (addresses receive less than 25 items of mail per day)
Quality	Postcode terminated prior to Gridlink initiative - last known ONS postcode grid reference

Demographics

Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	5,174 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Accessible Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00138869
Census output area (2011)	1A2
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Crathes and Torphins - 01	S01006869
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Crathes and Torphins	S02001299
Travel to work area	Aberdeen	S22000047

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