Map of EH17 8BG postcode

General information

Postcode	EH17 8BG
Post Town	Edinburgh
Nearest station	Eskbank (4 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Roads in this postcode	Gilmerton Station Road
Number of UPRNs	11 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	55.897316
	Longitude	-3.135753
	Easting	329076
	Northing	667716
	Grid reference	NT290677
	UTM reference	30U 491510 6194659
	what3words	ruins.crops.heads
	FixPhrase	cryptic lure suspend twistable
	Plus code	9C7RVVW7+WM
	Altitude	120 metres (393 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:28
	Sunset (today)	16:26
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	6.9 KMs (4.3 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Liberton/Gilmerton	S13002934
Council Area	City of Edinburgh	S12000036
Constituency (2024)	Edinburgh South	S14000080
MP	Ian Murray	Labour
Police force	Scotland
Water company	Scottish Water
NUTS/ITL 3	City of Edinburgh
NUTS/ITL 2	East Central Scotland
NUTS/ITL 1	Scotland
Country	Scotland	S92000003

Data

Date introduced	November 2020
Last updated	September 2025
User type	Small (addresses receive less than 25 items of mail per day)
Quality	Within the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean

Demographics

Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	4,517 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Large Urban Areas
Rural/urban (2011)	Accessible rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00145505
Census output area (2011)	1B2
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Gilmerton South and the Murrays - 03	S01008549
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Gilmerton South and the Murrays	S02001600
Travel to work area	Edinburgh	S22000059

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