The typical property in AB21
Dyce and Bucksburn, the airport and energy-services corridor along the A96, where most of Aberdeen's offshore industry sits between estates of executive housing.
Area summary
AB21 contains Aberdeen Airport, the Dyce industrial and business district, Bridge of Don's eastern fringe, Bucksburn and Stoneywood. It is the geographic centre of Aberdeen's offshore-energy supply chain: most of the helicopter-operations bases, several of the larger oilfield-services firms and the Aberdeen International Business Park sit within or immediately adjacent to the postcode.
Housing splits in two. Around Dyce village and Stoneywood the stock is a mix of granite cottages, 1980s and 1990s estate housing, and apartment blocks. Around Bucksburn the housing is a mix of former-council post-war stock and newer 2000s family estates. The Newhills development on the western edge has been the largest single new-build site in the area over the past decade.
Demand is anchored by airport and oilfield-services employment and by the convenience of the AWPR Stonehaven junction connecting Aberdeen to the south. The Dyce-Aberdeen rail link provides commuter access to the city centre in under 10 minutes.
The Trump International Golf Links lies just outside the postcode boundary to the north on the Menie Estate but is closer to AB21 than to any other Aberdeen postcode.
What the data shows
Researched facts
- Aberdeen International Airport handled around 2.27 million passengers in 2024, anchoring a substantial offshore-helicopter operations cluster that sits within AB21., source
- Dyce station, opened in 1861 and now on ScotRail's Aberdeen-Inverurie commuter service, provides direct trains into Aberdeen station in approximately 8 minutes., source
- Bridge of Don and Dyce sit within Aberdeen's adopted Local Development Plan as designated employment zones with specific land-use protections for the offshore energy supply chain., source
Buyer notes
- Properties along the airport approach corridor can experience helicopter and fixed-wing noise; check the Civil Aviation Authority noise contours before assuming quiet.
- The energy-services employment base in AB21 is exposed to commodity-price cycles; rental and capital values in the postcode have historically moved more sharply with oil price than other parts of the city.
- The AWPR's Goval junction has materially improved AB21 commute times in both directions; this remains a recent (post-2019) feature that older comparables won't reflect.
The full AB21 data page
Sold price history, crime totals, EPC distribution, council tax bands and more, pulled live from HM Land Registry, Police UK and the EPC Register.
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