Ondo State postal codes begin with 34 or 35. Published codes for the state run from 340101 to 352120, and the Akure head office code follows the national pattern at 340001.
Ondo is in postal region 3 with Edo, Delta and Ekiti. It is one of only two states in Nigeria carrying four separate telephone area codes, which tells you something important about its postal geography too. This is a state of several centres, not one.
Ondo State Postal Code at a Glance
| State capital | Akure |
|---|---|
| Head office code | 340001 (follows the 0001 rule, confirm locally) |
| Code range | 340101 to 352120 |
| Dispatch prefixes | 340, 341, 342, 350, 351, 352 |
| Local Government Areas | 18 |
| Postal region | Region 3 |
| Digits | Six, numeric only |
Reading a Ondo State Code
Take 340001, the Akure head office code. The first digit, 3, puts the address in postal region 3. The first three digits, 340, name the dispatch district that sorts outgoing mail. The last three, 001, are the delivery location, and 001 always means the head office itself.
The same three part structure explains why codes inside one town look almost identical while codes from opposite ends of the state look unrelated. Two houses on the same street usually share all six digits, because they share a delivery round. Two houses in different towns rarely share more than the first three.
Every genuine Ondo State code is built the same way, which gives you a quick test. If someone hands you a code for an address in Ondo State and it does not begin with 34, it is not a Ondo State code.
Dispatch Districts in Ondo State
Six blocks serve Ondo, which is a lot for 18 local governments. The 340 to 342 blocks cover Akure and the Akoko local governments in the north. The 350 to 352 blocks reach Okitipupa, the coastal local governments and the Ondo town area in the south. The state runs a long way from the northern hills to the Atlantic, and the blocks follow that stretch.
| Dispatch prefix | Codes it issues |
|---|---|
| 340 | 340001 to 340999 |
| 341 | 341001 to 341999 |
| 342 | 342001 to 342999 |
| 350 | 350001 to 350999 |
| 351 | 351001 to 351999 |
| 352 | 352001 to 352999 |
The 18 Local Government Areas in Ondo State
Ondo has 18 local government areas. Four of them are the Akoko group in the north, and their tightly packed boundaries are where the published code tables for this state fall apart most visibly.
| Akoko North-East | Akoko North-West | Akoko South-East |
| Akoko South-West | Akure North | Akure South |
| Ese Odo | Idanre | Ifedore |
| Ilaje | Ile Oluji/Okeigbo | Irele |
| Odigbo | Okitipupa | Ondo East |
| Ondo West | Ose | Owo |
What you will not find above is a code beside each name, and that is deliberate. NIPOST issues codes to delivery districts, not to local governments. Tables that pair the two are estimates, which is why published lists for Ondo State contradict each other and sometimes contradict themselves.
Four Area Codes, Four Centres
Akure has 02034, Ikare has 02050, Owo has 02051 and Okitipupa has 02059. Only Kaduna comes close to that spread. Each of those towns anchors a part of the state with its own post office and its own delivery districts, and post moves through the nearest one rather than through the capital.
The practical consequence is that Ondo State is not a useful address on its own. Write the town first, and the code will do the rest of the work.
The Akoko Problem
Akoko North East, Akoko North West, Akoko South East and Akoko South West sit side by side in the north of the state, and the published code ranges for them overlap heavily, with one range covering all four in some tables. That is not a copying error so much as an honest impossibility, because the towns of the Akoko area are close together and share delivery rounds that ignore the local government boundaries.
If you live in Akoko, take your code from the office in Ikare or the nearest town and disregard any table that assigns a neat range to your local government.
The Coast and the Cocoa Belt
Ondo is one of the few states with both an Atlantic coastline and a highland interior. Ilaje and Ese Odo in the south are riverine and coastal, reached partly by water, and post there works the way it does in the Delta creeks: the code identifies the mainland office and the community name completes the journey.
Inland, the cocoa belt around Idanre, Ondo town and Ile Oluji generates agricultural business post, and the Federal University of Technology at Akure adds the usual campus mail pattern of department and campus rather than a district code.
If Your Address Is New or Unlisted
New estates and recently settled areas are where the code system lags hardest. A delivery district is drawn when an area has enough post to justify a round, so a new estate is usually absorbed into the nearest existing district rather than given its own. That means your code is real, but it belongs to the district next door rather than to your street.
Three things help. Use the code your delivery office gives you even if it seems to belong somewhere else, because that is the round your post is on. Put the estate name and the nearest main road in the address, since those carry the item the last kilometre. And keep a phone number on anything that matters, because in Ondo State as everywhere else in Nigeria, the last stage of delivery is a call rather than a code.
Post Office Boxes and Private Mail Bags in Ondo State
A post office box is rented from a named branch, and the branch is what makes the address work. Written properly it is the box number, the branch, then the code and town. A private mail bag works the same way but is issued to an organisation rather than an individual, which is why ministries, universities and large companies publish one instead of a street address.
The layout looks like this:
P.O. Box 1234 Akure Main Post Office 340001 Akure Nigeria
Two practical notes. A box address is often more reliable than a street address in Ondo State, because it removes the guesswork about which delivery district covers you, and it survives you moving house. But couriers who deliver to the door, which is most of them, cannot deliver to a box at all, so keep a street address for anything that arrives by bike.
Codes Published for Ondo State That Cannot Be Right
We compared the Ondo State code tables that circulate online against themselves. A code belongs to one delivery district, so if two local governments are published with ranges that share numbers, at least one of the two is invented. Ondo State fails that test in 3 visible places, and here are the clearest.
Ranges that swallow their neighbours:
- Akoko North-East at 342101 to 342232 overlaps Akoko North-West at 342102 to 342105.
- Akoko North-East at 342101 to 342232 overlaps Akoko South-East at 342106 to 342115.
- Akoko North-East at 342101 to 342232 overlaps Akoko South-West at 342107 to 342117.
None of this means the numbers themselves are fictional. They sit in the correct blocks for Ondo State. What is fictional is the neat range attached to a local government, because that mapping was estimated by whoever first built the table, and every site that copied it inherited the estimate.
It is worth knowing how wrong codes get into circulation in the first place, because the same three routes explain almost every bad table online. The first is interpolation, where somebody knows two real codes and fills the gap between them with a tidy range. The second is inheritance, where one site guesses and forty others copy it, which is why a wrong code can look authoritative through sheer repetition. The third is drift, where a code was right when it was published and the delivery district was later split or merged.
You can check any Ondo State code you are given in two steps. Confirm it starts with one of the dispatch prefixes listed above, which rules out codes belonging to another state entirely. Then confirm the last three digits with the delivery office, which is the only part no table can settle for you.
What Happens to a Letter Posted in Ondo State
Knowing the chain explains why the first three digits matter more than the last three. A letter posted anywhere in Ondo State is collected to the nearest branch, then moved to the dispatch office named by the first three digits of the destination code. Outgoing post leaves the state through the region 3 network, and incoming post arrives the same way in reverse, landing at the dispatch office before it is broken down to the delivery round in the last three digits.
The code earns its keep on registered and tracked items. Ordinary post in Ondo State is forgiving, because a postman who recognises the street will deliver it regardless of the digits. A registered item, an EMS parcel or anything arriving from abroad is handled against the code at each transfer, so a wrong dispatch prefix on those can add days or send the item back.
Get the first three digits wrong and your letter travels to the wrong part of the country before anyone notices. Get the last three wrong and it usually still arrives, a day late, because the delivery office recognises the street. This is why a head office code such as 340001 is a safe fallback and a random six digits is not.
How to Write a Ondo State Address
Ondo addresses must name the town, because Akure, Ondo town, Owo and Okitipupa are all separate postal centres and the state name alone does not narrow anything.
The order NIPOST expects runs from the specific to the general, with the code on the same line as the town:
Mr T. Akinola 23 Oba Adesida Road Akure 340001 Ondo State Nigeria
Two habits worth breaking. Do not put the code on its own line at the bottom the way American addresses do, because Nigerian sorting reads it beside the town name. And do not drop the state, even for a well known city, because several towns share names across states and the state is what disambiguates them.
Neighbouring Codes in Region 3
Ondo State shares its postal region with the states below. If a code you have been given starts with one of their prefixes, the address is not in Ondo State.
| State | Prefix |
|---|---|
| Edo | 300 |
| Delta | 320 |
| Ekiti | 360 |
Finding the Code for Your Street
- The only authoritative answer comes from the post office that delivers to you. Call the branch, give the street name, and ask which delivery district it falls under.
- Search the NIPOST postcode finder by address rather than by local government.
- Where the delivery is informal anyway, use 340001, the Akure head office code, which routes correctly across the state.
What to Enter on a Form
Type 340001 if you are in or near Akure and do not know your district code. Six digits, no spaces. Avoid 23401 and 00000, which are not NIPOST codes and mean nothing to a sorting office even though most websites accept them.
If a foreign site rejects the code because it wants five digits, that is a validation fault on their end rather than a problem with your address. Enter the six digits wherever the form allows it, and never invent a shorter code for anything a bank, an embassy or a courier will check.
The New Code Coming in October
NIPOST switches the country to an 11 character alphanumeric postcode on 1 October 2026, built down five levels from state to individual building. The Akoko local governments and the coastal communities are the two places in Ondo where a building level code changes the most.
Quick Facts
- Ondo State head office code: 340001
- Range: 340101 to 352120
- Dispatch prefixes: 340, 341, 342, 350, 351, 352
- Local Government Areas: 18
- Capital: Akure
- New alphanumeric postcode: 1 October 2026
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the zip code for Akure?
The Akure head office code follows the national pattern at 340001. Published state codes run from 340101 to 352120.
Why do the Akoko local governments share codes?
Because they are four small units covering towns that share delivery rounds. No honest table can split codes between them, so published ranges overlap or repeat.
How many telephone area codes does Ondo have?
Four: 02034 for Akure, 02050 for Ikare, 02051 for Owo and 02059 for Okitipupa. These are telephone codes and separate from postal codes.
What is the postal code for Okitipupa?
Okitipupa is served from the southern block group and anchors the coastal local governments. Confirm the district code at its office.
How does post reach Ilaje and Ese Odo?
Through the nearest mainland office, with the last stage arranged locally. Name the community and include a phone number.
How many local governments does Ondo have?
Eighteen, including the four Akoko units in the north and the two coastal ones in the south.
Is Ondo town the same as Ondo State?
No. Ondo town is a city within the state and has its own delivery districts. Writing only Ondo State on an address leaves out the information that matters.
What should I put on a form for an Ondo address?
Use 340001 if you are near Akure, or the head office code of the nearest of the four centres, and always name the town in the written address.
Summary
Ondo codes begin with 34 or 35 and run from 340101 to 352120 across six blocks. Akure is the capital, but Ikare, Owo and Okitipupa each anchor their own part of the state, which is why Ondo carries four telephone area codes. Eighteen local governments include the four Akoko units whose published code ranges cannot all be right.
Conclusion
Name the town in every Ondo address. Use the Akure head office code on forms, take your real code from the nearest of the four centres, and treat Akoko local government codes as estimates rather than assignments.