FK3 postcode district: Grangemouth and around, Falkirk

FK3 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 458 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Grangemouth and Falkirk. Its council is Falkirk.

Postcodes in use: 458
Sectors: 4
Council: Falkirk
Places: 2 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in FK3, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 54
Some can get gigabit: 54
Every home and business can get gigabit: 331
Ofcom gives no figure: 19
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 458 postcodes in FK3 that ONS places, 54 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 54 have some that can, 331 can all get it and 19 have no Ofcom figure.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 56.0107, longitude -3.7206. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Postcodes without gigabit

54 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

FK3 0EE FK3 0EN FK3 0HH FK3 8AA FK3 8AE FK3 8AG FK3 8AS FK3 8AZ FK3 8BA FK3 8BB FK3 8BD FK3 8BG

4 further out, not drawn

These postcodes lie well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without them to show the rest closer; they are in every count.

FK3 8TQ FK3 8UD FK3 9XD FK3 9XE

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

11 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. FK3 8BA, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in FK3?

Ofcom reports on 439 of the 458 postcodes in FK3. At 331 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 4 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit331 of 439

Postcodes where every home can get superfast397 of 439

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband4 of 439

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it