G78 postcode district: Barrhead and around

G78 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 709 postcodes in use in 5 sectors. It has postcodes in Barrhead and Neilston. It is split between 5 councils: East Renfrewshire (697 postcodes), East Ayrshire (5), Glasgow City (4) and 2 others.

Postcodes in use: 709
Sectors: 5
Councils: 5 councils
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 G78, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 72
Some can get gigabit: 90
Every home and business can get gigabit: 535
Ofcom gives no figure: 12
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 709 postcodes in G78 that ONS places, 72 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 90 have some that can, 535 can all get it and 12 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 55.7928, longitude -4.4093. 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

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

G78 1BJ G78 1DT G78 1EA G78 1EL G78 1FA G78 1FF G78 1FG G78 1FH G78 1HD G78 1HF G78 1JF G78 1LF

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

8 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. G78 1SY, is the one nearest the middle of them.
6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. G78 4AG, is the one nearest the middle of them.
5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. G78 4AB, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in G78?

Ofcom reports on 697 of the 709 postcodes in G78. At 535 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit535 of 697

Postcodes where every home can get superfast635 of 697

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