KA8 postcode district: Ayr and around

KA8 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 542 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Ayr and Prestwick. Its council is South Ayrshire.

Postcodes in use: 542
Sectors: 3
Council: South Ayrshire
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 KA8, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 51
Some can get gigabit: 79
Every home and business can get gigabit: 401
Ofcom gives no figure: 11
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 542 postcodes in KA8 that ONS places, 51 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 79 have some that can, 401 can all get it and 11 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. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 55.4717, longitude -4.6124. 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

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

KA8 0AD KA8 0AF KA8 0AG KA8 0AJ KA8 0AU KA8 0AW KA8 0BF KA8 0BX KA8 0BZ KA8 0DA KA8 0DB KA8 0DS

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

21 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. KA8 0AJ, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in KA8?

Ofcom reports on 531 of the 542 postcodes in KA8. At 401 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit401 of 531

Postcodes where every home can get superfast519 of 531

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