KY1 postcode district: Kirkcaldy and Dysart and around, Fife
KY1 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 807 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Kirkcaldy and Dysart, East Wemyss and Glenrothes. Its council is Fife.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Every postcode in KY1, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 58
- Some can get gigabit: 193
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 544
- Ofcom gives no figure: 12
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together
Of the 807 postcodes in KY1 that ONS places, 58 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 193 have some that can, 544 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 160 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 56.1295, longitude -3.1367. 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
58 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.
Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together
- 11 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. KY1 1LJ, is the one nearest the middle of them.
What broadband can you get in KY1?
Ofcom reports on 795 of the 807 postcodes in KY1. At 544 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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 checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Postcodes in KY1
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in KY1
Towns and villages with postcodes in KY1, and how many each has here.
Who covers KY1
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
- Fife807
Constituencies
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy618
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife189
Police force areas
- Scotland807
Next to KY1
"Next to" is by number: the district after KY1 in the KY area.
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