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.

Postcodes in use: 807
Sectors: 4
Council: Fife
Places: 3 places

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

Every postcode in KY1, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 42
In use before 2020: 765
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 807 postcodes in KY1 that ONS places, 42 are new since 2020 and 765 were in use before 2020.

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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. 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; when each came into use: the same directory; 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

The 5 newest postcodes

KY1 2FSJune 2026 KY1 4BZDecember 2025 KY1 3EFNovember 2025 KY1 2FQSeptember 2025 KY1 2FPAugust 2025

Where the new postcodes lie together

22 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. KY1 2FS, is the newest of them.
6 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. KY1 4ET, is the newest 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).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit544 of 795

Postcodes where every home can get superfast696 of 795

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 795

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