KY5 postcode district: Lochgelly and around

KY5 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 500 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Lochgelly, Ballingry, Cardenden and Auchterderran and 1 more place. It is split between 2 councils: Fife (495 postcodes) and Perth and Kinross (2). ONS gives no location for 3 of its postcodes, and so no council.

Postcodes in use: 500
Sectors: 4
Councils: 2 councils
Places: 4 places

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

Every postcode in KY5, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 75
Some can get gigabit: 61
Every home and business can get gigabit: 355
Ofcom gives no figure: 6
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 497 postcodes in KY5 that ONS places, 75 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 61 have some that can, 355 can all get it and 6 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 56.1459, longitude -3.2933. 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

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

KY5 0AE KY5 0AG KY5 0AJ KY5 0AQ KY5 0AU KY5 0AX KY5 0BQ KY5 0DU KY5 0DW KY5 0DX KY5 0DY KY5 0DZ

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

24 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. KY5 0XR, is the one nearest the middle of them.
8 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. KY5 0DY, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in KY5?

Ofcom reports on 491 of the 500 postcodes in KY5. At 355 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit355 of 491

Postcodes where every home can get superfast461 of 491

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband2 of 491

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