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, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 27
- In use before 2020: 470
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 497 postcodes in KY5 that ONS places, 27 are new since 2020 and 470 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 56.1459, 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; 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
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 11 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. KY5 0DU, is the newest 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).
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 KY5
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces in KY5
Towns and villages with postcodes in KY5, and how many each has here.
Who covers KY5
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
What council am I in?Constituencies
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife491
- Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy4
- Perth and Kinross-shire2
Police force areas
- Scotland497
Next to KY5
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after KY5 in the KY area.
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