KY8 postcode district: Leven, Fife and around
KY8 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 989 postcodes in use in 7 sectors. It has postcodes in Leven, Fife, Methil, Buckhaven and 2 more places. 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 KY8, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 13
- In use before 2020: 976
Of the 989 postcodes in KY8 that ONS places, 13 are new since 2020 and 976 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. 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 56.1973, longitude -3.0125. 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
What broadband can you get in KY8?
Ofcom reports on 983 of the 989 postcodes in KY8. At 788 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 5 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 KY8
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Places in KY8
Towns and villages with postcodes in KY8, and how many each has here.
Who covers KY8
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
- Fife989
Constituencies
- North East Fife591
- Glenrothes and Mid Fife398
Police force areas
- Scotland989
Next to KY8
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after KY8 in the KY area.
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