ML1 postcode district: Motherwell and around, North Lanarkshire

ML1 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 1,440 postcodes in use in 6 sectors. It has postcodes in Motherwell, Newarthill, Holytown and 5 more places. Its council is North Lanarkshire.

Postcodes in use: 1,440
Sectors: 6
Council: North Lanarkshire
Places: 8 places

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

Every postcode in ML1, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 97
Some can get gigabit: 151
Every home and business can get gigabit: 1,134
Ofcom gives no figure: 58
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 1,440 postcodes in ML1 that ONS places, 97 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 151 have some that can, 1,134 can all get it and 58 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 150 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 55.7993, longitude -3.9748. 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

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

ML1 1AB ML1 1AR ML1 1AZ ML1 1EF ML1 1JE ML1 1JS ML1 1LP ML1 1PF ML1 1PP ML1 1PR ML1 1PU ML1 1PW

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

8 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. ML1 1PF, is the one nearest the middle of them.
6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. ML1 2UD, is the one nearest the middle of them.
5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. ML1 1AZ, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in ML1?

Ofcom reports on 1,382 of the 1,440 postcodes in ML1. At 1,134 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 3 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit1,134 of 1,382

Postcodes where every home can get superfast1,314 of 1,382

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband3 of 1,382

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