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, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 41
In use before 2020: 1,399
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 1,440 postcodes in ML1 that ONS places, 41 are new since 2020 and 1,399 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 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; 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

ML1 5WSJuly 2026 ML1 5GFJune 2026 ML1 5XHJune 2026 ML1 5XJJune 2026 ML1 9FXApril 2026

Where the new postcodes lie together

13 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. ML1 5GF, is the newest of them.
7 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. ML1 5WP, is the newest 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