ML7 postcode district: Shotts and around

ML7 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 414 postcodes in use in 3 sectors. It has postcodes in Shotts and Harthill, North Lanarkshire. It is split between 2 councils: North Lanarkshire (394 postcodes) and West Lothian (20).

Postcodes in use: 414
Sectors: 3
Councils: 2 councils
Places: 2 places

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

Every postcode in ML7, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 12
In use before 2020: 402
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 414 postcodes in ML7 that ONS places, 12 are new since 2020 and 402 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 55.8298, longitude -3.7948. 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

ML7 9AEFebruary 2024 ML7 5FLDecember 2023 ML7 5FPNovember 2023 ML7 5FNSeptember 2023 ML7 5FQOctober 2022

Where the new postcodes lie together

7 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. ML7 5FL, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in ML7?

Ofcom reports on 412 of the 414 postcodes in ML7. At 340 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 5 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit340 of 412

Postcodes where every home can get superfast381 of 412

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband5 of 412

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