PA16 postcode district: Greenock and around, Inverclyde

PA16 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 781 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Greenock, Inverkip and Gourock. Its council is Inverclyde.

Postcodes in use: 781
Sectors: 4
Council: Inverclyde
Places: 3 places

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

Every postcode in PA16, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 51
Some can get gigabit: 80
Every home and business can get gigabit: 648
Ofcom gives no figure: 2
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 781 postcodes in PA16 that ONS places, 51 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 80 have some that can, 648 can all get it and 2 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 55.9426, longitude -4.8008. 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

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

PA16 0AA PA16 0AB PA16 0AL PA16 0AU PA16 0AW PA16 0BD PA16 0BG PA16 0BJ PA16 0DE PA16 0DH PA16 0DJ PA16 0DL

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PA16 8BQ, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in PA16?

Ofcom reports on 779 of the 781 postcodes in PA16. At 648 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit648 of 779

Postcodes where every home can get superfast751 of 779

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 779

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