PA3 postcode district: Paisley and around, Renfrewshire

PA3 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 689 postcodes in use in 5 sectors. It has postcodes in Paisley, Linwood, Renfrew and 2 more places. Its council is Renfrewshire.

Postcodes in use: 689
Sectors: 5
Council: Renfrewshire
Places: 5 places

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

Every postcode in PA3, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 18
Some can get gigabit: 43
Every home and business can get gigabit: 553
Ofcom gives no figure: 75

Of the 689 postcodes in PA3 that ONS places, 18 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 43 have some that can, 553 can all get it and 75 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. 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 55.8515, longitude -4.4458. 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

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

PA3 1BF PA3 1BH PA3 1RU PA3 2AY PA3 2EF PA3 2EU PA3 2RY PA3 2SG PA3 2SJ PA3 2SS PA3 2ST PA3 2SX

3 further out, not drawn

These postcodes lie well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without them to show the rest closer; they are in every count.

PA3 2EF PA3 2RY PA3 4JA

What broadband can you get in PA3?

Ofcom reports on 614 of the 689 postcodes in PA3. At 553 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit553 of 614

Postcodes where every home can get superfast591 of 614

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