PA38 postcode district: Scotland

PA38 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 33 postcodes in use in 1 sector. It is split between 2 councils: Argyll and Bute (22 postcodes) and Highland (11).

Postcodes in use
33
Sectors
1
Councils
2 councils

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

Every postcode in PA38, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in PA38, by gigabit broadband Of the 33 postcodes in PA38 that ONS places, 8 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 16 have some that can, 8 can all get it and 1 have no Ofcom figure. Places named: Oban North and Lorn, Fort William and Ardnamurchan. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. PA38 4DN: no Ofcom figurePA38 4AB: gigabit for allPA38 4BD: gigabit for allPA38 4BE: gigabit for allPA38 4BF: gigabit for allPA38 4BQ: gigabit for allPA38 4BU: gigabit for allPA38 4BX: gigabit for allPA38 4BZ: gigabit for allPA38 4BA: some gigabitPA38 4BB: some gigabitPA38 4BG: some gigabitPA38 4BJ: some gigabitPA38 4BL: some gigabitPA38 4BN: some gigabitPA38 4BS: some gigabitPA38 4BW: some gigabitPA38 4BY: some gigabitPA38 4DA: some gigabitPA38 4DB: some gigabitPA38 4DD: some gigabitPA38 4DE: some gigabitPA38 4DQ: some gigabitPA38 4DR: some gigabitPA38 4AA: no gigabitPA38 4BH: no gigabitPA38 4BP: no gigabitPA38 4BT: no gigabitPA38 4DF: no gigabitPA38 4DG: no gigabitPA38 4DH: no gigabitPA38 4DL: no gigabit Oban North and LornFort William and Ardnamurchan Map of every postcode in PA38, by gigabit broadband Of the 33 postcodes in PA38 that ONS places, 8 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 16 have some that can, 8 can all get it and 1 have no Ofcom figure. Places named: Oban North and Lorn, Fort William and Ardnamurchan. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. A828 Oban North and LornFort William and Ardnamurchan
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 8
  • Some can get gigabit: 16
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 8
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 1

Of the 33 postcodes in PA38 that ONS places, 8 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 16 have some that can, 8 can all get it and 1 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. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 56.5938, longitude -5.3336. 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

What broadband can you get in PA38?

Ofcom reports on 32 of the 33 postcodes in PA38. At 8 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 gigabit8 of 32
Postcodes where every home can get superfast20 of 32
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband3 of 32

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.

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Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Postcodes in PA38

Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.

UK postcode format explained

Places in PA38

We list no town or village for PA38. A place gets a page here only when enough postcodes are in one: a town or village here is a built-up area named by the Office for National Statistics in England and Wales, or a census locality named by National Records of Scotland. Every PA38 postcode is here, under its sector above.

Who covers PA38

How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.

Councils

What council am I in?

Constituencies

  • Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber33

Police force areas

  • Scotland33

Next to PA38

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after PA38 in the PA area.

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