PA42 postcode district: Argyll and Bute

PA42 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 58 postcodes in use in 2 sectors. Its council is Argyll and Bute. ONS gives no location for 1 of its postcodes, and so no council.

Postcodes in use
58
Sectors
2
Council
Argyll and Bute
Places
None listed

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

Every postcode in PA42, and which are new since 2020

Map of every postcode in PA42, by new since 2020 Of the 57 postcodes in PA42 that ONS places, 2 are new since 2020 and 55 were in use before 2020. Places named: Kintyre and the Islands. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. PA42 7AH: before 2020PA42 7AJ: before 2020PA42 7AL: before 2020PA42 7AN: before 2020PA42 7AQ: before 2020PA42 7AS: before 2020PA42 7AT: before 2020PA42 7AU: before 2020PA42 7AW: before 2020PA42 7AX: before 2020PA42 7AY: before 2020PA42 7AZ: before 2020PA42 7BA: before 2020PA42 7BD: before 2020PA42 7BE: before 2020PA42 7BF: before 2020PA42 7BG: before 2020PA42 7BH: before 2020PA42 7BL: before 2020PA42 7BN: before 2020PA42 7BP: before 2020PA42 7BQ: before 2020PA42 7BR: before 2020PA42 7BU: before 2020PA42 7BX: before 2020PA42 7BY: before 2020PA42 7BZ: before 2020PA42 7DA: before 2020PA42 7DB: before 2020PA42 7DD: before 2020PA42 7DE: before 2020PA42 7DF: before 2020PA42 7DH: before 2020PA42 7DJ: before 2020PA42 7DS: before 2020PA42 7DU: before 2020PA42 7DW: before 2020PA42 7DX: before 2020PA42 7DY: before 2020PA42 7EA: before 2020PA42 7EB: before 2020PA42 7ED: before 2020PA42 7EF: before 2020PA42 7EG: before 2020PA42 7EH: before 2020PA42 7EJ: before 2020PA42 7EP: before 2020PA42 7AB: new since 2020PA42 7AD: new since 2020 Kintyre and the Islands Map of every postcode in PA42, by new since 2020 Of the 57 postcodes in PA42 that ONS places, 2 are new since 2020 and 55 were in use before 2020. Places named: Kintyre and the Islands. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. Kintyre and the Islands
  • New since 2020: 2
  • In use before 2020: 55

Of the 57 postcodes in PA42 that ONS places, 2 are new since 2020 and 55 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. 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 55.6368, longitude -6.1895. 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 2 newest postcodes

PA42 7ABApril 2020PA42 7ADApril 2020

What broadband can you get in PA42?

Ofcom reports on 56 of the 58 postcodes in PA42. At 2 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 8 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit2 of 56
Postcodes where every home can get superfast39 of 56
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband8 of 56

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 PA42

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

PA42 757 postcodesPA42 91 postcode
UK postcode format explained

Places in PA42

We list no town or village for PA42. 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 PA42 postcode is here, under its sector above.

Who covers PA42

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

Councils

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Constituencies

  • Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber57

Police force areas

  • Scotland57

Next to PA42

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"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after PA42 in the PA area.

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