PA48 postcode district: Argyll and Bute

PA48 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 17 postcodes in use in 1 sector. Its council is Argyll and Bute.

Postcodes in use
17
Sectors
1
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 PA48, and which are new since 2020

Map of every postcode in PA48, by new since 2020 Of the 17 postcodes in PA48 that ONS places, 1 are new since 2020 and 16 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 500 m. A847 PA48 7TL: before 2020PA48 7TN: before 2020PA48 7TP: before 2020PA48 7TR: before 2020PA48 7TS: before 2020PA48 7TT: before 2020PA48 7TU: before 2020PA48 7TW: before 2020PA48 7TX: before 2020PA48 7TY: before 2020PA48 7UA: before 2020PA48 7UB: before 2020PA48 7UD: before 2020PA48 7UE: before 2020PA48 7UF: before 2020PA48 7UG: before 2020PA48 7AA: new since 2020 Kintyre and the Islands Map of every postcode in PA48, by new since 2020 Of the 17 postcodes in PA48 that ONS places, 1 are new since 2020 and 16 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 500 m. A847 Kintyre and the Islands
  • New since 2020: 1
  • In use before 2020: 16

Of the 17 postcodes in PA48 that ONS places, 1 are new since 2020 and 16 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. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 55.7389, longitude -6.3841. 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 newest postcode

PA48 7AANovember 2025

What broadband can you get in PA48?

Ofcom reports on 16 of the 17 postcodes in PA48. At none of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit0 of 16
Postcodes where every home can get superfast13 of 16
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband2 of 16

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 PA48

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

PA48 717 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in PA48

We list no town or village for PA48. 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 PA48 postcode is here, under its sector above.

Who covers PA48

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 Lochaber17

Police force areas

  • Scotland17

Next to PA48

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"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after PA48 in the PA area.

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