PA6 postcode district: Houston and around, Renfrewshire

PA6 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 170 postcodes in use in 1 sector. It has postcodes in Houston and Johnstone. Its council is Renfrewshire.

Postcodes in use: 170
Sectors: 1
Council: Renfrewshire
Places: 2 places

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

Every postcode in PA6, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 13
Some can get gigabit: 28
Every home and business can get gigabit: 127
Ofcom gives no figure: 2
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 170 postcodes in PA6 that ONS places, 13 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 28 have some that can, 127 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 190 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 55.8658, longitude -4.5370. 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

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

PA6 7AA PA6 7BJ PA6 7BL PA6 7BY PA6 7EJ PA6 7EP PA6 7ER PA6 7FG PA6 7FN PA6 7GB PA6 7HB PA6 7HG

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PA6 7HG, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in PA6?

Ofcom reports on 168 of the 170 postcodes in PA6. At 127 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 gigabit127 of 168

Postcodes where every home can get superfast160 of 168

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 168

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