What does a KA2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the KA2 district of the KA (Kilmarnock) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Dundonald. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 227 live postcodes.

KA2 postcode district

KA2, in the KA (Kilmarnock) postcode area, has 227 live and 47 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 108 roads under it.

postcode area	KA (Kilmarnock)
live postcodes	227
terminated postcodes	47
sectors	2
roads listed	108
companies registered	352
centroid	55.59552, -4.56710
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

227 of the district's 274 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 55.59552, -4.56710, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
KA2 0	124	34
KA2 9	103	13

Companies registered in KA2

Companies House lists 352 companies with a registered office in KA2; 84 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for KA2

Scotland
East Ayrshire
South Ayrshire
Dundonald
Crosshouse
Kilmarnock
Knockentiber
Port-nah-Abhainne
Gatehead
North Ayrshire
Earlston

Roads filed under KA2

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

Annandale Crescent
Annandale Gardens
Annandale Lane
Annandale View
Auchans Avenue
Auchans Drive
Barr Avenue
Beaton Lane
Brailsford Crescent
Bruce Avenue
Busbie Gardens
Busbiehill Steadings
Busbie View
Carmel Place
Castle Drive
Castle Terrace
Castleview
Coats Place
Cochrane Avenue
Cochrane Drive
Corse Place
Craig Drive
Craigie Place
Craiglea Avenue
Craufurdhill Place
Crawfurdland Place
Credon Drive
Crossdene Road
Dean Place
Drybridge Road
Earl Crescent
Earl Drive
Earl Mount
Earl Rise
Fairlie View
Fardalehill View
Fisher Court
Fisher Way
Fullarton Avenue
Gatehead Road
Glenclova Gardens
Glen Farrar Way
Glen Lyon Crescent
Glen Nevis Place
Glen Orchy Place
Glen Orrin Avenue
Glen Shiel Crescent
Glen Trool Walk
Glen Truim View
Greenhill Terrace
Gulliland Avenue
Hannah Drive
Hemphill View
Hopefield Gardens
Hunter Road
Irvine Road
Kilmarnock Road
Kilmaurs Road
Kilnford Crescent
Kilnford Drive

all 108 roads

Laurieland Avenue
Laurieston Court
Lister Street
Lochside Court
Loudoun Place
Main Road
Main Street
Merkland Park
Merkland Place
Milton View
Moorfield Place
Mote View
Mount Village
Newfield Drive
Newfield Place
Old Auchans View
Old Rome Way
Paddock View
Parkhill Avenue
Parkthorn View
Plann Cottages
Plann Road
Playingfield Crescent
Playingfield Road
Pollock Morris Drive
Porter Drive
Richmond Terrace
School Wynd
Simpson Street
Smillie Place
Southhook Road
Springfield Road
Springhill Avenue
Stuart Place
Tarbolton Road
Thornton Avenue
Vernon Place
Wallace Avenue
Warly Drive
Warly Place
Wilson Place
Winehouse Yett
Woodbank Road
Woodlea Court
Woodlea Crescent
A759
B750
B7081

Check an address in KA2

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=KA2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about KA2

What does a KA2 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the KA2 district of the KA (Kilmarnock) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Dundonald. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 227 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest KA2

KA14.4 km
KA114.6 km
KA126.7 km
KA107.1 km
KA37.1 km
KA1310.7 km
KA911.1 km
KA411.7 km
KA2012.6 km
KA814.1 km
KA2114.6 km
KA514.6 km
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