KA8 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

542 of the district's 670 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 55.47174, -4.61239, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in KA8

Companies House lists 707 companies with a registered office in KA8; 194 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 KA8

• South Ayrshire
• Scotland
• Ayr
• Prestwick

Roads filed under KA8

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.

• Albert Terrace
• Alderston Avenue
• Alderston Park
• Alderston Place
• Alexandria Terrace
• Allan Place
• Allison Street
• Annpit Road
• Ardlui Road
• Back Hawkhill Avenue
• Back Main Street
• Back Peebles Street
• Beech Grove
• Bellesleyhill Avenue
• Bellesleyhill Court
• Bellesleyhill Road
• Bellrock Road
• Belvidere Terrace
• Blackhouse Place
• Bluebell Grove
• Boundary Road
• Braehead Avenue
• Braehead Crescent
• Braemar Square
• Braeside Road
• Britannia Place
• Burnett Terrace
• Callander Road
• Callendar Place
• Cambuslea Gardens
• Cambuslea Road
• Campbell Court
• Campbell Street
• Cherry Blossom Way
• Church Court
• Churchill Crescent
• Content Avenue
• Content Street
• Cowan Crescent
• Craigie Avenue
• Craigie Lea
• Craigie Road
• Craigie Walk
• Craigie Way
• Cree Lodge Court
• Cross Gait
• Crown Square
• Crown Street
• Cuthbert Gardens
• Daisy Place
• Dalmilling Crescent
• Dalmilling Drive
• Dalmilling Road
• Damside
• Davidson Place
• Drummond Crescent
• Duke Terrace
• Dunlop Crescent
• Dunlop Terrace
• Eaglesham Drive

Check an address in KA8

Check an address in KA8

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=KA8" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about KA8

What does a KA8 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the KA8 district of the KA (Kilmarnock) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Ayr. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 542 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 KA8

• KA92.9 km
• KA73.0 km
• KA109.0 km
• KA69.3 km
• KA214.1 km
• KA1914.4 km
• KA514.7 km
• KA115.5 km
• KA1116.4 km
• KA1216.7 km
• KA420.3 km
• KA320.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids