KY5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

500 of the district's 564 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 56.14594, -3.29329, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in KY5

Companies House lists 511 companies with a registered office in KY5; none of them at an address 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 KY5

• Scotland
• Fife
• Lochgelly
• Ballingry
• Kinglassie
• Lochore
• Cardenden
• Bowhill
• Crosshill
• Auchterderran
• Dundonald
• Perth and Kinross
• Glenrothes

Roads filed under KY5

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.

• Abbotsford Road
• Adam Place
• Adamson Road
• Alexander Place
• Andrew Street
• Ashgrove Terrace
• Auchterderran Road
• Bain Street
• Balbedie Avenue
• Balbedie Court
• Balbedie Gardens
• Balderran Drive
• Balgonie Grove
• Balgreggie Park
• Balgreggie Road
• Ballingry Crescent
• Ballingry Lane
• Ballingry Road
• Ballingry Street
• Bank Street
• Benarty Avenue
• Berry Street
• Birnie Brae
• Birnie Street
• Bishop Avenue
• Bluebell Gardens
• Blythe Crescent
• Boswell Knowe
• Boswell Road
• Bowhill View
• Bowhouse Drive
• Bowhouse Terrace
• Boyd Place
• Brandies Park
• Buller Street
• Burnbank Place
• Burnlea Terrace
• Burnside
• Campbell Crescent
• Capledrae Court
• Carden Avenue
• Cardenbarns Road
• Carden Castle Avenue
• Carden Castle Park
• Carden Crescent
• Cardenden Road
• Carden Mill Brae
• Cartmore Road
• Castle Avenue
• Catherine Terrace
• Chapel Street
• Chisholm Crescent
• Church Lane
• Church Place
• Church Street
• Cleikimin Crescent
• Clune Terrace
• Cluny Park
• Colquhally Road
• Cook Square

Check an address in KY5

Check an address in KY5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=KY5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about KY5

What does a KY5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the KY5 district of the KY (Kirkcaldy) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Lochgelly. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 500 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 KY5

• KY45.6 km
• KY27.1 km
• KY68.1 km
• KY19.9 km
• KY39.9 km
• KY710.2 km
• KY1311.2 km
• KY1113.1 km
• KY1214.7 km
• KY818.3 km
• KY1418.6 km
• EH3019.0 km
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distance between the districts' centroids