What does a KY99 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the KY99 district of the KY (Kirkcaldy) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Dunfermline. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 13 live postcodes.

KY99 postcode district

KY99, in the KY (Kirkcaldy) postcode area, has 13 live and 12 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files no road under it.

postcode area	KY (Kirkcaldy)
live postcodes	13
terminated postcodes	12
sectors	10
roads listed	0
centroid	56.05308, -3.43623
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

13 of the district's 25 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 56.05308, -3.43623, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
KY99 0	1	0
KY99 1	2	0
KY99 2	1	0
KY99 3	1	0
KY99 4	3	12
KY99 5	1	0
KY99 6	1	0
KY99 7	1	0
KY99 8	1	0
KY99 9	1	0

Places OS Open Names lists for KY99

Dunfermline
Fife
Scotland

Roads filed under KY99

OS Open Names files no road under KY99, so a street here cannot be confirmed from the register and the lookup answers about the postcode alone.

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Common questions about KY99

What does a KY99 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the KY99 district of the KY (Kirkcaldy) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Dunfermline. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 13 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 KY99

KY111.5 km
KY124.6 km
EH307.9 km
KY48.2 km
EH2910.9 km
EH5111.5 km
KY312.8 km
EH5212.9 km
EH4913.2 km
KY513.6 km
EH2814.0 km
EH414.8 km
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