ML5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

1,018 of the district's 1,309 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 55.86027, -4.03193, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in ML5

Companies House lists 1,507 companies with a registered office in ML5; 38 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 ML5

• North Lanarkshire
• Scotland
• Coatbridge
• Marnoch
• Glenboig
• Bargeddie
• Annathill
• Greenfoot

Roads filed under ML5

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.

• Abercorn Road
• Academy Street
• Achray Place
• Addiewell Place
• Afton Gardens
• Agnew Avenue
• Ailsa Place
• Ailsa Road
• Aitkenhead Avenue
• Albany Street
• Alberta Avenue
• Albert Street
• Albion Street
• Alder Grove
• Alexander Gardens
• Alexander Street
• Allan Street
• Almond Place
• Alston Avenue
• Ambrose Court
• Annathill Gardens
• Annerley Place
• Appin Way
• Argyll Gardens
• Arniston Place
• Arnott Drive
• Ashgrove
• Atholl Place
• Auldhame Street
• Avon Place
• Baird Street
• Balfron Drive
• Balfron Place
• Ballater Way
• Ballochmyle Wynd
• Balmoral Crescent
• Balvenie Street
• Bankhead Avenue
• Bankhead Place
• Bank Street
• Barleycorn Path
• Baron Place
• Barra Avenue
• Barra Place
• Barrowfield Street
• Beauly Place
• Bedlay Place
• Beechwood Drive
• Belhaven Place
• Bellvue Way
• Belmont Street
• Benson Street
• Berwick Place
• Berwick Street
• Bessemer Drive
• Birkenshaw Road
• Birkwood Court
• Bishopburn Drive
• Blackness Street
• Blaiklands Crescent

Check an address in ML5

Check an address in ML5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=ML5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about ML5

What does an ML5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the ML5 district of the ML (Motherwell) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Coatbridge. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 1,018 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 ML5

• ML64.5 km
• G694.7 km
• ML44.7 km
• G715.0 km
• G345.1 km
• ML17.7 km
• G328.4 km
• G338.5 km
• G728.7 km
• G6710.0 km
• ML310.2 km
• G6810.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids