PA3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

689 of the district's 1,093 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 55.85151, -4.44580, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PA3

Companies House lists 1,281 companies with a registered office in PA3; 179 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 PA3

• Renfrewshire
• Scotland
• Paisley
• Linwood
• Renfrew

Roads filed under PA3

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.

• Abbotsburn Way
• Abbotsinch Road
• Abbot Street
• Abercorn Street
• Abercromby Avenue
• Abernethy Drive
• Albany Way
• Albion Gate
• Albion Street
• Alford Place
• Andrews Street
• Ardgour Drive
• Arkleston Crescent
• Arkleston Road
• Arniston Way
• Arran Avenue
• Arran Place
• Atholl Place
• Avenger Way
• Avon Drive
• Back Sneddon Street
• Bankfoot Road
• Bargarron Drive
• Barnwell Street
• Barochan Crescent
• Barochan Way
• Baron Road
• Belltrees Crescent
• Belmont Road
• Berwick Crescent
• Birkenshaw Way
• Black Cart View
• Blacklaw Lane
• Blackstone Road
• Blackstoun Avenue
• Blackstoun Oval
• Blackstoun Road
• Blackwood Avenue
• Blythswood Drive
• Brabloch Crescent
• Brabloch Park
• Braidwood Place
• Brediland Road
• Brewster Avenue
• Brewster Wynd
• Brick Lane
• Bridge of Weir Road
• Bridge Street
• Broomdyke Way
• Bruce Avenue
• Bruce Road
• Brydson Place
• Burnbrae Drive
• Burnbrae Road
• Burnside Place
• Bute Road
• Byres Avenue
• Byres Crescent
• Cairn Drive
• Cairters Corner

Check an address in PA3

Check an address in PA3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PA3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PA3

What does a PA3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PA3 district of the PA (Paisley) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Paisley. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 689 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 PA3

• PA11.9 km
• PA22.6 km
• PA44.1 km
• PA54.6 km
• PA85.5 km
• PA65.9 km
• G526.0 km
• G146.7 km
• G536.7 km
• G786.9 km
• PA107.0 km
• PA77.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids