PA5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

597 of the district's 767 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 55.83108, -4.50977, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PA5

Companies House lists 599 companies with a registered office in PA5; 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 PA5

• Renfrewshire
• Scotland
• Johnstone
• Elderslie
• Brookfield
• Linwood

Roads filed under PA5

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.

• Abbey Drive
• Abbey Road
• Acacia Place
• Albert Road
• Alder Place
• Annan Place
• Ann Street
• Armour Place
• Armour Square
• Armour Street
• Arran Drive
• Ash Place
• Aspen Place
• Auchengreoch Avenue
• Auchengreoch Circle
• Auchengreoch Road
• Auchenlodment Road
• Balmoral Road
• Bankside Avenue
• Banktop Place
• Barclay Avenue
• Barclay Drive
• Bardrain Avenue
• Barochan Lane
• Barochan Road
• Beech Avenue
• Beech Road
• Beith Road
• Bevan Grove
• Birch Crescent
• Blackwood Terrace
• Braemar Drive
• Brewery Street
• Bridge of Weir Road
• Broom Terrace
• Broomward Drive
• Bruce Avenue
• Buchanan Street
• Buchanan Way
• Burns Drive
• Burnside Avenue
• Burnside Grove
• Burnside Road
• Bute Drive
• Byres Road
• Campbell Street
• Canal Avenue
• Canal Road
• Canal Street
• Cartside Avenue
• Cassidy Drive
• Castle Avenue
• Castle Road
• Cedar Avenue
• Charnwood Avenue
• Cherry Place
• Cherrywood Road
• Chestnut Place
• Chuckie Lane
• Churchill Avenue

Check an address in PA5

Check an address in PA5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PA5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PA5

What does a PA5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PA5 district of the PA (Paisley) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Johnstone. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 597 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 PA5

• PA102.7 km
• PA94.0 km
• PA64.2 km
• PA34.6 km
• PA24.7 km
• PA115.5 km
• PA15.9 km
• G787.6 km
• PA78.3 km
• PA128.4 km
• PA88.5 km
• PA48.7 km
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distance between the districts' centroids