PL2 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

650 of the district's 865 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 50.38973, -4.16349, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PL2

Companies House lists 600 companies with a registered office in PL2; 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 PL2

• Plymouth
• City of Plymouth
• South West

Roads filed under PL2

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.

• Abbotsbury Way
• Adelaide Street
• Admiralty Street
• Ainslie Terrace
• Albert Road
• Albion Drive
• Alcester Close
• Alcester Street
• Alexandra Road
• Alexandra Terrace
• Alfred Place
• Alfred Road
• Allenby Road
• Anson Place
• Antony Gardens
• Arden Grove
• Arundel Terrace
• Ash Grove
• Auckland Road
• Austin Avenue
• Ayreville Road
• Balfour Terrace
• Balmoral Avenue
• Barlow Gardens
• Bartholomew Road
• Barton Avenue
• Baytree Gardens
• Beacon Down Avenue
• Beaconfield Road
• Beacon Park Road
• Beatrice Avenue
• Beauchamp Crescent
• Beauchamp Road
• Beaumont Street
• Bedford Street
• Beechcroft Road
• Belair Road
• Benbow Street
• Beresford Street
• Berkshire Drive
• Bethany Gardens
• Biddick Drive
• Birchfield Avenue
• Boscastle Gardens
• Boscawen Place
• Bowers Road
• Boxhill Gardens
• Brancker Road
• Briardale Road
• Bromley Place
• Browning Road
• Brunel Avenue
• Brunel Terrace
• Brunswick Place
• Buckfast Close
• Bulleid Close
• Burrator Gardens
• Caernarvon Gardens
• Calstock Close
• Cambridge Road

Check an address in PL2

Check an address in PL2

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PL2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PL2

What does a PL2 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PL2 district of the PL (Plymouth) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Plymouth. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 650 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 PL2

• PL12.2 km
• PL52.4 km
• PL32.6 km
• PL43.0 km
• PL64.7 km
• PL106.0 km
• PL96.8 km
• PL116.8 km
• PL127.0 km
• PL78.4 km
• PL812.4 km
• PL2013.1 km
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distance between the districts' centroids