PL5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

901 of the district's 1,131 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 50.41096, -4.16677, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in PL5

Companies House lists 674 companies with a registered office in PL5; 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 PL5

• South West
• Plymouth
• City of Plymouth
• South Hams
• Devon

Roads filed under PL5

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.

• Aberdeen Avenue
• Acklington Place
• Adams Close
• Admiralty Road
• Agaton Road
• Allern Lane
• Anzac Avenue
• Appleby Walk
• Architects Way
• Ark Royal Close
• Arkwright Gardens
• Ashburnham Road
• Ashleigh Close
• Ashleigh Lane
• Ashridge Gardens
• Aylesbury Crescent
• Ballad Gardens
• Barne Close
• Barne Lane
• Barne Road
• Barrie Gardens
• Beattie Road
• Beaufort Close
• Bede Gardens
• Belstone Close
• Berthon Road
• Berwick Avenue
• Betjeman Walk
• Bickham Road
• Biggin Hill
• Blackthorn Close
• Blairgowrie Road
• Blake Gardens
• Blaxton Lane
• Bodmin Road
• Boniface Lane
• Boringdon Avenue
• Boswell Close
• Boxhill Close
• Brake Road
• Branscombe Gardens
• Brayford Close
• Brentford Avenue
• Bridgelands Close
• Bridge View
• Bridwell Close
• Bridwell Lane North
• Bridwell Road
• Bronte Place
• Buckingham Place
• Budshead Green
• Budshead Road
• Bulwark Close
• Bunyan Close
• Burns Avenue
• Burrington Road
• Burrington Way
• Butt Park Road
• Byard Close
• Byron Avenue

Check an address in PL5

Check an address in PL5

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=PL5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about PL5

What does a PL5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the PL5 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 901 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 PL5

• PL22.4 km
• PL63.7 km
• PL33.8 km
• PL14.6 km
• PL44.8 km
• PL126.0 km
• PL117.6 km
• PL108.0 km
• PL98.5 km
• PL78.8 km
• PL2011.0 km
• PL1812.2 km
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distance between the districts' centroids