Map of KY5 8LH postcode

General information

Postcode	KY5 8LH
Post Town	Lochgelly
Nearest station	Lochgelly (1 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Roads in this postcode	Cartmore Road Launcherhead Road
Number of UPRNs	15 View
Businesses	HAY AND HAY HOMES LTD

Geography

	Latitude	56.132861
	Longitude	-3.326274
	Easting	317666
	Northing	694141
	Grid reference	NT176941
	UTM reference	30V 479720 6220914
	what3words	inhales.crouches.tangent
	FixPhrase	cube lung simmering vitally
	Plus code	9C8R4MMF+4F
	Altitude	111 metres (364 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	8:17
	Sunset (today)	16:37
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	8.9 KMs (5.6 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Lochgelly, Cardenden and Benarty	S13003130
Council Area	Fife	S12000047
Constituency (2024)	Glenrothes and Mid Fife	S14000090
MP	Richard Baker	Labour
Police force	Scotland
NUTS/ITL 3	Clackmannanshire and Fife
NUTS/ITL 2	Eastern Scotland
NUTS/ITL 1	Scotland
Country	Scotland	S92000003

Data

Date introduced	January 1980
Last updated	December 2025
User type	Small (addresses receive less than 25 items of mail per day)
Quality	Within the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean

Demographics

Population (2011)	13
Households (2011)	5
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2017-2020)	4,709 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Other Urban Areas
Rural/urban (2011)	Accessible rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00154998
Census output area (2011)	S00108980
Lower layer super output area (2021)	Lochgelly North	S01016562
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Leuchatsbeath	S01009417
Middle layer super output area (2021)	Lochgelly East	S02003072
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Cowdenbeath North	S02001771
Travel to work area	Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy	S22000057

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