Map of KY5 8LJ postcode

General information

Postcode	KY5 8LJ
Post Town	Lochgelly
Nearest station	Lochgelly (1 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Roads in this postcode	Colquhally Road Station Road
Number of UPRNs	7 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	56.140022
	Longitude	-3.301769
	Easting	319204
	Northing	694909
	Grid reference	NT192949
	UTM reference	30V 481247 6221704
	what3words	breached.combining.attends
	Plus code	9C8R4MRX+27
	Altitude	81 metres (265 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	8:42
	Sunset (today)	16:00
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	9.4 KMs (5.8 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
Water company	Scottish Water
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 2024
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)	7
Households (2011)	4
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	4,695 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Accessible rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00154935
Census output area (2011)	S00111345
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Jamphlars and Lochgelly Landward	S01009442
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Cardenden	S02001776
Travel to work area	Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy	S22000057

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