IV3 postcode district: Inverness and around, Highland

IV3 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 466 postcodes in use in 2 sectors. It has postcodes in Inverness. Its council is Highland.

Postcodes in use
466
Sectors
2
Council
Highland
Places
Inverness

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in IV3, and which are new since 2020

Map of every postcode in IV3, by new since 2020 Of the 466 postcodes in IV3 that ONS places, 6 are new since 2020 and 460 were in use before 2020. Places named: Inverness. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. 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since 2020IV3 8FE: new since 2020IV3 8FF: new since 2020IV3 8FG: new since 2020IV3 8FH: new since 2020IV3 8PA: new since 2020 Inverness Map of every postcode in IV3, by new since 2020 Of the 466 postcodes in IV3 that ONS places, 6 are new since 2020 and 460 were in use before 2020. Places named: Inverness. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. Inverness
  • New since 2020: 6
  • In use before 2020: 460

Of the 466 postcodes in IV3 that ONS places, 6 are new since 2020 and 460 were in use before 2020.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 57.4764, longitude -4.2482. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The 5 newest postcodes

IV3 8FGMay 2026IV3 8FFJuly 2024IV3 8FHMay 2023IV3 8FEMarch 2023IV3 8PADecember 2021

What broadband can you get in IV3?

Ofcom reports on 460 of the 466 postcodes in IV3. At 374 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 3 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit374 of 460
Postcodes where every home can get superfast434 of 460
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband3 of 460

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

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Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Postcodes in IV3

Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.

IV3 5205 postcodesIV3 8261 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in IV3

Towns and villages with postcodes in IV3, and how many each has here.

Inverness postcodes,440

Who covers IV3

How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.

Councils

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Constituencies

  • Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire458
  • Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross8

Police force areas

  • Scotland466

Next to IV3

IV2 postcode district IV4 postcode district All IV districts Inverness postcodes

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after IV3 in the IV area.

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