IV53 postcode district: Highland

IV53 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 11 postcodes in use in 1 sector. Its council is Highland.

Postcodes in use
11
Sectors
1
Council
Highland
Places
None listed

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

Every postcode in IV53, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in IV53, by gigabit broadband Of the 11 postcodes in IV53 that ONS places, 11 have no home or business that can get gigabit. One group of postcodes without gigabit is outlined: 6 postcodes without gigabit. Places named: Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A890 IV53 8UG: no gigabitIV53 8UH: no gigabitIV53 8UJ: no gigabitIV53 8UN: no gigabitIV53 8UP: no gigabitIV53 8UR: no gigabitIV53 8UT: no gigabitIV53 8UU: no gigabitIV53 8UW: no gigabitIV53 8UX: no gigabitIV53 8UY: no gigabit Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh 6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined: this goes to IV53 8UT, the one nearest the middle of them6 postcodes without gigabit Map of every postcode in IV53, by gigabit broadband Of the 11 postcodes in IV53 that ONS places, 11 have no home or business that can get gigabit. One group of postcodes without gigabit is outlined: 6 postcodes without gigabit. Places named: Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 1 km. Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh 6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined: this goes to IV53 8UT, the one nearest the middle of them6 postcodes without gigabit
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 11
  • Some can get gigabit: 0
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 0
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 0
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 11 postcodes in IV53 that ONS places, 11 have no home or business that can get gigabit.

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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 600 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 57.3442, longitude -5.5547. 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; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; 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

Postcodes without gigabit

IV53 8UGIV53 8UHIV53 8UJIV53 8UNIV53 8UPIV53 8URIV53 8UTIV53 8UUIV53 8UWIV53 8UXIV53 8UY

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

  • 6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. IV53 8UT, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in IV53?

Ofcom reports on 11 of the 11 postcodes in IV53. At none of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit0 of 11
Postcodes where every home can get superfast5 of 11
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 11

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 IV53

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

IV53 811 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in IV53

We list no town or village for IV53. A place gets a page here only when enough postcodes are in one: a town or village here is a built-up area named by the Office for National Statistics in England and Wales, or a census locality named by National Records of Scotland. Every IV53 postcode is here, under its sector above.

Who covers IV53

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

Councils

What council am I in?

Constituencies

  • Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire11

Police force areas

  • Scotland11

Next to IV53

IV52 postcode district IV54 postcode district All IV districts

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after IV53 in the IV area.

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