IV5 postcode district: Highland

IV5 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 42 postcodes in use in 1 sector. Its council is Highland.

Postcodes in use
42
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 IV5, and which are new since 2020

Map of every postcode in IV5, by new since 2020 Of the 42 postcodes in IV5 that ONS places, 3 are new since 2020 and 39 were in use before 2020. Places named: Aird and Loch Ness. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 1 km. A862 IV5 7AB: before 2020IV5 7NA: before 2020IV5 7NB: before 2020IV5 7ND: before 2020IV5 7NE: before 2020IV5 7NL: before 2020IV5 7NN: before 2020IV5 7NS: before 2020IV5 7NT: before 2020IV5 7NU: before 2020IV5 7NW: before 2020IV5 7NX: before 2020IV5 7NY: before 2020IV5 7NZ: before 2020IV5 7PA: before 2020IV5 7PB: before 2020IV5 7PD: before 2020IV5 7PE: before 2020IV5 7PF: before 2020IV5 7PG: before 2020IV5 7PH: before 2020IV5 7PJ: before 2020IV5 7PL: before 2020IV5 7PN: before 2020IV5 7PP: before 2020IV5 7PQ: before 2020IV5 7PR: before 2020IV5 7PS: before 2020IV5 7PT: before 2020IV5 7PU: before 2020IV5 7PW: before 2020IV5 7PX: before 2020IV5 7PY: before 2020IV5 7PZ: before 2020IV5 7QB: before 2020IV5 7QE: before 2020IV5 7QN: before 2020IV5 7QP: before 2020IV5 7QS: before 2020IV5 7QR: new since 2020IV5 7QT: new since 2020IV5 7QU: new since 2020 Aird and Loch Ness Map of every postcode in IV5, by new since 2020 Of the 42 postcodes in IV5 that ONS places, 3 are new since 2020 and 39 were in use before 2020. Places named: Aird and Loch Ness. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 1 km. Aird and Loch Ness
  • New since 2020: 3
  • In use before 2020: 39

Of the 42 postcodes in IV5 that ONS places, 3 are new since 2020 and 39 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. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 57.4691, longitude -4.4104. 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 3 newest postcodes

IV5 7QUApril 2023IV5 7QTOctober 2022IV5 7QRSeptember 2021

What broadband can you get in IV5?

Ofcom reports on 42 of the 42 postcodes in IV5. At 21 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit21 of 42
Postcodes where every home can get superfast29 of 42
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband2 of 42

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 IV5

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

IV5 742 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in IV5

We list no town or village for IV5. 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 IV5 postcode is here, under its sector above.

Who covers IV5

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

Councils

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Constituencies

  • Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross42

Police force areas

  • Scotland42

Next to IV5

IV4 postcode district IV6 postcode district All IV districts

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after IV5 in the IV area.

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