KW5 postcode district: Highland

KW5 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 12 postcodes in use in 1 sector. Its council is Highland.

Postcodes in use
12
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 KW5, and which are new since 2020

Map of every postcode in KW5, by new since 2020 Of the 12 postcodes in KW5 that ONS places, 12 were in use before 2020. Places named: Wick and East Caithness. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2 km. A9A99 KW5 6DG: before 2020KW5 6DJ: before 2020KW5 6DL: before 2020KW5 6DN: before 2020KW5 6DP: before 2020KW5 6DQ: before 2020KW5 6DR: before 2020KW5 6DS: before 2020KW5 6DT: before 2020KW5 6DU: before 2020KW5 6DW: before 2020KW5 6DX: before 2020 Wick and East Caithness Map of every postcode in KW5, by new since 2020 Of the 12 postcodes in KW5 that ONS places, 12 were in use before 2020. Places named: Wick and East Caithness. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2 km. A9A99 Wick and East Caithness
  • New since 2020: 0
  • In use before 2020: 12

Of the 12 postcodes in KW5 that ONS places, 12 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 58.2873, longitude -3.3824. 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

What broadband can you get in KW5?

Ofcom reports on 12 of the 12 postcodes in KW5. At 4 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 gigabit4 of 12
Postcodes where every home can get superfast5 of 12
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 12

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 KW5

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

KW5 612 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in KW5

We list no town or village for KW5. 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 KW5 postcode is here, under its sector above.

Who covers KW5

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

  • Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross12

Police force areas

  • Scotland12

Next to KW5

KW3 postcode district KW6 postcode district All KW districts

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after KW5 in the KW area.

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