KW6 postcode district: Highland

KW6 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 18 postcodes in use in 1 sector. Its council is Highland.

Postcodes in use
18
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 KW6, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in KW6, by gigabit broadband Of the 18 postcodes in KW6 that ONS places, 10 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 6 have some that can and 2 can all get it. One group of postcodes without gigabit is outlined: 6 postcodes without gigabit. Places named: Wick and East Caithness. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2 km. KW6 6EE: gigabit for allKW6 6EZ: gigabit for allKW6 6EA: some gigabitKW6 6ED: some gigabitKW6 6EF: some gigabitKW6 6ET: some gigabitKW6 6EU: some gigabitKW6 6EY: some gigabitKW6 6EB: no gigabitKW6 6EG: no gigabitKW6 6EH: no gigabitKW6 6EJ: no gigabitKW6 6EL: no gigabitKW6 6EN: no gigabitKW6 6EP: no gigabitKW6 6EQ: no gigabitKW6 6ER: no gigabitKW6 6EX: no gigabit Wick and East Caithness 6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined: this goes to KW6 6EG, the one nearest the middle of them6 postcodes without gigabit Map of every postcode in KW6, by gigabit broadband Of the 18 postcodes in KW6 that ONS places, 10 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 6 have some that can and 2 can all get it. One group of postcodes without gigabit is outlined: 6 postcodes without gigabit. Places named: Wick and East Caithness. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. Wick and East Caithness 6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined: this goes to KW6 6EG, the one nearest the middle of them6 postcodes without gigabit
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 10
  • Some can get gigabit: 6
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 2
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 0
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 18 postcodes in KW6 that ONS places, 10 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 6 have some that can and 2 can all get it.

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 58.2504, longitude -3.4442. 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

KW6 6EBKW6 6EGKW6 6EHKW6 6EJKW6 6ELKW6 6ENKW6 6EPKW6 6EQKW6 6ERKW6 6EX

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

  • 6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. KW6 6EG, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in KW6?

Ofcom reports on 18 of the 18 postcodes in KW6. At 2 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 gigabit2 of 18
Postcodes where every home can get superfast7 of 18
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 18

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 KW6

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

KW6 618 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in KW6

We list no town or village for KW6. 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 KW6 postcode is here, under its sector above.

Who covers KW6

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 Ross18

Police force areas

  • Scotland18

Next to KW6

KW5 postcode district KW7 postcode district All KW districts

"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after KW6 in the KW area.

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