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, and which are new since 2020

Map of every postcode in KW6, by new since 2020 Of the 18 postcodes in KW6 that ONS places, 1 are new since 2020 and 17 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. KW6 6EA: before 2020KW6 6EB: before 2020KW6 6ED: before 2020KW6 6EE: before 2020KW6 6EF: before 2020KW6 6EG: before 2020KW6 6EH: before 2020KW6 6EJ: before 2020KW6 6EL: before 2020KW6 6EN: before 2020KW6 6EP: before 2020KW6 6EQ: before 2020KW6 6ET: before 2020KW6 6EU: before 2020KW6 6EX: before 2020KW6 6EY: before 2020KW6 6EZ: before 2020KW6 6ER: new since 2020 Wick and East Caithness Map of every postcode in KW6, by new since 2020 Of the 18 postcodes in KW6 that ONS places, 1 are new since 2020 and 17 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 2.5 km. Wick and East Caithness
  • New since 2020: 1
  • In use before 2020: 17

Of the 18 postcodes in KW6 that ONS places, 1 are new since 2020 and 17 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 58.2504, 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; 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 newest postcode

KW6 6ERSeptember 2021

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

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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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