IV1 postcode district
IV1, in the IV (Inverness) postcode area, has 285 live and 720 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 79 roads under it.
| postcode area | IV (Inverness) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 285 |
| terminated postcodes | 720 |
| sectors | 4 |
| roads listed | 79 |
| companies registered | 1,031 |
| centroid | 57.48407, -4.23511 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
285 of the district's 1,005 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 57.48407, -4.23511, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| IV1 1 | 129 | 223 |
| IV1 2 | 0 | 391 |
| IV1 3 | 52 | 3 |
| IV1 9 | 104 | 103 |
Companies registered in IV1
Companies House lists 1,031 companies with a registered office in IV1; 384 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.
Places OS Open Names lists for IV1
- Highland
- Scotland
- Inverness
- Inbhir Nis
- North Kessock
- Craigrory
- Croftnacriech
- Glackmore
- Bogallan
- Drumsmittal
- Kilmuir
Roads filed under IV1
Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.
- Academy Street
- Balnabrath Way
- Bank Lane
- Bank Street
- Barclay Gardens
- Baron Taylor's Street
- Beaton's Lane
- Bellfield Drive
- Bellfield Road
- Bridge Street
- Bronze Heuk
- Burnett Road
- Castle Wynd
- Chapel Street
- Church Lane
- Church Street
- Cromwell Road
- Deveron Street
- Douglas Row
- Drummond Street
- Drumsmittal Road
- Factory Street
- Falcon Square
- Farmhouse Court
- Ferraline Park
- Ferry Brae
- First Field Avenue
- Fraser Street
- Friars' Lane
- Friars' Street
- George Street
- Glebe Street
- Grant's Close
- Harbour Road
- Henderson Drive
- Henderson Road
- High Street
- Inglis Street
- Innes Street
- Lombard Street
- Longman Drive
- Longman Road
- Lotland Place
- Lotland Street
- Main Street
- Manse Place
- Marchburn Court
- Margaret Street
- Marine Park
- Meadowbank
- Mealmarket Close
- Millbank
- Mill Crescent
- North Church Place
- Oakleigh Road
- Old Craigton Road
- Old Mill
- Point Road
- Portland Place
- Post Office Avenue
all 79 roads
- Riverside Street
- Rose Street
- Round House Avenue
- Round House Court
- School Lane
- Seafield Road
- Sgriodan Crescent
- Shore Street
- Stadium Road
- Station Square
- Strothers Lane
- Tor Gorm Road
- Union Street
- Walker Place
- Walker Road
- Waterloo Place
- Wester Kessock Avenue
- Yairs Rise
- B9161
Check an address in IV1
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=IV1" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about IV1
- What does an IV1 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the IV1 district of the IV (Inverness) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Inverness. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 285 live postcodes.
Where the counts come from
- ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
- os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0
What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.
Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.
Districts nearest IV1
- IV990.7 km
- IV31.2 km
- IV23.5 km
- IV88.0 km
- IV910.0 km
- IV510.6 km
- IV1012.9 km
- IV614.1 km
- IV714.3 km
- IV1517.4 km
- IV417.5 km
- IV1320.5 km
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