What does an IV17 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the IV17 district of the IV (Inverness) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Alness. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 182 live postcodes.

IV17 postcode district

IV17, in the IV (Inverness) postcode area, has 182 live and 12 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 92 roads under it.

postcode area	IV (Inverness)
live postcodes	182
terminated postcodes	12
sectors	1
roads listed	92
companies registered	225
centroid	57.69890, -4.25927
directory release	2026-08

Postcodes and sectors

182 of the district's 194 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 57.69890, -4.25927, which locates the district, not a building.

sector	live	terminated
IV17 0	182	12

Companies registered in IV17

Companies House lists 225 companies with a registered office in IV17; none of them at an address 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 IV17

Highland
Scotland
Alness
Dalmore
Ardross
Achandunie
Strathy
Strath Rusdale

Roads filed under IV17

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 Lane
Alastair Munro Court
Ardross Place
Ardross Road
Averon Road
Averon Way
Birch Road
Bracken Road
Braeface
Braeface Park
Bridgend Court
Broom Crescent
Caplich Hill
Caplich Road
Castle View
Coul Garden
Coulhill Road
Coulhill Wood
Coul Park
Dal nan Rocas
Darroch Drive
David Oag Grove
David Ross Street
Davis Drive
Dr Stewart Campbell Court
East Newfield Park
Firthview Terrace
Fulton Court
Fyrish Drive
Fyrish View
Fyrish Way
Garden Square
Hawthorn Place
High Street
Hill Street
Hill Terrace
Hugh MacKenzie Avenue
Invercarron
Kendal Court
Kendal Crescent
Larch Crescent
Lindleybank
Margaret Thom Way
Market Square
Market Street
Millenium Garden
Milnafua
Mitchel Lane
Munro Terrace
Novar Road
Obsdale Court
Obsdale Gardens
Obsdale Park
Obsdale Road
Old Milnafua Road
Perrins Lane
Perrins Road
Pipers Field
River Close North
River Close South

all 92 roads

River Drive
River Lane
Riverside Drive
Riverside Road
Riverside View
River Wynd
Robertson Court
Robertson Drive
Rowan Drive
Salvesen Court
Salvesen Crescent
Sandy Macrae Street
Shillinghill
Springfield Terrace
Station Court
Sunderland Place
Teaninich Avenue
Teaninich Paddock
Teaninich Street
Teaninich Triangle
The Orchard
Wallace Ross Place
West Newfield Crescent
West Newfield Park
Willowbank Park
Willowbank Road
Willowbrae
Woodside
Wright's Lane
A9
B817
B9176

Check an address in IV17

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=IV17" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about IV17

What does an IV17 postcode tell you?: That the address lies in the IV17 district of the IV (Inverness) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Alness. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 182 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 IV17

IV166.0 km
IV186.2 km
IV1113.3 km
IV715.0 km
IV1015.0 km
IV1515.1 km
IV915.2 km
IV816.1 km
IV1916.5 km
IV1421.4 km
IV2422.1 km
IV622.6 km
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