IV27 postcode district
IV27, in the IV (Inverness) postcode area, has 191 live and 13 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 48 roads under it.
| postcode area | IV (Inverness) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 191 |
| terminated postcodes | 13 |
| sectors | 2 |
| roads listed | 48 |
| companies registered | 185 |
| centroid | 58.27321, -4.79291 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
191 of the district's 204 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 58.27321, -4.79291, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| IV27 4 | 189 | 12 |
| IV27 9 | 2 | 1 |
Companies registered in IV27
Companies House lists 185 companies with a registered office in IV27; 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 IV27
- Highland
- Scotland
- An Luirg
- Lairg
- Lochinver
- Loch an Inbhir
- Tongue
- Kinlochbervie
- Diuranais
- Durness
- Scourie
- Melness
- Altnaharra
- Scourie More
- Inchnadamph
- An Druim Beag
- Drumbeg
- Smoo
- Keoldale
- Rhiconich
- Kylestrome
- Innis nan Lìon
- Rosehall
- Oykel Bridge
Roads filed under IV27
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.
- Allt a Ghlinne
- Baddidaroch Road
- Bervie Road
- Canisp Road
- Cassley Drive
- Church Hill Road
- Clash Breac
- Cnoc Glas
- Cornhill Road
- Culag Gardens
- Culag Road
- Druim Bhlar
- Glen Burn
- Hames Place
- Handa Terrace
- Harbour Road
- Inchard Place
- Innes Place
- Inver Park
- Inver Terrace
- Joseph Mackay Court
- Kirk Road
- Laundry Road
- Lochend
- Loyal Terrace
- Macleod Crescent
- Main Street
- Manse Road
- Milnclarin Way
- Moffat Square
- Mòine Path
- Ord Place
- Rathad Antaich Nigheachain
- Rathad Cnoc na H-Eaglais
- School Road
- Scree Road
- St Andrews Glebe
- Sutherland Arms Way
- The Terrace
- Varich Place
- A837
- A838
- A839
- A894
- B801
- B864
- B869
- B873
Check an address in IV27
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=IV27" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about IV27
- What does an IV27 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the IV27 district of the IV (Inverness) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Highland. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 191 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 IV27
- KW1138.6 km
- IV2645.1 km
- IV2847.4 km
- IV2449.6 km
- IV2357.5 km
- KW1058.2 km
- IV2561.5 km
- KW962.0 km
- IV1967.6 km
- KW868.4 km
- IV1771.2 km
- IV1672.8 km
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