IV3 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

466 of the district's 893 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 57.47643, -4.24819, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in IV3

Companies House lists 1,040 companies with a registered office in IV3; 355 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 IV3

• Highland
• Scotland
• Inverness
• Inbhir Nis
• Bunchrew
• Kirkton
• Lochend
• Lentran
• Dochgarroch
• Balchraggan
• Leachkin
• Blackpark
• Newtonhill

Roads filed under IV3

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.

• Abban Place
• Abban Street
• Achmore Court
• Alexander Place
• Anderson Street
• Ardross Place
• Ardross Street
• Assynt Road
• Attadale Road
• Balachlan Drive
• Ballifeary Lane
• Ballifeary Road
• Balnacraig Court
• Balnacraig Lane
• Balnacraig Road
• Balnafettack Crescent
• Balnafettack Place
• Balnafettack Road
• Balnain Street
• Benula Road
• Birnie Terrace
• Bishop's Road
• Bishop's View
• Bishops Park
• Blackpark Terrace
• Blarmore Avenue
• Bowmore View
• Bridgeview Drive
• Brown Street
• Bruce Avenue
• Bruce Gardens
• Bruce Park
• Brudes Hill
• Bught Avenue
• Bught Drive
• Bught Lane
• Cairn Court
• Caledonian Road
• Cameron Road
• Cameron Square
• Canal Road
• Canal Terrace
• Carnarc Crescent
• Carn Gorm Terrace
• Carse Court
• Carsegate Road
• Carsegate Road North
• Carsegate Road South
• Carse Road
• Castlebay Gardens
• Celt Street
• Charleston Court
• Charleston Place
• Charleston View
• Clachnaharry Road
• Columba Road
• Coronation Park
• Coronation Road
• Craigard Place
• Craigard Terrace

Check an address in IV3

Check an address in IV3

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

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=IV3" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about IV3

What does an IV3 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the IV3 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 466 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 IV3

• IV11.2 km
• IV991.5 km
• IV23.9 km
• IV88.7 km
• IV59.7 km
• IV911.1 km
• IV613.7 km
• IV1014.1 km
• IV714.5 km
• IV416.6 km
• IV1517.5 km
• IV1320.3 km
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distance between the districts' centroids