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Highland council area. Every figure carries its own date.

Choose a ward to see its people, homes, health and mapped crime. These are electoral neighbourhoods within the council area; some extend beyond the city itself.

Highland

21 mapped electoral wards · May 2026. The same wards are available in the named list below. These are council boundaries, not police neighbourhoods.

Highland: 21 wards · boundaries May 2026
Ward	People in census	Privately rented homes	Bad or very bad health
North, West and Central Sutherland	5,795	Not available	Not available
Thurso and Northwest Caithness	12,296	Not available	Not available
Wick and East Caithness	12,894	Not available	Not available
East Sutherland and Edderton	7,705	Not available	Not available
Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh	12,198	Not available	Not available
Cromarty Firth	12,740	Not available	Not available
Tain and Easter Ross	8,773	Not available	Not available
Dingwall and Seaforth	13,029	Not available	Not available
Black Isle	10,515	Not available	Not available
Eilean á Chèo	10,699	Not available	Not available
Caol and Mallaig	8,877	Not available	Not available
Aird and Loch Ness	12,103	Not available	Not available
Inverness West	10,171	Not available	Not available
Inverness Central	12,172	Not available	Not available
Inverness Ness-side	11,107	Not available	Not available
Inverness Millburn	9,556	Not available	Not available
Culloden and Ardersier	11,546	Not available	Not available
Nairn and Cawdor	12,575	Not available	Not available
Inverness South	16,635	Not available	Not available
Badenoch and Strathspey	12,779	Not available	Not available
Fort William and Ardnamurchan	11,171	Not available	Not available

Look beneath the council average

People aged 16+ with a degree or higher

21.3% to 41.3%

People aged 16+ with a degree or higher ranged from 21.3% in Cromarty Firth to 41.3% in Black Isle — a gap of 20 percentage points.

20 March 2022 · 21 of 21 current wards with comparable figures.

Qualifications show local skills, not whether people have secure jobs or use those skills at work. Scotland uses its own qualification categories.

See each ward and the workings

These are separate ward percentages, not an average of them. Boundaries: May 2026. Missing or differently defined figures are excluded from this range and stay visible on the ward pages.

People aged 16+ with a degree or higher · 20 March 2022
Ward	Share	Count	Population or households covered
Cromarty Firth	21.3%	2,199	10,317
Wick and East Caithness	21.9%	2,367	10,800
Thurso and Northwest Caithness	24.2%	2,525	10,429
Inverness Central	26.2%	2,714	10,349
Tain and Easter Ross	26.6%	1,942	7,290
Dingwall and Seaforth	27.6%	2,987	10,813
Inverness West	28.4%	2,469	8,700
Caol and Mallaig	29.2%	2,179	7,462
East Sutherland and Edderton	29.4%	1,973	6,716
Fort William and Ardnamurchan	29.8%	2,850	9,554
Culloden and Ardersier	29.9%	2,853	9,533
North, West and Central Sutherland	31.1%	1,590	5,112
Inverness Millburn	31.3%	2,485	7,932
Nairn and Cawdor	32%	3,453	10,795
Inverness Ness-side	35.1%	3,195	9,105
Inverness South	35.8%	4,802	13,407
Eilean á Chèo	37%	3,410	9,206
Badenoch and Strathspey	37.8%	4,125	10,912
Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh	37.9%	4,000	10,548
Aird and Loch Ness	38.4%	3,935	10,252
Black Isle	41.3%	3,648	8,839

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