Nigg Ferry

11°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 11° / 4° · 30% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 2° · Mist

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:33Sunset 16:25

8h 52m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: St Andrew’s Day, Mon 30 Nov

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

16US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Inverness, United Kingdom

245 reported road collisions (2025)

125 killed or seriously injured · 392 casualties · 10.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

23 food businesses within 2 miles

• 12 passed
• 1 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 1 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£224,574 average▲ 7.4% YoY

Across Highland · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Cheapest petrol: 175.7p · Asda (11.6 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 199.7p · Asda (11.6 km)

1 station within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

• Caithness Committee approves six Community Regeneration Fund applications· 2 Nov 2026
• Community Regeneration Funds to help Gairloch’s local newspaper· 2 Nov 2026
• Dr Jean Munro recommended to receive Freedom of Grantown-on-Spey· 2 Nov 2026
• Invitation to pay parking boosts Badenoch and Strathspey Area and Common Good Funds· 2 Nov 2026
• Chief Social Work Officer 2025/26 annual report· 30 Oct 2026

Source: Highland Council

237,260 residents in Highland

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in Scotland

4% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 10% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

SNP / Independent coalition

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Parks & greens2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

13,920 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£775 median full-time weekly pay

2.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,917 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

• Life satisfaction7.9
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.9
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.7

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross:

• Hold a referendum on abolishing the Scottish Parliament & Government283 local signatures · 17,029 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately213 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills211 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks197 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth119 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

• Balnapaling · 0.5 km

  Balnapaling is a village on the north side of the Cromarty Firth, opposite Cromarty, located in eastern Ross-shire, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

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  Cromarty Lifeboat Station · 2.1 km

  Cromarty Lifeboat Station was located on Marine Terrace in Cromarty, a town and former royal burgh on the Black Isle peninsula, overlooking the Cromarty Firth, approximately 20 miles (32 km) north-east of Inverness, i…

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  Cromarty · 2.1 km

  Cromarty is a town, civil parish and former royal burgh in Ross and Cromarty, in the Highland area of Scotland. Situated at the tip of the Black Isle on the southern shore of the mouth of Cromarty Firth, it is 5 miles…

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  Cromarty Courthouse · 2.2 km

  Cromarty Courthouse, formerly Cromarty Town House, is a municipal building in Church Street, Cromarty, in the Highland area of Scotland. The structure, which is used as a museum, is a Category A listed building.

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  Nigg Bay · 2.3 km

  Nigg Bay is a large, relatively shallow sandy bay, consisting of mudflats, saltmarsh and wet grassland, located on the north east coast of the Cromarty Firth, 5 miles (8 km) east of Invergordon, in the district of Ros…

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  Cromarty Castle · 2.5 km

  Cromarty Castle was a castle in Cromarty, Scotland. Cromarty, then known as Crumbathyn, was created a royal burgh in the reign of King Alexander I of Scotland. Cromarty overlooks the entrance to the Cromarty Firth and…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)