Map of KW12 6YG postcode

General information

Postcode	KW12 6YG
Post Town	Halkirk
Nearest station	Georgemas Junction (2 km)
Bus stops	Mace Shop (E)
Roads in this postcode	Bridge Street Camilla Street
Number of UPRNs	42 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	58.508223
	Longitude	-3.492129
	Easting	313156
	Northing	958750
	Grid reference	ND131587
	UTM reference	30V 471324 6485399
	what3words	apple.stoppage.zealous
	Plus code	9CCRGG55+74
	Altitude	44 metres (144 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	6:22
	Sunset (today)	18:23
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	10 KMs (6.2 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Thurso and Northwest Caithness	S13002991
Council Area	Highland	S12000017
Constituency (2024)	Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross	S14000069
MP	Jamie Stone	Liberal Democrat
Police force	Scotland
Water company	Scottish Water
NUTS/ITL 3	Highlands and Islands
NUTS/ITL 2	Highlands and Islands
NUTS/ITL 1	Scotland
Country	Scotland	S92000003

Data

Date introduced	January 1980
Last updated	February 2025
User type	Small (addresses receive less than 25 items of mail per day)
Quality	Within the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean

Demographics

Population (2011)	56
Households (2011)	23
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	4,677 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Very remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00162178
Census output area (2011)	S00119605
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Caithness North West - 04	S01010795
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Caithness North West	S02002030
Travel to work area	Thurso	S22000080

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