Map of KW14 8UP postcode

General information

Postcode	KW14 8UP
Post Town	Thurso
Nearest station	Thurso (8 km)
Bus stops	Primary School (NE) Drill Hall (NW) Drill Hall (SE)
Roads in this postcode	Calder Square
Number of UPRNs	47 View
Businesses	MACLOUD SOUND LIMITED

Geography

	Latitude	58.592555
	Longitude	-3.384902
	Easting	319597
	Northing	968005
	Grid reference	ND195680
	UTM reference	30V 477625 6494748
	what3words	pave.jugs.forklift
	Plus code	9CCRHJV8+22
	Altitude	21 metres (70 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	9:04
	Sunset (today)	15:33
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	0.8 KMs (0.5 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	Caithness and Sutherland, and Ross and Cromarty
NUTS/ITL 2	Highlands and Islands
NUTS/ITL 1	Scotland
Country	Scotland	S92000003

Data

Date introduced	January 1980
Last updated	December 2024
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)	49
Households (2011)	32
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	1,838 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Very remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00162115
Census output area (2011)	S00119035
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Caithness North West - 01	S01010792
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Caithness North West	S02002030
Travel to work area	Thurso	S22000080

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