Map of KW15 1GG postcode

General information

Postcode	KW15 1GG
Post Town	Kirkwall
Nearest station	Thurso (55 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Roads in this postcode	Drainshore Drive
Number of UPRNs	10 View
Businesses	R CLOUSTON (SUBSIDIARY) LTD R. CLOUSTON (HOLDINGS) LTD. R. CLOUSTON LTD.

Geography

	Latitude	58.993723
	Longitude	-2.975856
	Easting	344024
	Northing	1012254
	Grid reference	HY440122
	UTM reference	30V 501387 6539353
	what3words	kickers.founding.cherished
	Plus code	9CCVX2VF+FM
	Altitude	6 metres (20 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	9:07
	Sunset (today)	15:20
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	0.3 KMs (0.2 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Kirkwall West and Orphir	S13003152
Council Area	Orkney Islands	S12000023
Constituency (2024)	Orkney and Shetland	S14000051
MP	Mr Alistair Carmichael	Liberal Democrat
Police force	Scotland
Water company	Scottish Water
NUTS/ITL 3	Orkney Islands
NUTS/ITL 2	Highlands and Islands
NUTS/ITL 1	Scotland
Country	Scotland	S92000003

Data

Date introduced	October 2005
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

Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	4,836 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Very remote small town
Census output area (2021)	S00170662
Census output area (2011)	S00125911
Lower layer super output area (2011)	East Mainland - 05	S01011817
Middle layer super output area (2011)	East Mainland	S02002215
Travel to work area	Orkney Islands	S22000035

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