Map of KW15 1SY postcode

General information

Postcode	KW15 1SY
Post Town	Kirkwall
Nearest station	Thurso (53 km)
Bus stops	Heathery Loan West End (N)
Roads in this postcode	A961 Churchill Barrier No 3 Heathery Loan
Number of UPRNs	26 View
Businesses	REVELRY LIMITED

Geography

	Latitude	58.963083
	Longitude	-2.952738
	Easting	345304
	Northing	1008823
	Grid reference	HY453088
	UTM reference	30V 502718 6535942
	what3words	poet.sneezing.plotted
	Plus code	9CCVX27W+6W
	Altitude	79 metres (258 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	6:20
	Sunset (today)	18:21
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	1.1 KMs (0.7 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Kirkwall East	S13003151
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	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)	32
Households (2011)	17
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	4,373 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Very remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00170656
Census output area (2011)	S00125917
Lower layer super output area (2011)	East Mainland - 01	S01011813
Middle layer super output area (2011)	East Mainland	S02002215
Travel to work area	Orkney Islands	S22000035

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