Map of KW15 1UW postcode

General information

Postcode	KW15 1UW
Post Town	Kirkwall
Nearest station	Thurso (54 km)
Bus stops	Soulisquoy Place (E) Pickaquoy Leisure Centre (NW)
Roads in this postcode	Glaitness Road
Number of UPRNs	10 View
Businesses	CRANTIT GATES DEVELOPMENT LIMITED EUGO GAMES LIMITED

Geography

	Latitude	58.978218
	Longitude	-2.976588
	Easting	343957
	Northing	1010528
	Grid reference	HY439105
	UTM reference	30V 501345 6537626
	what3words	eyelid.eyelashes.tops
	Plus code	9CCVX2HF+79
	Altitude	20 metres (65 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	9:07
	Sunset (today)	15:23
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	0.7 KMs (0.4 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	December 2001
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)	14
Households (2011)	9
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	3,074 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Very remote small town
Census output area (2021)	S00170710
Census output area (2011)	S00126089
Lower layer super output area (2011)	West Kirkwall - 03	S01011820
Middle layer super output area (2011)	West Kirkwall	S02002216
Travel to work area	Orkney Islands	S22000035

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