Map of KW14 8HW postcode

General information

Postcode	KW14 8HW
Post Town	Thurso
Nearest station	Thurso (2 km)
Bus stops	Stroma Road (SW) Dunnet Road (NE)
Number of UPRNs	27 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	58.599335
	Longitude	-3.506067
	Easting	312571
	Northing	968912
	Grid reference	ND125689
	UTM reference	30V 470588 6495550
	what3words	loom.chatted.sage
	FixPhrase	curing lunchroom swimming twine
	Plus code	9CCRHFXV+PH
	Altitude	10 metres (34 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	8:51
	Sunset (today)	15:23
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	0.2 KMs (0.1 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	November 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)	25
Households (2011)	14
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	3,376 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Very remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00162053
Census output area (2011)	1B3
Lower layer super output area (2021)	Caithness North West - 03	S01017970
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Caithness North West - 03	S01010794
Middle layer super output area (2021)	Caithness North West	S02003333
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Caithness North West	S02002030
Travel to work area	Thurso	S22000080

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