Map of KW14 8UW postcode

General information

Postcode	KW14 8UW
Post Town	Thurso
Nearest station	Thurso (8 km)
Bus stops	Primary School (NE)
Roads in this postcode	Churchill Place Churchill Road
Number of UPRNs	19 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	58.592193
	Longitude	-3.38309
	Easting	319701
	Northing	967963
	Grid reference	ND197679
	UTM reference	30V 477730 6494707
	what3words	turntable.hurray.hers
	FixPhrase	curing lung suggest trimming
	Plus code	9CCRHJR8+VQ
	Altitude	19 metres (62 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	8:48
	Sunset (today)	16:01
	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
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	December 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 (2017-2020)	1,838 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Very remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00162115
Census output area (2011)	S00119035
Lower layer super output area (2021)	Caithness North West - 01	S01017968
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Caithness North West - 01	S01010792
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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