Map of KW15 1XN postcode

General information

Postcode	KW15 1XN
Post Town	Kirkwall
Nearest station	Thurso (55 km)
Bus stops	Reid Crescent Path (NW) Fairwinds (N) Otterswick (NE)
Roads in this postcode	Berstane Road Cursiter Crescent
Number of UPRNs	18 View
Businesses	ORKLEAN LTD ORKNEY CHALETS LIMITED ORKNEY SUP LTD

Geography

	Latitude	58.978893
	Longitude	-2.93607
	Easting	346287
	Northing	1010570
	Grid reference	HY462105
	UTM reference	30V 503675 6537703
	what3words	reclusive.simulations.dishing
	Plus code	9CCVX3H7+HH
	Altitude	52 metres (172 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	5:22
	Sunset (today)	20:57
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	1 KMs (0.6 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Kirkwall East	S13003151
Council Area	Orkney Islands	S12000023
Constituency	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

Data

Date introduced	December 1995
Last updated	March 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)	42
Households (2011)	18
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	5,616 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Very remote small town
Census output area (2011)	S00126070
Lower layer super output area (2011)	East Mainland - 04	S01011816
Middle layer super output area (2011)	East Mainland	S02002215
Travel to work area	Orkney Islands	S22000035

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