Map of KW15 1FP postcode

General information

Postcode	KW15 1FP
Post Town	Kirkwall
Nearest station	Thurso (53 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Roads in this postcode	Sunnybank Road
Number of UPRNs	17 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	58.986321
	Longitude	-2.999768
	Easting	342638
	Northing	1011450
	Grid reference	HY426114
	UTM reference	30V 500013 6538528
	what3words	nibbles.torso.sounds
	FixPhrase	curling lurk styling tubeless
	Plus code	9CCVX2P2+G3
	Altitude	89 metres (293 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:43
	Sunset (today)	16:10
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	1.6 KMs (1 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	Highlands and Islands
NUTS/ITL 2	Highlands and Islands
NUTS/ITL 1	Scotland
Country	Scotland	S92000003

Data

Date introduced	December 1996
Last updated	September 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)	42
Households (2011)	14
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	4,836 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Very remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00170654
Census output area (2011)	6A2
Lower layer super output area (2011)	East Mainland - 05	S01011817
Middle layer super output area (2011)	East Mainland	S02002215
Travel to work area	Orkney Islands	S22000035

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