Map of KW3 6BQ postcode

General information

Postcode	KW3 6BQ
Post Town	Lybster
Nearest station	Wick (19 km)
Bus stops	Harbour Road End (N) Primary School (S)
Roads in this postcode	Althorpe Court Althorpe Street Main Street
Number of UPRNs	7 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	58.301947
	Longitude	-3.285726
	Easting	324743
	Northing	935536
	Grid reference	ND247355
	UTM reference	30V 483253 6462363
	what3words	physics.proudest.deranged
	FixPhrase	cure lurch sardine vocalist
	Plus code	9CCR8P27+QP
	Altitude	62 metres (205 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	8:48
	Sunset (today)	15:24
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	1.2 KMs (0.8 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Wick and East Caithness	S13002992
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	December 1995
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)	6
Households (2011)	5
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	1,416 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Very remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00162277
Census output area (2011)	1B3
Lower layer super output area (2021)	Caithness South - 03	S01017950
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Caithness South - 03	S01010774
Middle layer super output area (2021)	Caithness South	S02003329
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Caithness South	S02002026
Travel to work area	Wick	S22000083

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