Map of KW5 6DG postcode

General information

Postcode	KW5 6DG
Post Town	Latheron
Nearest station	Wick (22 km)
Bus stops	Niandt Road End (SW)
Roads in this postcode	A9 A99 Quatre Bras
Number of UPRNs	66 View
Businesses	COWIE ENGINEERING HIGHLANDS LIMITED

Geography

	Latitude	58.28831
	Longitude	-3.344419
	Easting	321273
	Northing	934085
	Grid reference	ND212340
	UTM reference	30V 479805 6460860
	what3words	pirate.musician.treatable
	FixPhrase	curdle lung subplot umbilical
	Plus code	9CCR7MQ4+86
	Altitude	67 metres (220 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:20
	Sunset (today)	16:36
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	1.2 KMs (0.7 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	January 1980
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)	86
Households (2011)	26
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	2,298 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Very remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00162271
Census output area (2011)	1C1
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Caithness South - 01	S01010772
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Caithness South	S02002026
Travel to work area	Wick	S22000083

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