Map of PA42 7BW postcode

General information

Postcode	PA42 7BW
Post Town	Isle of Islay
Nearest station	West Kilbride (84 km)
Bus stops	Baptist Church (NE)
Roads in this postcode	Lennox Street Texa Crescent
Number of UPRNs	29 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	55.629514
	Longitude	-6.18228
	Easting	136846
	Northing	645264
	Grid reference	NR368452
	UTM reference	29U 677386 6168448
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	Plus code	9C7MJRH9+R3
	Altitude	6 metres (20 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:33
	Sunset (today)	16:45
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	0.2 KMs (0.1 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Kintyre and the Islands	S13002517
Council Area	Argyll and Bute	S12000035
Constituency (2024)	Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber	S14000067
MP	Brendan O'Hara	Scottish National Party
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)	37
Households (2011)	16
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	3,897 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Very remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00141096
Census output area (2011)	8C2
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Whisky Isles - 05	S01007328
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Whisky Isles	S02001378
Travel to work area	Mull and Islay	S22000032

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