Map of KW1 5XX postcode

General information

Postcode	KW1 5XX
Post Town	Wick
Nearest station	Georgemas Junction (7 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Roads in this postcode	B870
Number of UPRNs	33 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	58.467437
	Longitude	-3.365567
	Easting	320438
	Northing	954052
	Grid reference	ND204540
	UTM reference	30V 478674 6480811
	what3words	limits.publisher.imitate
	Plus code	9CCRFJ8M+XQ
	Altitude	81 metres (265 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	6:36
	Sunset (today)	18:11
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	14.3 KMs (8.9 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	February 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)	17
Households (2011)	6
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	3,994 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Very remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00162187
Census output area (2011)	S00117678
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Caithness North West - 05	S01010796
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Caithness North West	S02002030
Travel to work area	Thurso	S22000080

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