Map of KW12 6XS postcode

General information

Postcode	KW12 6XS
Post Town	Halkirk
Nearest station	Georgemas Junction (2 km)
Bus stops	Sinclair Square (E) Mace Shop (W) Mace Shop (E)
Roads in this postcode	Sinclair Lane
Number of UPRNs	28 View
Businesses	MOK SECURITY SOLUTIONS LTD

Geography

	Latitude	58.513652
	Longitude	-3.488669
	Easting	313371
	Northing	959350
	Grid reference	ND133593
	UTM reference	30V 471530 6486002
	what3words	evaporate.shark.stiff
	Plus code	9CCRGG76+FG
	Altitude	41 metres (134 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	6:37
	Sunset (today)	18:12
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	9.5 KMs (5.9 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Thurso and Northwest Caithness	S13002991
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)	52
Households (2011)	23
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	4,677 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Very remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00162176
Census output area (2011)	S00118966
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Caithness North West - 04	S01010795
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Caithness North West	S02002030
Travel to work area	Thurso	S22000080

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