Map of KW15 1RG postcode

General information

Postcode	KW15 1RG
Post Town	Kirkwall
Nearest station	Thurso (55 km)
Bus stops	Orcadian Office (SW)
Roads in this postcode	Crowness Crescent Crowness Place Crowness Road Drainshore Drive Grainshore Road
Number of UPRNs	29 View
Businesses	BRIAN WILSON (ORKNEY) LIMITED LEASK MARINE (DIVING) LTD. LEASK MARINE LIMITED MCADIE & REEVE LIMITED ORKNEY CHEESE COMPANY LIMITED ORKNEY FACTORS LIMITED ORKNEY MECHANICAL SERVICES LIMITED ROBERTSONS-ORKNEY LIMITED STEVEN R PATERSON LIMITED

Geography

	Latitude	58.993091
	Longitude	-2.973024
	Easting	344186
	Northing	1012181
	Grid reference	HY441121
	UTM reference	30V 501550 6539283
	what3words	waged.bidder.ample
	Plus code	9CCVX2VG+6Q
	Altitude	5 metres (17 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	6:23
	Sunset (today)	18:19
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	0.4 KMs (0.3 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Kirkwall West and Orphir	S13003152
Council Area	Orkney Islands	S12000023
Constituency (2024)	Orkney and Shetland	S14000051
MP	Mr Alistair Carmichael	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	February 1993
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

Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	4,836 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Very remote small town
Census output area (2021)	S00170662
Census output area (2011)	S00125911
Lower layer super output area (2011)	East Mainland - 05	S01011817
Middle layer super output area (2011)	East Mainland	S02002215
Travel to work area	Orkney Islands	S22000035

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