Map of KW15 1XZ postcode

General information

Postcode	KW15 1XZ
Post Town	Kirkwall
Nearest station	Thurso (57 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Number of UPRNs	5 View
Businesses	THOR & FREYA OF ORKNEY LTD

Geography

	Latitude	59.00101
	Longitude	-2.941671
	Easting	346000
	Northing	1013037
	Grid reference	HY459130
	UTM reference	30V 503351 6540165
	what3words	irritated.printing.woodstove
	Plus code	9CFV2325+C8
	Altitude	9 metres (28 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	6:29
	Sunset (today)	18:14
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	0.2 KMs (0.1 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Kirkwall East	S13003151
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	December 2019
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)	5,616 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Very remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00170649
Census output area (2011)	S00125921
Lower layer super output area (2011)	East Mainland - 04	S01011816
Middle layer super output area (2011)	East Mainland	S02002215
Travel to work area	Orkney Islands	S22000035

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