Map of KW16 3HB postcode

General information

Postcode	KW16 3HB
Post Town	Stromness
Nearest station	Thurso (44 km)
Bus stops	Clestrain Junction (S)
Roads in this postcode	A964 Germiston Road Scorradale Road
Number of UPRNs	9 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	58.947891
	Longitude	-3.217696
	Easting	330035
	Northing	1007379
	Grid reference	HY300073
	UTM reference	30V 487473 6534270
	what3words	backlog.arrow.soups
	Plus code	9CCRWQXJ+5W
	Altitude	33 metres (108 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	6:30
	Sunset (today)	18:15
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	1.1 KMs (0.7 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	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)	7
Households (2011)	3
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	5,424 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Very remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00170665
Census output area (2011)	S00125926
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Stromness, Sandwick and Stenness - 04	S01011807
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Stromness, Sandwick and Stenness	S02002213
Travel to work area	Orkney Islands	S22000035

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