Postcodes in Orkney Islands District

Facts Checked By Data Team - Written By Mallika Basu - Reviewed By Jonathan Benton

This article covers information about postcodes in Orkney Islands's local authority district. Orkney Islands district is further divided into 6 Wards.

Below is a complete list of Orkney Islands Postcodes, it has 734 active postcodes. Orkney Islands contains approximately 9698 residential properties with a population of about 21278.

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Orkney Islands Postcode and Census - Statistical Overview


Population 21278
Addresses / Property Count 9698
Active Postcodes 734
No Of Wards in Orkney Islands 6

What is a District

The United Kingdom is primarily divided into large area blocks called Counties. A district is an administrative block in the UK and part of a County council area. The district is also the second-largest administrative block in the UK after counties. These are also known as local authority districts and are different from city districts. Orkney Islands is a local authority district in county. Districts are majorly categorized into 4 types namely:

  • Non-Metropolitan districts
  • Unitary authority areas
  • Metropolitan boroughs
  • London boroughs

Sub Divisions Of a district

Districts are subdivided into different local administrative blocks. Other categories of local administrative blocks that comes under district authority are as follows:

  • Parish
  • Wards
  • Cities

Wards in Orkney Islands

There are 6 wards in the district. Below is a list of the wards. You can click on any ward link to view the postcodes of that ward.

Stromness and South Isles West Mainland North Isles East Mainland, South Ronaldsay and Burray Kirkwall East Kirkwall West and Orphir

View Map Of Orkney Islands Wards


This map shows all wards in the district of Orkney Islands, zoom to view all the pointers. If you click on any pointer you can see the ward name. Below the ward name, you can see a link called view postcodes. Click on the link to see the postcodes for that ward.

List of Orkney Islands postcodes


showing 250-300 of 734 active postcodes in Orkney Islands
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
KW15 1SG Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.95048100 -3.03140900
KW15 1SH Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.97728600 -2.97156900
KW15 1SJ Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.97193900 -2.97296100
KW15 1SL Kirkwall East 58.96934400 -2.95236700
KW15 1SN Kirkwall East 58.97420200 -2.95131800
KW15 1SP Kirkwall East 58.97135900 -2.94463100
KW15 1SQ Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.97676700 -2.96987900
KW15 1SR Kirkwall East 58.96837100 -2.93561000
KW15 1SS Kirkwall East 58.95922500 -2.93502000
KW15 1ST Kirkwall East 58.94885600 -2.95285000
KW15 1SU Kirkwall East 58.96684000 -2.95239000
KW15 1SW Kirkwall East 58.97276400 -2.95013100
KW15 1SX Kirkwall East 58.95261700 -2.96031900
KW15 1SY Kirkwall East 58.96308300 -2.95273800
KW15 1SZ Kirkwall East 58.97862700 -2.93686300
KW15 1TA Kirkwall East 58.97414800 -2.93551100
KW15 1TB Kirkwall East 58.98658400 -2.93060600
KW15 1TD Kirkwall East 58.98971300 -2.94621200
KW15 1TE Kirkwall East 58.99583400 -2.94563200
KW15 1TF Kirkwall East 58.96980900 -2.95144000
KW15 1TG Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.98244000 -2.96181000
KW15 1TH Kirkwall East 58.95374300 -2.90246500
KW15 1TJ Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.97702000 -2.97447900
KW15 1TL Kirkwall East 58.97807100 -2.94048300
KW15 1TN Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.97822200 -2.97352100
KW15 1TP Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.98457000 -2.99501400
KW15 1TQ Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.98055000 -2.96234900
KW15 1TR Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.97815000 -3.01464800
KW15 1TS West Mainland 58.98847900 -3.06261400
KW15 1TT West Mainland 58.99552100 -3.09368100
KW15 1TU West Mainland 59.00144700 -3.09405200
KW15 1TW Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.97732500 -2.98303400
KW15 1TX West Mainland 58.99360000 -3.05237400
KW15 1TY Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.99870000 -3.01199200
KW15 1TZ Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.99151600 -2.98980200
KW15 1UA Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.98725400 -2.98094500
KW15 1UB Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.99189400 -2.98965600
KW15 1UD Kirkwall East 58.97948000 -2.94184400
KW15 1UE Kirkwall East 58.99819100 -2.94254600
KW15 1UF Kirkwall East 58.99568100 -2.92850700
KW15 1UG Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.98467200 -2.97828500
KW15 1UH Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.98520200 -2.97581200
KW15 1UJ Kirkwall East 58.99352700 -2.94043500
KW15 1UL Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.98659500 -2.98150000
KW15 1UN Kirkwall East 58.97707200 -2.94931000
KW15 1UP Kirkwall East 58.97307600 -2.95173900
KW15 1UQ Kirkwall East 58.97368000 -2.95142500
KW15 1UR Kirkwall East 58.97405900 -2.95241000
KW15 1US Kirkwall East 58.97239100 -2.95210300
KW15 1UT Kirkwall East 58.97753900 -2.94573900
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