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 400-450 of 734 active postcodes in Orkney Islands
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
KW16 3DD Stromness and South Isles 58.95970600 -3.30118700
KW16 3DE Stromness and South Isles 58.95978200 -3.30160000
KW16 3DF Stromness and South Isles 58.95847700 -3.30100200
KW16 3DG Stromness and South Isles 58.95887700 -3.30144400
KW16 3DH Stromness and South Isles 58.95771300 -3.30194700
KW16 3DJ Stromness and South Isles 58.95727900 -3.30133900
KW16 3DL Stromness and South Isles 58.95570500 -3.30072300
KW16 3DN Stromness and South Isles 58.95443300 -3.30038000
KW16 3DP Stromness and South Isles 58.95487100 -3.30144000
KW16 3DQ Stromness and South Isles 58.95812800 -3.30180600
KW16 3DR Stromness and South Isles 58.95585900 -3.30326700
KW16 3DS Stromness and South Isles 58.95643500 -3.30318500
KW16 3DT Stromness and South Isles 58.95768600 -3.30373600
KW16 3DU Stromness and South Isles 58.96027600 -3.30433800
KW16 3DW Stromness and South Isles 58.95310600 -3.29925200
KW16 3DX Stromness and South Isles 58.96180400 -3.30514400
KW16 3DY Stromness and South Isles 58.96041100 -3.30257000
KW16 3DZ Stromness and South Isles 58.96101200 -3.30175800
KW16 3EA Stromness and South Isles 58.96118500 -3.30148600
KW16 3EB Stromness and South Isles 58.95979500 -3.30032100
KW16 3ED Stromness and South Isles 58.95868200 -3.30118300
KW16 3EE Stromness and South Isles 58.96683700 -3.28317100
KW16 3EF Stromness and South Isles 58.96767900 -3.28255900
KW16 3EH Stromness and South Isles 58.96152400 -3.30344700
KW16 3EJ Stromness and South Isles 58.95690700 -3.30445400
KW16 3EL Stromness and South Isles 58.95592900 -3.30429600
KW16 3EP Stromness and South Isles 58.96551600 -3.29951100
KW16 3EQ Stromness and South Isles 58.95793300 -3.30502500
KW16 3ER Stromness and South Isles 58.96968300 -3.28873800
KW16 3EU Stromness and South Isles 58.97706600 -3.28868300
KW16 3EX Stromness and South Isles 58.98090400 -3.28394500
KW16 3EY West Mainland 58.97609600 -3.24004500
KW16 3EZ West Mainland 58.97244700 -3.22232900
KW16 3HA West Mainland 58.95831300 -3.22484400
KW16 3HB Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.94789100 -3.21769600
KW16 3HD Kirkwall West and Orphir 58.96217500 -3.11357700
KW16 3HE West Mainland 58.98734000 -3.14447500
KW16 3HF West Mainland 58.99411000 -3.15783900
KW16 3HG West Mainland 59.00272500 -3.17355200
KW16 3HH West Mainland 58.99321400 -3.17863400
KW16 3HJ Stromness and South Isles 58.97316300 -3.29198900
KW16 3HQ West Mainland 58.99917100 -3.17724300
KW16 3HR Stromness and South Isles 58.97370700 -3.29320900
KW16 3HS Stromness and South Isles 58.97313800 -3.29895500
KW16 3HT Stromness and South Isles 58.97724700 -3.29937100
KW16 3HU Stromness and South Isles 58.99881600 -3.30342900
KW16 3HX West Mainland 59.01478500 -3.30250000
KW16 3HY West Mainland 59.01725900 -3.26586400
KW16 3HZ West Mainland 59.03307500 -3.29236200
KW16 3JA West Mainland 59.03032500 -3.26327700
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