KW17 postcode district: Orkney Islands

KW17 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 231 postcodes in use in 1 sector. Its council is Orkney Islands.

Postcodes in use
231
Sectors
1
Council
Orkney Islands
Places
None listed

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in KW17, by gigabit broadband

Map of every postcode in KW17, by gigabit broadband Of the 231 postcodes in KW17 that ONS places, 79 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 119 have some that can and 33 can all get it. 3 groups of postcodes without gigabit are outlined: 13 postcodes without gigabit; 10 postcodes without gigabit; 8 postcodes without gigabit. Places named: Kirkwall, Stromness. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 10 km. 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Places named: Kirkwall, Stromness. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 10 km. KirkwallStromness 10 postcodes without gigabit, outlined: this goes to KW17 2TS, the one nearest the middle of them10 postcodes without gigabit8 postcodes without gigabit, outlined: this goes to KW17 2TX, the one nearest the middle of them8 postcodes without gigabit
  • No home or business can get gigabit: 79
  • Some can get gigabit: 119
  • Every home and business can get gigabit: 33
  • Ofcom gives no figure: 0
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 231 postcodes in KW17 that ONS places, 79 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 119 have some that can and 33 can all get it.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 600 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 59.0353, longitude -3.0097. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Postcodes without gigabit

79 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

KW17 2APKW17 2AUKW17 2AWKW17 2AXKW17 2BDKW17 2BEKW17 2BGKW17 2BUKW17 2BZKW17 2DGKW17 2DJKW17 2EE

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

  • 13 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. KW17 2UB, is the one nearest the middle of them.
  • 10 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. KW17 2TS, is the one nearest the middle of them.
  • 8 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. KW17 2TX, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in KW17?

Ofcom reports on 231 of the 231 postcodes in KW17. At 33 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 25 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit33 of 231
Postcodes where every home can get superfast107 of 231
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband25 of 231

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

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Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Postcodes in KW17

Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.

KW17 2231 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in KW17

We list no town or village for KW17. A place gets a page here only when enough postcodes are in one: a town or village here is a built-up area named by the Office for National Statistics in England and Wales, or a census locality named by National Records of Scotland. Every KW17 postcode is here, under its sector above.

Who covers KW17

How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.

Councils

What council am I in?

Constituencies

  • Orkney and Shetland231

Police force areas

  • Scotland231

Next to KW17

KW16 postcode district All KW districts

"Next to" is by number: the district before KW17 in the KW area.

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