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, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 3
- In use before 2020: 228
Of the 231 postcodes in KW17 that ONS places, 3 are new since 2020 and 228 were in use before 2020.
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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. 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; when each came into use: the same directory; 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
The 3 newest postcodes
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).
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.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: 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.
UK postcode format explainedPlaces 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.
Next to KW17
"Next to" is by number: the district before KW17 in the KW area.
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