Buldoo

9°CCloudy

• Today: 11° / 6° · 47% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 5° · Partly Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:36Sunset 16:20

8h 44m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: St Andrew’s Day, Mon 30 Nov

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

37US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Inverness, United Kingdom

245 reported road collisions (2025)

125 killed or seriously injured · 392 casualties · 10.3 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

1 food businesses within 2 miles

• 0 rated 4–5 ★ (0 top)
• 0 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£224,574 average▲ 7.4% YoY

Across Highland · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Caithness Committee approves six Community Regeneration Fund applications· 2 Nov 2026
• Community Regeneration Funds to help Gairloch’s local newspaper· 2 Nov 2026
• Dr Jean Munro recommended to receive Freedom of Grantown-on-Spey· 2 Nov 2026
• Invitation to pay parking boosts Badenoch and Strathspey Area and Common Good Funds· 2 Nov 2026
• Chief Social Work Officer 2025/26 annual report· 30 Oct 2026

Source: Highland Council

237,260 residents in Highland

• Under 16: 15%
• 16–64: 60%
• 65+: 25%

Source: ONS mid-year estimates (local authority)

Less deprived than the average in Scotland

4% of neighbourhoods are in Scotland’s most deprived 10%; 10% in the most deprived 20%

Source: Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2020

SNP / Independent coalition

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

13,920 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£775 median full-time weekly pay

2.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£24,917 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

• Life satisfaction7.9
• Feeling worthwhile8.1
• Happiness yesterday7.9
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)2.7

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross:

• Hold a referendum on abolishing the Scottish Parliament & Government283 local signatures · 17,029 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately213 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills211 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide
• Hold a UK-wide briefing on climate and nature risks197 local signatures · 127,144 nationwide
• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth119 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Buldoo · 0.0 km

  Buldoo in the far north of Scotland, is a small hamlet 0.5 miles south of Dounreay in Thurso, Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

• RAF Dounreay · 0.4 km

  Was an airfield in Dounreay, UK that opened in April 1944.

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  Dounreay · 1.1 km

  Dounreay is a small settlement and the site of two large nuclear establishments on the north coast of Caithness in the Highland area of Scotland. It is on the A836 road nine miles west of Thurso.

• Dounreay Castle · 1.5 km

  Dounreay Castle is a ruined 16th-century L-plan castle, about 8 miles (13 km) west of Thurso, Highland, Scotland, within the grounds of Dounreay Nuclear Power Development Establishment. It is also known as Dounreay…

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  Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment · 2.0 km

  Vulcan Naval Reactor Test Establishment (NRTE), formerly HMS Vulcan, is a UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) establishment in Scotland, operated by Rolls-Royce Submarines.

• Achreamie · 2.1 km

  Achreamie is a village in the Scottish council area of Highland. Achreamie is about 6 miles (9.7 km) west of Thurso and is less than two miles from the Nuclear Power Development Establishment at Dounreay.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)