Buldoo

9°CPatchy rain nearby

• Today: 15° / 8° · 31% rain
• Tomorrow: 17° / 11° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:38Sunset 19:43

13h 5m of daylight today

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

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

39US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Inverness, United Kingdom

273 reported road collisions (2024)

167 killed or seriously injured · 405 casualties · 11.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

4 food businesses within 2 miles

• 2 passed
• 0 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 0 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£221,000 average▲ 4.8% YoY

Across Highland · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

• Celebrating adult learning and marking International Literacy Day· 11 Sept 2026
• Highland Council welcomes funding boost to support households struggling with fuel costs· 9 Sept 2026
• From Small Beginnings to Award Winning Community-Owned Radio Station· 9 Sept 2026
• Temporary traffic management measures on Staffin Road, Portree· 8 Sept 2026
• Interim Community Council Elections – Close of Nominations· 8 Sept 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

• Lab 2
• Con 6
• LD 15
• Grn 3
• Oth 18

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

13,785 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

£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:

• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership362 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Do not ban social media for under 16s296 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office271 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills210 local signatures · 110,383 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test154 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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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)