Castletown

7°CPartly Cloudy

• Today: 11° / 7° · 54% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 5° · Partly Cloudy

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:34Sunset 16:19

8h 44m of daylight today

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

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

51US AQI · Moderate

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)

15 food businesses within 2 miles

• 7 passed
• 1 need improvement

Source: Food Standards Agency

• 6 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)

5 charging locations within ~8 km

• 1 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 50 kW
• Nearest: Castletown (0.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches1
• Playgrounds2

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

• 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

Jamie Stone

Liberal Democrat

Caithness, Sutherland and Easter Ross

Source: UK Parliament

SNP / Independent coalition

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

• Schools2
• Parks & greens44
• Restaurants & cafés1

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

13,920 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

2 jobs advertised

e.g. Purchasing Specialist, Senior Product Development Engineer

Source: Adzuna

£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

100% low-carbon electricity

Wind 100%

0 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North Scotland · National Grid ESO

• 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

• 
  Castletown, Highland · 0.6 km

  Castletown is a village on the north coast of the Highland council area of Scotland, situated near Dunnet Bay. It is within the civil parish of Olrig, where it is the main settlement, and within the historic county of…

• RAF Castletown · 3.0 km

  Royal Air Force Castletown or more simply RAF Castletown, is a former Royal Air Force satellite station that operated during the Second World War. Built near to Castletown in Caithness, Scotland the station opened in…

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  Murkle · 3.1 km

  Murkle (Murchill) is a small scattered hamlet, made up of East Murkle and West Murkle located one mile (1.6 km) east of Thurso, in Caithness, Scottish Highlands and is in the Scottish council area of Highland.

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  Dunnet Forest · 3.9 km

  Dunnet Forest in Dunnet, Caithness, Scotland, is the most northerly community woodland on the UK mainland, and has been managed since 2003 by Dunnet Forestry Trust.

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  Olrig · 4.0 km

  Olrig is a parish in Caithness, Scotland. The main settlement in the parish is Castletown. Prior to the 19th century, the parish was sub-divided into ten townlands or "fermlands". Townland boundaries were mostly disre…

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  Dunnet Church · 4.2 km

  Dunnet Parish Church is a Church of Scotland church in Dunnet, Caithness, northern Scotland. References to St Mary's Parish Church are known from as far back as the 13th century, and there are pre-16th century gravest…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)