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Orkney Islands

Nation: Scotland · Area code S12000023

Every figure the hub holds for Orkney Islands from its datasets by area, each as its publisher gives it. Where a dataset's chart compares two periods, its card shows both, drawn to scale, and every figure is in the table below the cards. Each card opens its dataset's page, with its source, licence and checks.

Economy

1 dataset

Median income of taxpayers by council, UK

£29,400

2023/24

HM Revenue and Customs

Energy and environment

1 dataset

Greenhouse gas emissions by council, UK

343.6 ktCO₂e

2024

  • 2024 343.6 ktCO₂e
  • 2023 345.5 ktCO₂e
Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Housing

1 dataset

Average house price by council, UK

£216,479

Aug 2026

  • Aug 2026 £216,479
  • Aug 2025 £218,999
HM Land Registry (UK HPI, with ONS, Registers of Scotland and LPS)

Labour market

7 datasets

Claimant count, the UK's councils

205

Sep 2026

  • Sep 2026 205
  • Sep 2025 200
Office for National Statistics

Disability employment gap by council, UK

45.06 percentage points

2021 to 2023

  • 2021 to 2023 45.06 percentage points
  • 2020 to 2022 41.18 percentage points
Department for Work and Pensions

Disability employment rate by council, UK

50.60%

2021 to 2023

  • 2021 to 2023 50.60%
  • 2020 to 2022 49.64%
Department for Work and Pensions

Disabled people aged 16 to 64 by council, UK

2,484

2021 to 2023

  • 2021 to 2023 2,484
  • 2020 to 2022 1,670
Department for Work and Pensions

Disabled people in work by council, UK

1,257

2021 to 2023

  • 2021 to 2023 1,257
  • 2020 to 2022 829
Department for Work and Pensions

Median weekly pay, Great Britain's councils

£719.60

2026

Office for National Statistics

Non-disabled employment rate by council, UK

95.66%

2021 to 2023

  • 2021 to 2023 95.66%
  • 2020 to 2022 90.82%
Department for Work and Pensions

Transport

1 dataset

Motor vehicle traffic by highway authority, Great Britain

99 million vehicle miles

2025

  • 2025 99 million vehicle miles
  • 2024 96 million vehicle miles
Department for Transport

Welfare and benefits

6 datasets

Children in Tax-Free Childcare by council, UK

140

2025/26

  • 2025/26 140
  • 2023/24 130
HM Revenue and Customs

Children in low income families by council, UK

12.20%

2024/25

  • 2024/25 12.20%
  • 2023/24 10.70%
Department for Work and Pensions

Families getting Child Benefit by council, UK

1,930

Aug 2025

HM Revenue and Customs

Families using Tax-Free Childcare by council, UK

125

2025/26

  • 2025/26 125
  • 2023/24 110
HM Revenue and Customs

Households eligible for Pension Credit by council, Great Britain

2023/24

  • All eligible households 1,000
  • Potentially eligible households 600
  • Eligible households in receipt 500
Department for Work and Pensions

Pension Credit receipt rate by council, Great Britain

44.43%

2023/24

Department for Work and Pensions

Population

1 dataset

Population of the UK's councils

21,920

Mid-2025

  • Mid-2025 21,920
  • Mid-2024 22,000
Office for National Statistics

Every figure as a table

18 datasets · area code S12000023
DatasetLatestFigureBeforeFigure
Median income of taxpayers by council, UKEconomy2023/24£29,400In order––
Greenhouse gas emissions by council, UKEnergy and environment2024343.6 ktCO₂eIn order2023345.5 ktCO₂e
Average house price by council, UKHousingAug 2026£216,479In orderAug 2025£218,999
Claimant count, the UK's councilsLabour marketSep 2026205In orderSep 2025200
Disability employment gap by council, UKLabour market2021 to 202345.06 percentage points2020 to 202241.18 percentage points
Disability employment rate by council, UKLabour market2021 to 202350.60%2020 to 202249.64%
Disabled people aged 16 to 64 by council, UKLabour market2021 to 20232,4842020 to 20221,670
Disabled people in work by council, UKLabour market2021 to 20231,2572020 to 2022829
Median weekly pay, Great Britain's councilsLabour market2026£719.60In order––
Non-disabled employment rate by council, UKLabour market2021 to 202395.66%2020 to 202290.82%
Population of the UK's councilsPopulationMid-202521,920In orderMid-202422,000
Motor vehicle traffic by highway authority, Great BritainTransport202599 million vehicle milesIn order202496 million vehicle miles
Children in Tax-Free Childcare by council, UKWelfare and benefits2025/26140In order2023/24130
Children in low income families by council, UKWelfare and benefits2024/2512.20%In order2023/2410.70%
Families getting Child Benefit by council, UKWelfare and benefitsAug 20251,930In order––
Families using Tax-Free Childcare by council, UKWelfare and benefits2025/26125In order2023/24110
Households eligible for Pension Credit by council, Great Britain: All eligible householdsWelfare and benefits2023/241,000––
Households eligible for Pension Credit by council, Great Britain: Potentially eligible householdsWelfare and benefits2023/24600––
Households eligible for Pension Credit by council, Great Britain: Eligible households in receiptWelfare and benefits2023/24500––
Pension Credit receipt rate by council, Great BritainWelfare and benefits2023/2444.43%In order––

Wards

6 wards, 6 of them current

Each dataset gives its figures on its publisher's own year of wards, which councils redraw some of every May, and the hub never moves a figure onto another year's wards: a ward that has ended since keeps its figures, one that began after a dataset's year shows – for it, and one its publisher gives no figure for shows not published.

WardChildren in low income families by ward, before housing costs, UK2024/25 · May 2024 wardsFamilies getting Child Benefit by ward, UKAug 2025 · May 2025 wards
East Mainland, South Ronaldsay and Burray S130031507.80%325
Kirkwall East S130031519.62%450
Kirkwall West and Orphir S1300315211.83%415
North Isles S1300273723.55%175
Stromness and South Isles S1300273414.00%195
West Mainland S130027358.16%370

Small areas

38 small areas in 3 datasets

Each dataset gives its figures on its own file's areas and edition (LSOAs and MSOAs of 2011 or 2021, data zones), and the hub never moves a figure onto another's areas. An area is listed here where the ONS's output area lookups, or for Scotland and Northern Ireland the area register, put it in this council.

Every figure here is in this council's small areas file (JSON), and each dataset's whole file is on its page.

Traffic count points

Traffic at each count point, Great Britain, 2025

DfT's annual average daily flow of motor vehicles past each count point, both ways, on an average day of the year: counted where DfT counted it that year, estimated from earlier counts and traffic trends otherwise, which DfT says should be used with caution. Each point stands for its road between the two junctions named.

  • 53 to 425
  • 425 to 703
  • 703 to 1,957
  • 1,957 to 4,221
  • 4,221 to 11k

Every count point as a table

the busiest first
Road and count pointBetweenRoad categoryCounted or estimated2025
A963 20993A964 to A963 Pickaquoy RdClass A Principal roadEstimated10,684 vehicles a day
A963 74271A963 to A965Class A Principal roadEstimated7,645 vehicles a day
A965 74270A963 to A960Class A Principal roadEstimated7,591 vehicles a day
A960 20992A962 to A961Class A Principal roadEstimated6,383 vehicles a day
A963 40997A963 Pickaquoy Rd to A960/A965Class A Principal roadEstimated4,619 vehicles a day
A965 40998A966 to A963Class A Principal roadEstimated4,392 vehicles a day
A963 80317A961 to A964Class A Principal roadEstimated4,221 vehicles a day
A965 20994A986 to A966Class A Principal roadEstimated3,884 vehicles a day
A965 1184A967 to A964Class A Principal roadCounted3,855 vehicles a day
A961 1182B9052 to A963Class A Principal roadEstimated3,052 vehicles a day
A965 50855A964 to B9055Class A Principal roadEstimated3,003 vehicles a day
A965 10997B9055 to A986Class A Principal roadEstimated2,778 vehicles a day
A961 74269A963 to A960Class A Principal roadEstimated2,252 vehicles a day
C 812138NA to NAClass C road or Unclassified roadCounted2,024 vehicles a day
A964 10996B9053 to A963Class A Principal roadEstimated1,957 vehicles a day
A961 80318B9044 to B9052Class A Principal roadEstimated1,654 vehicles a day
A986 11008A965 to B9057Class A Principal roadEstimated1,586 vehicles a day
A964 30998B9053 to A965Class A Principal roadEstimated1,375 vehicles a day
A960 40996A961 to B9052Class A Principal roadEstimated1,056 vehicles a day
A967 1185A965 to B9056Class A Principal roadEstimated927 vehicles a day
A986 41010B9057 to A967Class A Principal roadEstimated866 vehicles a day
A960 10994B9052 to B9050Class A Principal roadEstimated703 vehicles a day
A967 10998B9055 to B9057Class A Principal roadEstimated658 vehicles a day
U 811596NA to NAClass C road or Unclassified roadCounted654 vehicles a day
A967 31000B9056 to B9055Class A Principal roadEstimated583 vehicles a day
A966 40999A965 to B9057Class A Principal roadEstimated577 vehicles a day
A965 30999end of A-road status, south Stromness to A967Class A Principal roadEstimated574 vehicles a day
A967 50852B9056 to A966Class A Principal roadEstimated511 vehicles a day
A961 10995end of road, Burwick to B9044Class A Principal roadEstimated478 vehicles a day
A960 50857A963/A965 to A962Class A Principal roadEstimated425 vehicles a day
A967 20996A986 to B9056Class A Principal roadEstimated399 vehicles a day
A967 41000B9057 to A986Class A Principal roadCounted388 vehicles a day
A966 50853road to Mount Misery to A967Class A Principal roadEstimated286 vehicles a day
U 811942NA to NAClass C road or Unclassified roadCounted221 vehicles a day
U 811278NA to NAClass C road or Unclassified roadCounted140 vehicles a day
A966 20995B9057 to A967Class A Principal roadEstimated127 vehicles a day
U 811368NA to NAClass C road or Unclassified roadEstimated53 vehicles a day