Report Summary
This report summarises the work of the SPA and Police Scotland's Community Confidence Action Research Project in Wick.
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About Wick
Wick is a coastal town in the Highland Council area of Scotland and is one of the main settlements in Caithness. It is an area within the North regional command of Police Scotland and is part of Highland and Islands Division. It is classified as a remote small town.
Wick comprises two intermediate datazones, Wick South and Wick North.
These two intermediate datazones had a total estimated population of 6,578 (NRS, 2021) as of 2021.
Wick South is more deprived than Wick North according to the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020. Wick South has an estimated population of 3,420 and consists of six smaller datazones, three of which are among Scotland’s most 15% deprived.
Although Wick South has been the main focus for this piece of research, Wick and the broader Caithness area became the focus of the Project’s research footprint, following early discussions with local people, who felt that many people across Caithness regularly visit and connect with Wick.
For clarity all socio-economic statistics in this report refer to the Intermediate Datazone of “Wick South”. Police Scotland Crime and Incident data relates to Beat NJ002 which includes Wick but extends across the east coast of Caithness and incorporates John o’Groats.
