Map of DG2 8JL postcode

General information

Postcode	DG2 8JL
Post Town	Dumfries
Nearest station	Dumfries (12 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Roads in this postcode	Craignair Road
Number of UPRNs	8 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	54.99809
	Longitude	-3.744155
	Easting	288524
	Northing	568449
	Grid reference	NX885684
	UTM reference	30U 452395 6094832
	what3words	recap.hunter.miss
	Plus code	9C6RX7X4+68
	Altitude	89 metres (291 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	8:41
	Sunset (today)	15:58
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	10.7 KMs (6.7 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Castle Douglas and Crocketford	S13002883
Council Area	Dumfries and Galloway	S12000006
Constituency (2024)	Dumfries and Galloway	S14000073
MP	John Cooper	Conservative
Police force	Scotland
Water company	Scottish Water
NUTS/ITL 3	Dumfries and Galloway
NUTS/ITL 2	Southern Scotland
NUTS/ITL 1	Scotland
Country	Scotland	S92000003

Data

Date introduced	January 1980
Last updated	December 2024
User type	Small (addresses receive less than 25 items of mail per day)
Quality	Within the building of the matched address closest to the postcode mean

Demographics

Population (2011)	5
Households (2011)	2
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	2,826 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Accessible rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00146753
Census output area (2011)	S00098304
Lower layer super output area (2011)	New Abbey - 03	S01007595
Middle layer super output area (2011)	New Abbey	S02001426
Travel to work area	Dumfries	S22000055

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