Map of DG2 8NR postcode

General information

Postcode	DG2 8NR
Post Town	Dumfries
Nearest station	Dumfries (8 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Roads in this postcode	Main Street Old Military Road Steel Avenue
Number of UPRNs	42 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	55.045146
	Longitude	-3.724772
	Easting	289893
	Northing	573654
	Grid reference	NX898736
	UTM reference	30U 453689 6100055
	what3words	twilight.crunching.slanting
	Plus code	9C7R27WG+33
	Altitude	98 metres (322 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	6:31
	Sunset (today)	18:19
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	10.5 KMs (6.5 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	February 2025
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)	55
Households (2011)	30
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	3,998 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Accessible rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00146706
Census output area (2011)	S00097308
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Dalbeattie Rural - 03	S01007546
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Dalbeattie Rural	S02001417
Travel to work area	Dumfries	S22000055

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