Map of DG7 1PL postcode

General information

Postcode	DG7 1PL
Post Town	Castle Douglas
Nearest station	Dumfries (25 km)
Bus stops	Village (SW) Barlochan (SW) Barlochan (NE)
Roads in this postcode	Riverside Drive
Number of UPRNs	20 View
Businesses	WALLACE ROAD TANKS LTD.

Geography

	Latitude	54.892199
	Longitude	-3.838689
	Easting	282168
	Northing	556822
	Grid reference	NX821568
	UTM reference	30U 446207 6083117
	what3words	wiggling.wages.binder
	Plus code	9C6RV5R6+VG
	Altitude	13 metres (44 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	8:30
	Sunset (today)	16:21
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	1.2 KMs (0.8 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)	54
Households (2011)	20
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	4,560 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00147192
Census output area (2011)	S00097337
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Castle Douglas - 05	S01007538
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Castle Douglas	S02001415
Travel to work area	Dalbeattie and Castle Douglas	S22000053

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