Map of DG8 6RU postcode

General information

Postcode	DG8 6RU
Post Town	Newton Stewart
Nearest station	Barrhill (13 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Roads in this postcode	B7027
Number of UPRNs	7 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	55.00864
	Longitude	-4.639607
	Easting	231298
	Northing	571418
	Grid reference	NX312714
	UTM reference	30U 395144 6096982
	what3words	turned.plums.mistaken
	Plus code	9C7Q2956+F5
	Altitude	94 metres (308 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	6:32
	Sunset (today)	18:24
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	14.2 KMs (8.8 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Mid Galloway and Wigtown West	S13002881
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)	4
Households (2011)	3
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	1,744 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00146442
Census output area (2011)	S00097428
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Machars North - 01	S01007502
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Machars North	S02001410
Travel to work area	Stranraer	S22000079

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