Map of DG2 8RA postcode

General information

Postcode	DG2 8RA
Post Town	Dumfries
Nearest station	Dumfries (15 km)
Bus stops	Village (SW)
Roads in this postcode	A712 A75 Castle Douglas Road Maiden Row Ottersburn Way
Number of UPRNs	57 View
Businesses	THE ALEXANDER RURAL INITIATIVE LIMITED W. W. & S. LIMITED

Geography

	Latitude	55.036001
	Longitude	-3.830289
	Easting	283125
	Northing	572808
	Grid reference	NX831728
	UTM reference	30U 446935 6099112
	what3words	slices.waged.eradicate
	Plus code	9C7R25P9+CV
	Altitude	122 metres (400 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	5:33
	Sunset (today)	20:53
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	16.2 KMs (10 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Castle Douglas and Crocketford	S13002883
Council Area	Dumfries and Galloway	S12000006
Constituency	Dumfries and Galloway	S14000013
MP	Mr Alister Jack	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

Data

Date introduced	January 1980
Last updated	March 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)	100
Households (2011)	34
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	3,131 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Accessible rural area
Census output area (2011)	S00097306
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Glenkens - 01	S01007547
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Glenkens	S02001418
Travel to work area	Dumfries	S22000055

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