Map of DG3 4LX postcode

General information

Postcode	DG3 4LX
Post Town	Thornhill
Nearest station	Sanquhar (17 km)
Bus stops	Grennan Road (SW)
Roads in this postcode	Clone Road Main Street
Number of UPRNs	27 View
Businesses	REID ROSE STRATEGY AND RESEARCH LTD TOWNHEAD LTD

Geography

	Latitude	55.231138
	Longitude	-3.821755
	Easting	284237
	Northing	594505
	Grid reference	NX842945
	UTM reference	30U 447736 6120820
	what3words	pills.economies.overgrown
	FixPhrase	crushed lunar silica tinkling
	Plus code	9C7R65JH+F7
	Altitude	68 metres (223 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:18
	Sunset (today)	16:41
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	29.6 KMs (18.4 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Mid and Upper Nithsdale	S13002886
Council Area	Dumfries and Galloway	S12000006
Constituency (2024)	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	S14000074
MP	David Mundell	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	September 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)	46
Households (2011)	21
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	3,596 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Accessible Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00146131
Census output area (2011)	1A3
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Thornhill - 04	S01007562
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Thornhill	S02001420
Travel to work area	Dumfries	S22000055

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2025
Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2025
Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database rights 2025
Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0
Contains data from Wikipedia covered by the Creative Commons license