Map of DG3 5BW postcode

General information

Postcode	DG3 5BW
Post Town	Thornhill
Nearest station	Sanquhar (11 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Roads in this postcode	A702 High Street
Number of UPRNs	10 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	55.32715
	Longitude	-3.766067
	Easting	288049
	Northing	605097
	Grid reference	NS880050
	UTM reference	30U 451395 6131464
	what3words	remarking.passages.bounding
	FixPhrase	crusher lunchbox showgirl trembling
	Plus code	9C7R86GM+VH
	Altitude	185 metres (608 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:20
	Sunset (today)	16:38
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	37.8 KMs (23.5 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)	12
Households (2011)	4
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	3,609 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00146056
Census output area (2011)	1A3
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Thornhill - 01	S01007559
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Thornhill	S02001420
Travel to work area	Dumfries	S22000055

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