Map of DG3 5BX postcode

General information

Postcode	DG3 5BX
Post Town	Thornhill
Nearest station	Sanquhar (11 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Number of UPRNs	3 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	55.310585
	Longitude	-3.789627
	Easting	286507
	Northing	603292
	Grid reference	NS865032
	UTM reference	30U 449880 6129637
	what3words	mows.rationed.leave
	FixPhrase	crusher lunchbox scribe unneeded
	Plus code	9C7R8666+64
	Altitude	142 metres (466 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:18
	Sunset (today)	16:41
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	36.6 KMs (22.8 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)	3
Households (2011)	1
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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