Map of DG7 2AX postcode No longer in use

General information

Postcode	DG7 2AX
Post Town	Castle Douglas
Nearest station	Dumfries (39 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	54.875905
	Longitude	-4.108473
	Easting	264812
	Northing	555497
	Grid reference	NX648554
	UTM reference	30U 428875 6081545
	what3words	caressed.quicksand.shortcuts
	FixPhrase	crunching lumping stipend violation
	Plus code	9C6QVVGR+9J
	Altitude	119 metres (389 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	8:21
	Sunset (today)	16:37
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	4.8 KMs (3 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Dee and Glenkens	S13002882
Council Area	Dumfries and Galloway	S12000006
Constituency (2024)	Dumfries and Galloway	S14000073
MP	John Cooper	Conservative
Police force	Scotland
NUTS/ITL 3	Dumfries and Galloway
NUTS/ITL 2	Southern Scotland
NUTS/ITL 1	Scotland
Country	Scotland	S92000003

Data

Date introduced	October 1994
Date usage ended	December 1996
Last updated	December 2025
User type	Large (addresses receive more than 25 items of mail per day)
Quality	Postcode terminated prior to Gridlink initiative - last known ONS postcode grid reference

Demographics

Index of Multiple Deprivation (2017-2020)	4,188 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00146982
Census output area (2011)	S00097328
Lower layer super output area (2021)	Gatehouse - 04	S01015198
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Gatehouse - 04	S01007524
Middle layer super output area (2021)	Gatehouse	S02002815
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Gatehouse	S02001413
Travel to work area	Dalbeattie and Castle Douglas	S22000053

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