Map of DG7 3JS postcode No longer in use

General information

Postcode	DG7 3JS
Post Town	Castle Douglas
Nearest station	Dumfries (19 km)
Bus stops	Village (NW)
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	54.975302
	Longitude	-3.857918
	Easting	281180
	Northing	566101
	Grid reference	NX811661
	UTM reference	30U 445087 6092379
	what3words	dote.lied.group
	FixPhrase	crunchy lunar stinging turtle
	Plus code	9C6RX4GR+4R
	Altitude	36 metres (119 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:09
	Sunset (today)	19:06
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	9.7 KMs (6 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Castle Douglas and Crocketford	S13002883
Council Area	Dumfries and Galloway	S12000006
Constituency (2024)	Dumfries and Galloway	S14000073
MP	John Cooper	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	August 1973
Date usage ended	April 1989
Last updated	September 2025
User type	Small (addresses receive less 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 (2019)	4,889 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Accessible Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Accessible rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00146887
Census output area (2011)	1B3
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Dalbeattie Rural - 02	S01007545
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Dalbeattie Rural	S02001417
Travel to work area	Dalbeattie and Castle Douglas	S22000053

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