Map of DG8 6SW postcode

General information

Postcode	DG8 6SW
Post Town	Newton Stewart
Nearest station	Barrhill (20 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Number of UPRNs	2 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	54.998691
	Longitude	-4.520409
	Easting	238879
	Northing	570030
	Grid reference	NX388700
	UTM reference	30U 402742 6095702
	what3words	protected.poster.handed
	FixPhrase	crunchy lumber sway upstream
	Plus code	9C6QXFXH+FR
	Altitude	64 metres (211 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:12
	Sunset (today)	19:09
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	7.9 KMs (4.9 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Mid Galloway and Wigtown West	S13002881
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	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)	2
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	3,305 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00146517
Census output area (2011)	1A4
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Newton Stewart - 07	S01007519
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Newton Stewart	S02001412
Travel to work area	Newton Stewart	S22000072

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