Map of DG8 7HJ postcode

General information

Postcode	DG8 7HJ
Post Town	Newton Stewart
Nearest station	Barrhill (34 km)
Bus stops	Adamson Square (N) St John Street (SE) St John Street (NW)
Roads in this postcode	Chain Road
Number of UPRNs	24 View
Businesses	CHIKARA ELECTRICAL LIMITED

Geography

	Latitude	54.903344
	Longitude	-4.375925
	Easting	247759
	Northing	559099
	Grid reference	NX477590
	UTM reference	30U 411775 6084902
	what3words	loved.sage.covenants
	FixPhrase	crunchy luminous saxophone twirl
	Plus code	9C6QWJ3F+8J
	Altitude	26 metres (86 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	8:28
	Sunset (today)	15:52
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	1.1 KMs (0.7 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	November 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)	53
Households (2011)	22
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	2,897 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00147166
Census output area (2011)	8A1
Lower layer super output area (2021)	Newton Stewart - 08	S01015194
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Newton Stewart - 08	S01007520
Middle layer super output area (2021)	Newton Stewart	S02002814
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Newton Stewart	S02001412
Travel to work area	Newton Stewart	S22000072

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