Map of DG8 8LZ postcode

General information

Postcode	DG8 8LZ
Post Town	Newton Stewart
Nearest station	Stranraer (43 km)
Bus stops	No nearby bus stops
Roads in this postcode	A746
Number of UPRNs	8 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	54.723009
	Longitude	-4.441533
	Easting	242854
	Northing	539182
	Grid reference	NX428391
	UTM reference	30U 407156 6064922
	what3words	tadpole.doped.monopoly
	FixPhrase	cruncher luminance shiftless tastiness
	Plus code	9C6QPHF5+69
	Altitude	74 metres (244 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	8:36
	Sunset (today)	15:52
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	3.7 KMs (2.3 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)	5
Households (2011)	3
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	3,279 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00147301
Census output area (2011)	1A1
Lower layer super output area (2021)	Machars South - 04	S01015183
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Machars South - 04	S01007509
Middle layer super output area (2021)	Machars South	S02002813
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Machars South	S02001411
Travel to work area	Newton Stewart	S22000072

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