Map of DG8 9JH postcode

General information

Postcode	DG8 9JH
Post Town	Newton Stewart
Nearest station	Barrhill (33 km)
Bus stops	Primary (N) Primary (S)
Roads in this postcode	Main Street South Main Street
Number of UPRNs	3 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	54.868571
	Longitude	-4.441395
	Easting	243427
	Northing	555375
	Grid reference	NX434553
	UTM reference	30U 407498 6081117
	what3words	farm.outbound.spooned
	FixPhrase	crunching luminance stardom unsorted
	Plus code	9C6QVH95+CC
	Altitude	39 metres (129 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	7:20
	Sunset (today)	16:45
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	0.8 KMs (0.5 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

Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	2,444 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban (2021)	Remote Rural
Rural/urban (2011)	Remote rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00147219
Census output area (2011)	8C2
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Machars South - 02	S01007507
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Machars South	S02001411
Travel to work area	Newton Stewart	S22000072

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