Map of DG2 8JY postcode

General information

Postcode	DG2 8JY
Post Town	Dumfries
Nearest station	Dumfries (13 km)
Bus stops	Tollbar Bridge (SW)
Roads in this postcode	Craignair Road John Street
Number of UPRNs	11 View
Businesses	JAMES RAWSON LTD KSDT LTD

Geography

	Latitude	54.988941
	Longitude	-3.757232
	Easting	287662
	Northing	567452
	Grid reference	NX876674
	UTM reference	30U 451548 6093823
	what3words	acids.crate.decreased
	Plus code	9C6RX6QV+H4
	Altitude	76 metres (251 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	6:36
	Sunset (today)	18:15
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	11.5 KMs (7.1 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	January 1980
Last updated	February 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)	18
Households (2011)	6
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	4,889 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Accessible rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00146740
Census output area (2011)	S00097311
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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