Map of DG3 5AL postcode

General information

Postcode	DG3 5AL
Post Town	Thornhill
Nearest station	Sanquhar (17 km)
Bus stops	Drumlanrig St (NW) Drumlanrig St (SE)
Roads in this postcode	Aulton Terrace Blackmire Terrace
Number of UPRNs	14 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	55.243988
	Longitude	-3.773506
	Easting	287342
	Northing	595856
	Grid reference	NX873958
	UTM reference	30U 450821 6122215
	what3words	sheepish.names.bunk
	Plus code	9C7R66VG+HH
	Altitude	64 metres (211 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	6:34
	Sunset (today)	18:17
	Distance away
	Distance to sea	29.4 KMs (18.3 miles)

Administrative areas

Ward	Mid and Upper Nithsdale	S13002886
Council Area	Dumfries and Galloway	S12000006
Constituency (2024)	Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale	S14000074
MP	David Mundell	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)	22
Households (2011)	12
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	3,823 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Accessible rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00146127
Census output area (2011)	S00098188
Lower layer super output area (2011)	Thornhill - 02	S01007560
Middle layer super output area (2011)	Thornhill	S02001420
Travel to work area	Dumfries	S22000055

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