Map of DG3 5LW postcode

General information

Postcode	DG3 5LW
Post Town	Thornhill
Nearest station	Sanquhar (17 km)
Bus stops	Drumlanrig St (NW) Drumlanrig St (SE)
Roads in this postcode	Gill Road
Number of UPRNs	3 View
Businesses	No businesses found

Geography

	Latitude	55.244908
	Longitude	-3.77041
	Easting	287541
	Northing	595953
	Grid reference	NX875959
	UTM reference	30U 451019 6122315
	what3words	lunged.joked.noises
	Plus code	9C7R66VH+XR
	Altitude	67 metres (219 feet)
	Sunrise (today)	6:36
	Sunset (today)	18:15
	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)	5
Households (2011)	2
Index of Multiple Deprivation (2019)	3,823 / 6,976 Most deprivedLeast deprived
Rural/urban	Accessible rural area
Census output area (2021)	S00146126
Census output area (2011)	S00097292
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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