DG16 5BY
Annandale East and Eskdale · Dumfries and Galloway · Scotland
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
- Local authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale
- Postcode district
- DG16
- Postcode sector
- DG16 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DG16 5BY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DG
- Postcode district
- DG16
- Postcode sector
- DG16 5
- Latitude
- 54.990724
- Longitude
- -3.066396
- British National Grid easting
- 331,866
- British National Grid northing
- 566,757
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Scotland · S92000003
- Region
- S99999999
- Local authority district
- Dumfries and Galloway · S12000006
- Electoral ward
- Annandale East and Eskdale · S13002891
- Parish or community
- S99999999
- Westminster constituency
- Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale · S14000074
- Output area
- S00146855
- Lower layer super output area
- Gretna - 04 · S01015356
- Middle layer super output area
- Gretna · S02002846
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore DG16
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DG16 5 residents
- 55
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Park
BCT · Gretna
- 0.1 miles
Church
BCT · Gretna
- 0.3 miles
Club
BCT · Gretna
- 0.3 miles
Central Avenue
BCT · Gretna
- 0.3 miles
School
BCT · Gretna