DG9 8QU
Stranraer and the Rhins · Dumfries and Galloway · Scotland
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Postcode district
- DG9
- Postcode sector
- DG9 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DG9 8QU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DG
- Postcode district
- DG9
- Postcode sector
- DG9 8
- Latitude
- 54.952723
- Longitude
- -5.004663
- British National Grid easting
- 207,691
- British National Grid northing
- 566,140
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- Scotland · S92000003
- Region
- S99999999
- Local authority district
- Dumfries and Galloway · S12000006
- Electoral ward
- Stranraer and the Rhins · S13002880
- Parish or community
- S99999999
- Westminster constituency
- Dumfries and Galloway · S14000073
- Output area
- S00146754
- Lower layer super output area
- Rhins South - 01 · S01015172
- Middle layer super output area
- Rhins South · S02002811
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
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Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
- 0.3 miles
Road End
BCT · Cairnryan
- 0.3 miles
Road End
BCT · Cairnryan
- 0.8 miles
Ferry Terminal
BCT · Cairnryan
- 0.9 miles
Ferry Terminal
BCT · Cairnryan
- 1.0 miles
Cairnryan P&O Ferry Terminal
FER · Cairnryan