DG3 postcode district
DG3, in the DG (Dumfries) postcode area, has 267 live and 36 terminated postcodes in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026, and OS Open Names files 80 roads under it.
| postcode area | DG (Dumfries) |
|---|---|
| live postcodes | 267 |
| terminated postcodes | 36 |
| sectors | 3 |
| roads listed | 80 |
| companies registered | 124 |
| centroid | 55.23746, -3.79903 |
| directory release | 2026-08 |
Postcodes and sectors
267 of the district's 303 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 55.23746, -3.79903, which locates the district, not a building.
| sector | live | terminated |
|---|---|---|
| DG3 4 | 115 | 16 |
| DG3 5 | 151 | 14 |
| DG3 9 | 1 | 6 |
Companies registered in DG3
Companies House lists 124 companies with a registered office in DG3; none of them at an address shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.
Places OS Open Names lists for DG3
- Dumfries and Galloway
- Scotland
- Thornhill
- Penpont
- Moniaive
- Closeburn
- Carronbridge
- Keir Mill
- Park
- Kirkland
- Tynron
- Cample
- Enterkinfoot
- Burnhead
- Durisdeermill
- Durisdeer
- Gatelawbridge
- Kirkpatrick
Roads filed under DG3
Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.
- Abbeyfield Road
- Aulton Terrace
- Ayr Street
- Back Street
- Beech Drive
- Benan Place
- Blackmire Terrace
- Blackrig
- Boat Brae
- Bogg Road
- Briar Place
- Buccleuch Crescent
- Burn Brae
- Cairn Court
- Cairnkinna Crescent
- Carronview
- Castle Crescent
- Chapel Street
- Clone Road
- Coo Lane
- Corse Road
- Corstorphine Road
- Craignee Drive
- Dalgarnock Road
- Dalmacallan View
- Davie Gill Park
- Drumlanrig Street
- Drumlanrig View
- Dunreggan Brae
- East Morton Street
- Firmuir Avenue
- Galabreck Road
- Gawinmoor Road
- Gill Road
- Gled Brae
- Grant Court
- Grennan Place
- Grennan Road
- High Street
- Kinnell Street
- Main Street
- Manse Brae
- Manse Park
- Manse Road
- Marrburn Road
- Millbank Place
- Milner Place
- Morton Court
- Mortonholm Road
- Muirhall Road
- Neis Place
- New Court
- New Street
- Nithbank Road
- North Street
- Old Drove Road
- Park Road
- Park Walk
- Pegasus Way
- Princes Street
all 80 roads
- Quarry Road
- Queensberry Beeches
- Queensberry Brae
- Queensberry Place
- Sawmill Green
- Seton Avenue
- Shawsholm Road
- St Cuthbert's Walk
- Townhead Street
- Tynron View
- Walltrees Road
- Waugh Place
- Waugh Road
- Well Path
- West Morton Street
- Woodend Avenue
- Woodend Way
- B729
- B731
- B732
Check an address in DG3
The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:
curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=DG3" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"
Common questions about DG3
- What does a DG3 postcode tell you?
- That the address lies in the DG3 district of the DG (Dumfries) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Dumfries and Galloway. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 267 live postcodes.
Where the counts come from
- ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
- os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
- uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0
What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.
Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.
Districts nearest DG3
- DG418.2 km
- DG221.2 km
- DG122.8 km
- DG1024.6 km
- DG1132.3 km
- DG732.8 km
- DG535.2 km
- KA1836.8 km
- ML1239.1 km
- DG1244.5 km
- DG647.4 km
- ML1147.8 km
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