DG16 postcode district: Gretna and around

DG16 is a postcode district mostly in Scotland, with 148 postcodes in use in 1 sector. It has postcodes in Gretna. It is split between 2 councils: Dumfries and Galloway (143 postcodes) and Cumberland (5). It crosses a national border: 143 are in Scotland and 5 in England.

Postcodes in use
148
Sectors
1
Councils
2 councils
Places
Gretna

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in DG16, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in DG16, by flood risk Of the 5 postcodes in DG16 in England that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk and 4 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. The other 143 are in Wales or Scotland, which the Environment Agency's list does not cover. Places named: Gretna. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 1 km. A75A74(M)M6A6071 DG16 5AA: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AB: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AD: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AE: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AF: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AG: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AH: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AJ: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AL: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AN: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AP: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AQ: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AR: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AS: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AT: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AU: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AW: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AX: not covered by the flood listDG16 5AZ: not covered by the flood listDG16 5BA: not covered by the flood listDG16 5BB: not covered by the flood listDG16 5BD: not covered by the flood listDG16 5BE: not covered by the flood listDG16 5BF: not covered by the flood listDG16 5BG: not covered by the flood listDG16 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flood listDG16 5DS: not covered by the flood listDG16 5DT: not covered by the flood listDG16 5DU: not covered by the flood listDG16 5DW: not covered by the flood listDG16 5DX: not covered by the flood listDG16 5DY: not covered by the flood listDG16 5DZ: not covered by the flood listDG16 5EA: not covered by the flood listDG16 5ED: not covered by the flood listDG16 5EE: not covered by the flood listDG16 5EF: not covered by the flood listDG16 5EH: not covered by the flood listDG16 5EL: not covered by the flood listDG16 5EN: not covered by the flood listDG16 5EP: not covered by the flood listDG16 5EQ: not covered by the flood listDG16 5ER: not covered by the flood listDG16 5ES: not covered by the flood listDG16 5ET: not covered by the flood listDG16 5EU: not covered by the flood listDG16 5EW: not covered by the flood listDG16 5EX: not covered by the flood listDG16 5EY: not covered by the flood listDG16 5EZ: not covered by the flood listDG16 5FA: not covered by the flood listDG16 5FB: not covered by the flood listDG16 5FD: not covered by the flood listDG16 5FE: not covered by the flood listDG16 5FF: not covered by the flood listDG16 5FG: not covered by the flood listDG16 5FH: not covered by the flood listDG16 5FJ: not covered by the flood listDG16 5FL: not covered by the flood listDG16 5FN: not covered by the flood listDG16 5FP: not covered by the flood listDG16 5FZ: not covered by the flood listDG16 5GD: not covered by the flood listDG16 5GG: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HA: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HB: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HD: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HE: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HF: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HG: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HH: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HJ: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HL: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HN: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HP: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HQ: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HR: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HS: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HW: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HX: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HY: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JD: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JE: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JF: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JG: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JH: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JJ: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JL: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JN: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JP: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JQ: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JR: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JS: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JT: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JU: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JW: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JY: not covered by the flood listDG16 5JZ: not covered by the flood listDG16 5LA: not covered by the flood listDG16 5LB: not covered by the flood listDG16 5LD: not covered by the flood listDG16 5LE: not covered by the flood listDG16 5LF: not covered by the flood listDG16 5LG: not covered by the flood listDG16 5LN: not covered by the flood listDG16 5LQ: not covered by the flood listDG16 5NA: not covered by the flood listDG16 5NB: not covered by the flood listDG16 5QA: not covered by the flood listDG16 5QB: not covered by the flood listDG16 5UP: not covered by the flood listDG16 5HT: not on the flood risk listDG16 5HU: not on the flood risk listDG16 5HZ: not on the flood risk listDG16 5JB: not on the flood risk listDG16 5JA: high flood risk Gretna Map of every postcode in DG16, by flood risk Of the 5 postcodes in DG16 in England that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk and 4 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. The other 143 are in Wales or Scotland, which the Environment Agency's list does not cover. Places named: Gretna. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 1 km. A74(M) Gretna
  • A home or business at high risk: 1
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 4
  • In Wales or Scotland: not covered by the Environment Agency: 143

Of the 5 postcodes in DG16 in England that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk and 4 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. The other 143 are in Wales or Scotland, which the Environment Agency's list does not cover.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 54.9971, longitude -3.0688. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

DG16 5JA3 at high risk

What broadband can you get in DG16?

Ofcom reports on 147 of the 148 postcodes in DG16. At 67 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 2 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit67 of 147
Postcodes where every home can get superfast132 of 147
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband2 of 147

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is DG16 at risk of flooding?

1 of the 5 postcodes in DG16 that are in England has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 3 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1 of 5 postcodes High: 3

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Postcodes in DG16

Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.

DG16 5148 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in DG16

Towns and villages with postcodes in DG16, and how many each has here.

Gretna postcodes,115

Who covers DG16

How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.

Councils

What council am I in?

Constituencies

  • Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale143
  • Carlisle5

Police force areas

  • Scotland143
  • Cumbria5

Next to DG16

DG14 postcode district All DG districts Gretna postcodes

"Next to" is by number: the district before DG16 in the DG area.

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