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

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; National Records of Scotland localities.

Every postcode in DG16, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 51
Some can get gigabit: 29
Every home and business can get gigabit: 67
Ofcom gives no figure: 1
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 148 postcodes in DG16 that ONS places, 51 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 29 have some that can, 67 can all get it and 1 have no Ofcom figure.

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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 170 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and 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

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.

Postcodes without gigabit

51 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

DG16 5BP DG16 5DN DG16 5DS DG16 5DT DG16 5DU DG16 5DX DG16 5DY DG16 5DZ DG16 5EA DG16 5EB DG16 5ED DG16 5EE

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

15 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. DG16 5EQ, is the one nearest the middle of them.

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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.