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, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 3
In use before 2020: 145

Of the 148 postcodes in DG16 that ONS places, 3 are new since 2020 and 145 were in use before 2020.

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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. 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; when each came into use: the same directory; 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 3 newest postcodes

DG16 5FRApril 2026 DG16 5FNFebruary 2020 DG16 5FLJanuary 2020

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