DG5 postcode district: Dalbeattie and around, Dumfries and Galloway

DG5 is a postcode district in Scotland, with 217 postcodes in use in 1 sector. It has postcodes in Dalbeattie and Castle Douglas. Its council is Dumfries and Galloway.

Postcodes in use
217
Sectors
1
Council
Dumfries and Galloway
Places
2 places

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

Every postcode in DG5, and which are new since 2020

Map of every postcode in DG5, by new since 2020 Of the 217 postcodes in DG5 that ONS places, 4 are new since 2020 and 213 were in use before 2020. Places named: Dalbeattie, Castle Douglas. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. A745A75 DG5 4AF: before 2020DG5 4AH: before 2020DG5 4AN: before 2020DG5 4AR: before 2020DG5 4AS: before 2020DG5 4AT: before 2020DG5 4AW: before 2020DG5 4AZ: before 2020DG5 4BA: before 2020DG5 4BB: before 2020DG5 4BE: before 2020DG5 4BF: before 2020DG5 4BH: before 2020DG5 4BJ: before 2020DG5 4BN: before 2020DG5 4BP: before 2020DG5 4BS: before 2020DG5 4BT: before 2020DG5 4BW: before 2020DG5 4BX: before 2020DG5 4DB: before 2020DG5 4DE: before 2020DG5 4DF: before 2020DG5 4DH: before 2020DG5 4DJ: before 2020DG5 4DP: before 2020DG5 4DQ: before 2020DG5 4DR: before 2020DG5 4DS: before 2020DG5 4DX: before 2020DG5 4DY: before 2020DG5 4DZ: before 2020DG5 4EA: before 2020DG5 4ED: before 2020DG5 4EE: before 2020DG5 4EG: before 2020DG5 4EH: before 2020DG5 4EJ: before 2020DG5 4EN: before 2020DG5 4EP: before 2020DG5 4EQ: before 2020DG5 4ER: before 2020DG5 4ES: before 2020DG5 4EW: before 2020DG5 4EX: before 2020DG5 4EY: before 2020DG5 4FA: before 2020DG5 4FG: before 2020DG5 4GA: before 2020DG5 4GX: before 2020DG5 4GY: before 2020DG5 4GZ: before 2020DG5 4HE: before 2020DG5 4HF: before 2020DG5 4HG: before 2020DG5 4HJ: before 2020DG5 4HL: before 2020DG5 4HT: before 2020DG5 4HU: before 2020DG5 4HX: before 2020DG5 4HY: before 2020DG5 4HZ: before 2020DG5 4JA: before 2020DG5 4JB: before 2020DG5 4JE: before 2020DG5 4JG: before 2020DG5 4JH: before 2020DG5 4JJ: before 2020DG5 4JL: before 2020DG5 4JN: before 2020DG5 4JP: before 2020DG5 4JR: before 2020DG5 4JS: before 2020DG5 4JZ: before 2020DG5 4LB: before 2020DG5 4LD: before 2020DG5 4LE: before 2020DG5 4LF: before 2020DG5 4LG: before 2020DG5 4LH: before 2020DG5 4LJ: before 2020DG5 4LL: before 2020DG5 4LN: before 2020DG5 4LQ: before 2020DG5 4LR: before 2020DG5 4LT: before 2020DG5 4LU: before 2020DG5 4LW: before 2020DG5 4LX: before 2020DG5 4LZ: before 2020DG5 4NA: before 2020DG5 4NE: before 2020DG5 4NF: before 2020DG5 4NH: before 2020DG5 4NJ: before 2020DG5 4NL: before 2020DG5 4NN: before 2020DG5 4NP: before 2020DG5 4NQ: before 2020DG5 4NR: before 2020DG5 4NS: before 2020DG5 4NU: before 2020DG5 4NW: before 2020DG5 4NY: before 2020DG5 4NZ: before 2020DG5 4PA: before 2020DG5 4PB: before 2020DG5 4PD: before 2020DG5 4PE: before 2020DG5 4PF: before 2020DG5 4PG: before 2020DG5 4PH: before 2020DG5 4PJ: before 2020DG5 4PL: before 2020DG5 4PN: before 2020DG5 4PP: before 2020DG5 4PQ: before 2020DG5 4PR: before 2020DG5 4PT: before 2020DG5 4PU: before 2020DG5 4PW: before 2020DG5 4PX: before 2020DG5 4PY: before 2020DG5 4PZ: before 2020DG5 4QA: before 2020DG5 4QB: before 2020DG5 4QD: before 2020DG5 4QE: before 2020DG5 4QF: before 2020DG5 4QG: before 2020DG5 4QH: before 2020DG5 4QJ: before 2020DG5 4QL: before 2020DG5 4QN: before 2020DG5 4QP: before 2020DG5 4QQ: before 2020DG5 4QR: before 2020DG5 4QS: before 2020DG5 4QT: before 2020DG5 4QU: before 2020DG5 4QW: before 2020DG5 4QX: before 2020DG5 4RA: before 2020DG5 4RD: before 2020DG5 4RG: before 2020DG5 4RH: before 2020DG5 4RJ: before 2020DG5 4TA: before 2020DG5 4TB: before 2020DG5 4UQ: before 2020DG5 4WA: before 2020DG5 4XL: before 2020DG5 4FH: new since 2020DG5 4AB: new since 2020DG5 4AY: new since 2020DG5 4HR: new since 2020 DalbeattieCastle Douglas Map of every postcode in DG5, by new since 2020 Of the 217 postcodes in DG5 that ONS places, 4 are new since 2020 and 213 were in use before 2020. Places named: Dalbeattie, Castle Douglas. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 2.5 km. A745A75 DalbeattieCastle Douglas
  • New since 2020: 4
  • In use before 2020: 213

Of the 217 postcodes in DG5 that ONS places, 4 are new since 2020 and 213 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 54.9214, longitude -3.8112. 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 4 newest postcodes

DG5 4HRApril 2026DG5 4FHSeptember 2025DG5 4ABOctober 2023DG5 4AYJanuary 2020

What broadband can you get in DG5?

Ofcom reports on 214 of the 217 postcodes in DG5. At 77 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 3 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit77 of 214
Postcodes where every home can get superfast191 of 214
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband3 of 214

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.

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

Postcodes in DG5

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

DG5 4217 postcodes
UK postcode format explained

Places in DG5

Towns and villages with postcodes in DG5, and how many each has here.

Dalbeattie postcodes,148Castle Douglas postcodes,1

Who covers DG5

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

Councils

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Constituencies

  • Dumfries and Galloway217

Police force areas

  • Scotland217

Next to DG5

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"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after DG5 in the DG area.

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