Schools
103 open schools are in scope, including 63 primary and 11 secondary schools. Derby College is the nearest published school at 704 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE21 6EL
Chaddesden West · Derby · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Chaddesden West
- Local authority
- Derby
- Constituency
- Derby North
- Postcode district
- DE21
- Postcode sector
- DE21 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE21 6EL
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE21
- Postcode sector
- DE21 6
- Latitude
- 52.922989
- Longitude
- -1.456816
- British National Grid easting
- 436,616
- British National Grid northing
- 336,311
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Derby · E06000015
- Electoral ward
- Chaddesden West · E05015515
- Parish or community
- E43000014
- Westminster constituency
- Derby North · E14001193
- Output area
- E00068349
- Lower layer super output area
- Derby 007E · E01013538
- Middle layer super output area
- Derby 007 · E02002802
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore DE21
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 103
- Primary
- 63
- Secondary
- 11
- 704 m
Derby College
Further education
- 717 m
Derwent Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 783 m
Castleward Spencer Academy
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8,485
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,971
- Shoplifting 1,117
- Public order 972
- Drugs 933
- Anti social behaviour 591
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DE21 6 residents
- 17,520
Age bands in DE21 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.3%
3,352 residents
1,985 residents
4,382 residents
4,611 residents
3,201 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
18
within 5 km
DERWENT VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
DERWENT VALLEY MEDICAL PRAC, 20 ST. MARKS ROAD, DERBY, DE21 6AT
ODS code C81014
418 m
OSMASTON SURGERY
212 OSMASTON ROAD, DERBY, DE23 8JX
ODS code C81071
1.5 km
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
3-5 BURTON ROAD, DERBY, DE1 1TH
ODS code C81006
1.6 km
WILSON STREET SURGERY
11 WILSON STREET, DERBY, DE1 1PG
ODS code C81009
1.6 km
MACKLIN STREET SURGERY
90 MACKLIN STREET, DERBY, DE1 1JX
ODS code C81073
1.7 km
THE PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
MAINE DRIVE, CHADDESDEN, DERBY, DE21 6LA
ODS code C81051
1.8 km
DERWENT MEDICAL CENTRE
26 NORTH STREET, DERBY, DE1 3AZ
ODS code C81652
1.8 km
FRIAR GATE SURGERY
AGARD STREET, DERBY, DE1 1DZ
ODS code C81036
2.0 km
VERNON STREET MEDICAL CTR
13 VERNON STREET, DERBY, DE1 1FW
ODS code C81007
2.3 km
PEARTREE MEDICAL CENTRE
159 PEAR TREE ROAD, DERBY, DE23 8NQ
ODS code C81616
2.3 km
DERBY FAMILY MEDICAL CENTRE
1 HASTINGS STREET, DERBY, DE23 6QQ
ODS code C81118
2.5 km
BROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
183 KEDLESTON ROAD, DERBY, DE22 1FT
ODS code C81653
2.6 km
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
207 ST. THOMAS ROAD, DERBY, DE23 8RJ
ODS code C81072
2.8 km
PARK FARM MEDICAL CENTRE
3 PARK FARM CENTRE, ALLESTREE, DERBY, DE22 2QN
ODS code C81064
3.5 km
CHAPEL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
10 CHAPEL STREET, SPONDON, DERBY, DE21 7RJ
ODS code C81068
3.5 km
VILLAGE SURGERY
VILLAGE COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTRE, BROWNING STREET, DERBY, DE23 8AL
ODS code C81035
3.5 km
ALVASTON MEDICAL CENTRE
14 BOULTON LANE, ALVASTON, DERBY, DE24 0GE
ODS code C81047
3.7 km
PARK LANE SURGERY
2 PARK LANE, ALLESTREE, DERBY, DE22 2DS
ODS code C81040
3.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Wayzgoose Drive
BCT · Chaddesden
- 0.2 miles
Wayzgoose Drive
BCT · Chaddesden
- 0.2 miles
Cornwall Road
BCT · Chaddesden
- 0.2 miles
Cornwall Road
BCT · Chaddesden
- 0.2 miles
Francis Street
BCT · Chaddesden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Derby 007E, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,177 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
8,485 published events cover 12 months, averaging 707.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,971 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.