Schools
100 open schools are in scope, including 66 primary and 11 secondary schools. Kingsmead School is the nearest published school at 631 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE24 8HW
Alvaston North · Derby · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Alvaston North
- Local authority
- Derby
- Constituency
- Derby South
- Postcode district
- DE24
- Postcode sector
- DE24 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE24 8HW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 2017
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE24
- Postcode sector
- DE24 8
- Latitude
- 52.898777
- Longitude
- -1.448243
- British National Grid easting
- 437,213
- British National Grid northing
- 333,622
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Derby · E06000015
- Electoral ward
- Alvaston North · E05015509
- Parish or community
- E43000014
- Westminster constituency
- Derby South · E14001194
- Output area
- E00068025
- Lower layer super output area
- Derby 026A · E01013472
- Middle layer super output area
- Derby 026 · E02002821
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 DE24
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 100
- Primary
- 66
- Secondary
- 11
- 631 m
Kingsmead School
Academy special converter
- 736 m
Lakeside Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 816 m
Ashwood Spencer Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,695
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,078
- Anti social behaviour 434
- Public order 404
- Shoplifting 394
- Criminal damage and arson 354
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DE24 8 residents
- 17,955
Age bands in DE24 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.3%
4,368 residents
2,439 residents
5,832 residents
4,040 residents
1,908 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
17
within 5 km
ALVASTON MEDICAL CENTRE
14 BOULTON LANE, ALVASTON, DERBY, DE24 0GE
ODS code C81047
1.4 km
OSMASTON SURGERY
212 OSMASTON ROAD, DERBY, DE23 8JX
ODS code C81071
1.9 km
PEARTREE MEDICAL CENTRE
159 PEAR TREE ROAD, DERBY, DE23 8NQ
ODS code C81616
2.0 km
LISTER HOUSE SURGERY
207 ST. THOMAS ROAD, DERBY, DE23 8RJ
ODS code C81072
2.0 km
DERBY FAMILY MEDICAL CENTRE
1 HASTINGS STREET, DERBY, DE23 6QQ
ODS code C81118
2.4 km
VILLAGE SURGERY
VILLAGE COMMUNITY MEDICAL CENTRE, BROWNING STREET, DERBY, DE23 8AL
ODS code C81035
2.5 km
HORIZON HEALTHCARE
3-5 BURTON ROAD, DERBY, DE1 1TH
ODS code C81006
2.9 km
WILSON STREET SURGERY
11 WILSON STREET, DERBY, DE1 1PG
ODS code C81009
3.1 km
DERWENT VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
DERWENT VALLEY MEDICAL PRAC, 20 ST. MARKS ROAD, DERBY, DE21 6AT
ODS code C81014
3.2 km
MACKLIN STREET SURGERY
90 MACKLIN STREET, DERBY, DE1 1JX
ODS code C81073
3.4 km
THE PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
MAINE DRIVE, CHADDESDEN, DERBY, DE21 6LA
ODS code C81051
3.5 km
CHAPEL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
10 CHAPEL STREET, SPONDON, DERBY, DE21 7RJ
ODS code C81068
3.9 km
FRIAR GATE SURGERY
AGARD STREET, DERBY, DE1 1DZ
ODS code C81036
3.9 km
VERNON STREET MEDICAL CTR
13 VERNON STREET, DERBY, DE1 1FW
ODS code C81007
4.0 km
DERWENT MEDICAL CENTRE
26 NORTH STREET, DERBY, DE1 3AZ
ODS code C81652
4.0 km
BROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
183 KEDLESTON ROAD, DERBY, DE22 1FT
ODS code C81653
4.8 km
OVERDALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
207 VICTORIA AVENUE, BORROWASH, DERBY, DE72 3HG
ODS code C81066
4.9 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Alvaston Park
BCT · Wilmorton
- 0.4 miles
Alvaston Park
BCT · Wilmorton
- 0.4 miles
Conference Centre
BCT · Wilmorton
- 0.4 miles
Ascot Drive South
BCT · Allenton
- 0.5 miles
Ashby Street
BCT · Allenton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Derby 026A, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,593 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- 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
4,695 published events cover 12 months, averaging 391.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,078 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.