Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. Heage Primary School is the nearest published school at 946 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE5 2AF
Heage & Ambergate · Amber Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Heage & Ambergate
- Local authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Amber Valley
- Postcode district
- DE5
- Postcode sector
- DE5 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE5 2AF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE5
- Postcode sector
- DE5 2
- Latitude
- 53.044409
- Longitude
- -1.445404
- British National Grid easting
- 437,279
- British National Grid northing
- 349,824
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Amber Valley · E07000032
- Electoral ward
- Heage & Ambergate · E05014698
- Parish or community
- E04002688
- Westminster constituency
- Amber Valley · E14001066
- Output area
- E00098264
- Lower layer super output area
- Amber Valley 007C · E01019428
- Middle layer super output area
- Amber Valley 007 · E02004035
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 DE5
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 4
- 946 m
Heage Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
Street Lane Primary School
Academy converter
- 2.1 km
Belper School and Sixth Form Centre
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 134
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 72
- Public order 13
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Other crime 8
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
WHITEMOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITEMOOR LANE, BELPER, DE56 0JB
ODS code C81038
1.6 km
RIPLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
DERBY ROAD, RIPLEY, DE5 3HR
ODS code C81059
2.7 km
IVY GROVE SURGERY
CHURCH FARM MEDICAL CENTRE, STEEPLE DRIVE, RIPLEY, DE5 3TH
ODS code C81004
2.9 km
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
57 - 59 BRIDGE STREET, BELPER, DE56 1AY
ODS code C81069
3.5 km
Nearby transport
- 64 m
Cookfield
BCT · Heage
- 68 m
Cookfield
BCT · Heage
- 166 m
Park Road
BCT · Heage
- 186 m
Park Road
BCT · Heage
- 245 m
Windmill Inn
BCT · Heage
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Amber Valley 007C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,329 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
134 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 72 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.