Schools
29 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 4 secondary schools. Ripley Nursery School is the nearest published school at 644 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE5 3FH
Ripley & Marehay · Amber Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ripley & Marehay
- Local authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Amber Valley
- Postcode district
- DE5
- Postcode sector
- DE5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE5 3FH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2001
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE5
- Postcode sector
- DE5 3
- Latitude
- 53.047498
- Longitude
- -1.421900
- British National Grid easting
- 438,852
- British National Grid northing
- 350,180
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Amber Valley · E07000032
- Electoral ward
- Ripley & Marehay · E05014704
- Parish or community
- E04002688
- Westminster constituency
- Amber Valley · E14001066
- Output area
- E00098426
- Lower layer super output area
- Amber Valley 006E · E01019462
- Middle layer super output area
- Amber Valley 006 · E02004034
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 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 29
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 4
- 644 m
Ripley Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 797 m
Ripley Infant School
Community school
- 822 m
Ripley Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,241
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 590
- Anti social behaviour 131
- Public order 109
- Shoplifting 95
- Criminal damage and arson 91
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DE5 3 residents
- 13,238
Age bands in DE5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 24%
1,987 residents
1,207 residents
2,953 residents
3,631 residents
3,082 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.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
RIPLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
DERBY ROAD, RIPLEY, DE5 3HR
ODS code C81059
1.1 km
IVY GROVE SURGERY
CHURCH FARM MEDICAL CENTRE, STEEPLE DRIVE, RIPLEY, DE5 3TH
ODS code C81004
1.4 km
WHITEMOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITEMOOR LANE, BELPER, DE56 0JB
ODS code C81038
2.9 km
JESSOP MEDICAL PRACTICE
GREENHILL PRIM CARE CTR, GREENHILL LANE, LEABROOKS, ALFRETON, DE55 1LU
ODS code C81005
4.5 km
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
57 - 59 BRIDGE STREET, BELPER, DE56 1AY
ODS code C81069
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Industrial Estate
BCT · Ripley
- 0.1 miles
Industrial Estate
BCT · Ripley
- 0.1 miles
Derwent Business Park
BCT · Ripley
- 0.1 miles
Derwent Business Park
BCT · Ripley
- 0.2 miles
Street Lane
BCT · Ripley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Amber Valley 006E, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,872 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
1,241 published events cover 12 months, averaging 103.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 590 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.