Schools
31 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 5 secondary schools. Ripley Nursery School is the nearest published school at 486 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE5 3ZJ
Ripley · Amber Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ripley
- Local authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Amber Valley
- Postcode district
- DE5
- Postcode sector
- DE5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE5 3ZJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- 1 January 2001
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE5
- Postcode sector
- DE5 3
- Latitude
- 53.049811
- Longitude
- -1.406026
- British National Grid easting
- 439,914
- British National Grid northing
- 350,446
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Amber Valley · E07000032
- Electoral ward
- Ripley · E05014703
- Parish or community
- E04002688
- Westminster constituency
- Amber Valley · E14001066
- Output area
- E00098391
- Lower layer super output area
- Amber Valley 008D · E01019458
- Middle layer super output area
- Amber Valley 008 · E02004036
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
- 31
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 5
- 486 m
Ripley Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 523 m
Lons Infant School
Community school
- 671 m
Ripley Junior School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,905
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 895
- Anti social behaviour 193
- Public order 189
- Criminal damage and arson 160
- Drugs 114
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
RIPLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
DERBY ROAD, RIPLEY, DE5 3HR
ODS code C81059
271 m
IVY GROVE SURGERY
CHURCH FARM MEDICAL CENTRE, STEEPLE DRIVE, RIPLEY, DE5 3TH
ODS code C81004
872 m
JESSOP MEDICAL PRACTICE
GREENHILL PRIM CARE CTR, GREENHILL LANE, LEABROOKS, ALFRETON, DE55 1LU
ODS code C81005
3.5 km
WHITEMOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITEMOOR LANE, BELPER, DE56 0JB
ODS code C81038
3.9 km
SOMERCOTES MEDICAL CENTRE
22 NOTTINGHAM ROAD, SOMERCOTES, ALFRETON, DE55 4JJ
ODS code C81027
4.3 km
JACKSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
8 MAIN ROAD, JACKSDALE, NOTTINGHAM, NG16 5JW
ODS code C84654
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Grosvenor Road
BCT · Ripley
- 0.0 miles
High Street
BCT · Ripley
- 0.0 miles
High Street
BCT · Ripley
- 0.1 miles
Market Place
BCT · Ripley
- 0.1 miles
Church Street
BCT · Ripley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Amber Valley 008D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,250 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
1,905 published events cover 12 months, averaging 158.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 895 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.