Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 3 secondary schools. Croft Infant School is the nearest published school at 128 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE5 7BU
Alfreton · Amber Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Alfreton
- Local authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Amber Valley
- Postcode district
- DE5
- Postcode sector
- DE5 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE5 7BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE5
- Postcode sector
- DE5 7
- Latitude
- 53.095740
- Longitude
- -1.388893
- British National Grid easting
- 441,019
- British National Grid northing
- 355,565
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Amber Valley · E07000032
- Electoral ward
- Alfreton · E05014690
- Parish or community
- E04002665
- Westminster constituency
- Amber Valley · E14001066
- Output area
- E00098124
- Lower layer super output area
- Amber Valley 001B · E01019401
- Middle layer super output area
- Amber Valley 001 · E02004029
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
- 35
- Primary
- 26
- Secondary
- 3
- 128 m
Croft Infant School
Community school
- 241 m
Alfreton Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 291 m
Woodbridge Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,318
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 531
- Shoplifting 156
- Anti social behaviour 129
- Public order 127
- Criminal damage and arson 94
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
5
within 5 km
LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
LIMES AVENUE, ALFRETON, DE55 7DW
ODS code C81099
316 m
PARKSIDE SURGERY
ALFRETON PRIMARY CARE CTR, CHURCH STREET, ALFRETON, DE55 7AH
ODS code C81053
318 m
SOMERCOTES MEDICAL CENTRE
22 NOTTINGHAM ROAD, SOMERCOTES, ALFRETON, DE55 4JJ
ODS code C81027
1.8 km
JESSOP MEDICAL PRACTICE
GREENHILL PRIM CARE CTR, GREENHILL LANE, LEABROOKS, ALFRETON, DE55 1LU
ODS code C81005
2.6 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY
THE HUB, SHINERS WAY, OFF LEES LANE, SOUTH NORMANTON, ALFRETON, DE55 2FY
ODS code C81050
3.2 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
- 0.0 miles
Millfield House Temporary Stop
BCT · Alfreton
- 0.0 miles
Alfreton Bus Station
BCS · Alfreton
- 0.0 miles
Marshall Street Tesco Alighting Stop
BCT · Alfreton
- 0.1 miles
Alfreton Bus Station
BCS · Alfreton
- 0.1 miles
Alfreton Bus Station
BCS · Alfreton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Amber Valley 001B, 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
5,757 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
1,318 published events cover 12 months, averaging 109.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 531 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.