Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 3 secondary schools. David Nieper Academy is the nearest published school at 211 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE5 7HR
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 7HR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE5
- Postcode sector
- DE5 7
- Latitude
- 53.096163
- Longitude
- -1.383749
- British National Grid easting
- 441,363
- British National Grid northing
- 355,615
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
- E00098128
- Lower layer super output area
- Amber Valley 001D · E01019404
- 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
- 36
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 3
- 211 m
David Nieper Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 288 m
Croft Infant School
Community school
- 294 m
Woodbridge Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,347
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 532
- Shoplifting 156
- Anti social behaviour 132
- Public order 128
- Criminal damage and arson 98
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 straight-line
LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
LIMES AVENUE, ALFRETON, DE55 7DW
ODS code C81099
381 m
PARKSIDE SURGERY
ALFRETON PRIMARY CARE CTR, CHURCH STREET, ALFRETON, DE55 7AH
ODS code C81053
561 m
SOMERCOTES MEDICAL CENTRE
22 NOTTINGHAM ROAD, SOMERCOTES, ALFRETON, DE55 4JJ
ODS code C81027
1.7 km
JESSOP MEDICAL PRACTICE
GREENHILL PRIM CARE CTR, GREENHILL LANE, LEABROOKS, ALFRETON, DE55 1LU
ODS code C81005
2.5 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY
THE HUB, SHINERS WAY, OFF LEES LANE, SOUTH NORMANTON, ALFRETON, DE55 2FY
ODS code C81050
2.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ellesmere Avenue
BCT · Alfreton
- 0.1 miles
Cressy Road
BCT · Alfreton
- 0.1 miles
Ellesmere Avenue
BCT · Alfreton
- 0.2 miles
Firs Avenue
BCT · Alfreton
- 0.2 miles
Alfreton Bus Station
BCS · Alfreton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Amber Valley 001D, 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
13,338 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 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
1,347 published events cover 12 months, averaging 112.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 532 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.