Schools
36 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 4 secondary schools. Leys Junior School is the nearest published school at 521 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE5 9SU
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 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE5 9SU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 2010
- Terminated
- 1 October 2012
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE5
- Postcode sector
- DE5 9
- Latitude
- 53.100201
- Longitude
- -1.372147
- British National Grid easting
- 442,136
- British National Grid northing
- 356,071
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
- E00098126
- Lower layer super output area
- Amber Valley 001A · E01019400
- 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
- 26
- Secondary
- 4
- 521 m
Leys Junior School
Community school
- 794 m
Christ the King Catholic Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 883 m
Copthorne Community Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,239
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 514
- Public order 126
- Anti social behaviour 118
- Shoplifting 112
- Criminal damage and arson 101
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DE5 9 residents
- 5,006
Age bands in DE5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.5%
694 residents
473 residents
1,099 residents
1,416 residents
1,258 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
LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
LIMES AVENUE, ALFRETON, DE55 7DW
ODS code C81099
1.1 km
PARKSIDE SURGERY
ALFRETON PRIMARY CARE CTR, CHURCH STREET, ALFRETON, DE55 7AH
ODS code C81053
1.3 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY
THE HUB, SHINERS WAY, OFF LEES LANE, SOUTH NORMANTON, ALFRETON, DE55 2FY
ODS code C81050
2.0 km
SOMERCOTES MEDICAL CENTRE
22 NOTTINGHAM ROAD, SOMERCOTES, ALFRETON, DE55 4JJ
ODS code C81027
2.0 km
JESSOP MEDICAL PRACTICE
GREENHILL PRIM CARE CTR, GREENHILL LANE, LEABROOKS, ALFRETON, DE55 1LU
ODS code C81005
2.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Alfreton
- 0.1 miles
Railway Station
BCT · Alfreton
- 0.1 miles
Station Forecourt
BCT · Alfreton
- 0.1 miles
Alfreton Rail Station
RSE · Alfreton
- 0.1 miles
Alfreton Rail Station
RLY · Alfreton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Amber Valley 001A, 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
6,309 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 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
1,239 published events cover 12 months, averaging 103.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 514 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.