Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 5 secondary schools. Riddings Junior School is the nearest published school at 608 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE55 4FF
Somercotes · Amber Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Somercotes
- Local authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Amber Valley
- Postcode district
- DE55
- Postcode sector
- DE55 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE55 4FF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE55
- Postcode sector
- DE55 4
- Latitude
- 53.074818
- Longitude
- -1.358963
- British National Grid easting
- 443,044
- British National Grid northing
- 353,255
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Amber Valley · E07000032
- Electoral ward
- Somercotes · E05014706
- Parish or community
- E04002692
- Westminster constituency
- Amber Valley · E14001066
- Output area
- E00098463
- Lower layer super output area
- Amber Valley 003C · E01019468
- Middle layer super output area
- Amber Valley 003 · E02004031
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 DE55
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 5
- 608 m
Riddings Junior School
Academy converter
- 711 m
Riddings Infant and Nursery School
Community school
- 778 m
Somerlea Park Junior School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,281
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 571
- Anti social behaviour 148
- Public order 116
- Criminal damage and arson 109
- Shoplifting 87
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DE55 4 residents
- 8,135
Age bands in DE55 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.3%
1,558 residents
947 residents
2,203 residents
2,300 residents
1,470 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
9
within 5 km
JESSOP MEDICAL PRACTICE
GREENHILL PRIM CARE CTR, GREENHILL LANE, LEABROOKS, ALFRETON, DE55 1LU
ODS code C81005
890 m
SOMERCOTES MEDICAL CENTRE
22 NOTTINGHAM ROAD, SOMERCOTES, ALFRETON, DE55 4JJ
ODS code C81027
1.2 km
JACKSDALE MEDICAL CENTRE
8 MAIN ROAD, JACKSDALE, NOTTINGHAM, NG16 5JW
ODS code C84654
2.3 km
LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
LIMES AVENUE, ALFRETON, DE55 7DW
ODS code C81099
3.3 km
PARKSIDE SURGERY
ALFRETON PRIMARY CARE CTR, CHURCH STREET, ALFRETON, DE55 7AH
ODS code C81053
3.4 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY
THE HUB, SHINERS WAY, OFF LEES LANE, SOUTH NORMANTON, ALFRETON, DE55 2FY
ODS code C81050
3.6 km
SELSTON SURGERY
139 NOTTINGHAM ROAD, SELSTON, NOTTINGHAM, NG16 6BT
ODS code C84142
4.0 km
RIPLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
DERBY ROAD, RIPLEY, DE5 3HR
ODS code C81059
4.4 km
IVY GROVE SURGERY
CHURCH FARM MEDICAL CENTRE, STEEPLE DRIVE, RIPLEY, DE5 3TH
ODS code C81004
4.7 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Black Horse
BCT · Somercotes
- 0.1 miles
Black Horse
BCT · Somercotes
- 0.1 miles
Spencer Drive
BCT · Somercotes
- 0.1 miles
Riddings House
BCT · Somercotes
- 0.2 miles
Windmill Rise
BCT · Somercotes
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Amber Valley 003C, 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
6,633 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
1,281 published events cover 12 months, averaging 106.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 571 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.