Schools
35 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 3 secondary schools. Newton Primary School is the nearest published school at 434 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE55 5UJ
Blackwell · Bolsover · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE55 5UJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE55
- Postcode sector
- DE55 5
- Latitude
- 53.129075
- Longitude
- -1.343869
- British National Grid easting
- 444,000
- British National Grid northing
- 359,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Bolsover · E07000033
- Electoral ward
- Blackwell · E05011985
- Parish or community
- E04002700
- Westminster constituency
- Bolsover · E14001109
- Output area
- E00098524
- Lower layer super output area
- Bolsover 008A · E01019480
- Middle layer super output area
- Bolsover 008 · E02004052
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
- 35
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 3
- 434 m
Newton Primary School
Community school
- 1.0 km
Town End Junior School
Community school
- 1.1 km
Blackwell Community Primary and Nursery School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 430
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 173
- Anti social behaviour 54
- Criminal damage and arson 50
- Public order 47
- Other theft 27
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DE55 5 residents
- 8,579
Age bands in DE55 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.1%
1,392 residents
878 residents
2,071 residents
2,465 residents
1,817 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
STAFFA HEALTH
3 WAVERLEY STREET, TIBSHELF, ALFRETON, DE55 5PS
ODS code C81029
1.9 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY
THE HUB, SHINERS WAY, OFF LEES LANE, SOUTH NORMANTON, ALFRETON, DE55 2FY
ODS code C81050
2.6 km
BRIERLEY PARK MEDICAL GROUP
HUTHWAITE SUITE, 127 SUTTON ROAD, HUTHWAITE, SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD, NG17 2NF
ODS code C84077
3.1 km
WOODLANDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BLUEBELL WOOD WAY, SUTTON-IN-ASHFIELD, NG17 1JW
ODS code C84014
4.4 km
LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
LIMES AVENUE, ALFRETON, DE55 7DW
ODS code C81099
4.5 km
PARKSIDE SURGERY
ALFRETON PRIMARY CARE CTR, CHURCH STREET, ALFRETON, DE55 7AH
ODS code C81053
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
George And Dragon
BCT · Newton
- 0.2 miles
Thurcaton Way
BCT · Newton
- 0.2 miles
Thurcaton Way
BCT · Newton
- 0.2 miles
George And Dragon
BCT · Newton
- 0.2 miles
New Street
BCT · Newton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bolsover 008A, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,029 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
430 published events cover 12 months, averaging 35.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 173 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.