Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 2 secondary schools. Shirland Primary School is the nearest published school at 625 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE55 6ZA
Shirland · North East Derbyshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Shirland
- Local authority
- North East Derbyshire
- Constituency
- Bolsover
- Postcode district
- DE55
- Postcode sector
- DE55 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE55 6ZA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- 1 December 1994
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE55
- Postcode sector
- DE55 6
- Latitude
- 53.122235
- Longitude
- -1.411215
- British National Grid easting
- 439,500
- British National Grid northing
- 358,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- North East Derbyshire · E07000038
- Electoral ward
- Shirland · E05012059
- Parish or community
- E04002877
- Westminster constituency
- Bolsover · E14001109
- Output area
- E00100295
- Lower layer super output area
- North East Derbyshire 013C · E01019818
- Middle layer super output area
- North East Derbyshire 013 · E02004117
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
- 23
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 2
- 625 m
Shirland Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Mickley Village Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 1.8 km
Stonebroom Primary and Nursery School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 228
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 117
- Public order 28
- Anti social behaviour 19
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Other theft 15
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DE55 6 residents
- 7,986
Age bands in DE55 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.5%
1,364 residents
691 residents
1,830 residents
2,297 residents
1,899 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
3
within 5 km straight-line
PARKSIDE SURGERY
ALFRETON PRIMARY CARE CTR, CHURCH STREET, ALFRETON, DE55 7AH
ODS code C81053
3.0 km
LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
LIMES AVENUE, ALFRETON, DE55 7DW
ODS code C81099
3.1 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY
THE HUB, SHINERS WAY, OFF LEES LANE, SOUTH NORMANTON, ALFRETON, DE55 2FY
ODS code C81050
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Byron Street
BCT · Shirland
- 0.1 miles
Lilac Way
BCT · Shirland
- 0.1 miles
Lilac Way
BCT · Shirland
- 0.2 miles
Hallfields Rise
BCT · Hallfield Gate
- 0.2 miles
Hallfields Rise
BCT · Hallfield Gate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North East Derbyshire 013C, 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
5,859 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
228 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 117 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.