Schools
34 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 3 secondary schools. Croft Infant School is the nearest published school at 308 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE56 1AJ
Alfreton · Amber Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Alfreton
- Local authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Amber Valley
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE56 1AJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 1
- Latitude
- 53.096962
- Longitude
- -1.390652
- British National Grid easting
- 440,900
- British National Grid northing
- 355,700
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
- E00098124
- Lower layer super output area
- Amber Valley 001B · E01019401
- 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 DE56
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 34
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 3
- 308 m
Croft Infant School
Community school
- 404 m
Alfreton Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 446 m
Alfreton Park Community Special School
Community special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,232
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 514
- Public order 124
- Anti social behaviour 119
- Shoplifting 112
- Criminal damage and arson 92
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DE56 1 residents
- 13,242
Age bands in DE56 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.2%
1,941 residents
1,277 residents
3,094 residents
4,019 residents
3,124 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
PARKSIDE SURGERY
ALFRETON PRIMARY CARE CTR, CHURCH STREET, ALFRETON, DE55 7AH
ODS code C81053
142 m
LIMES MEDICAL CENTRE
LIMES AVENUE, ALFRETON, DE55 7DW
ODS code C81099
253 m
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
2.8 km
THE VILLAGE SURGERY
THE HUB, SHINERS WAY, OFF LEES LANE, SOUTH NORMANTON, ALFRETON, DE55 2FY
ODS code C81050
3.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
King Street
BCT · Alfreton
- 0.1 miles
High Street Coach Stop
BCT · Alfreton
- 0.1 miles
High Street Boots Store
BCT · Alfreton
- 0.1 miles
Millfield House Temporary Stop
BCT · Alfreton
- 0.1 miles
High Street Community Transport Stop
BCT · Alfreton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Amber Valley 001B, 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
5,757 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
1,232 published events cover 12 months, averaging 102.667 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.