Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Long Row Primary School is the nearest published school at 68 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE56 1BJ
Belper North · Amber Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Belper North
- Local authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE56 1BJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 March 2025
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 1
- Latitude
- 53.027809
- Longitude
- -1.486098
- British National Grid easting
- 434,564
- British National Grid northing
- 347,957
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Amber Valley · E07000032
- Electoral ward
- Belper North · E05014693
- Parish or community
- E04002667
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Derbyshire · E14001362
- Output area
- E00098187
- Lower layer super output area
- Amber Valley 010B · E01019415
- Middle layer super output area
- Amber Valley 010 · E02004038
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
- 19
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 68 m
Long Row Primary School
Community school
- 430 m
St Elizabeth's Catholic Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
St John's CofE Primary School and Nursery
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 841
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 380
- Anti social behaviour 93
- Shoplifting 81
- Public order 80
- Criminal damage and arson 71
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
57 - 59 BRIDGE STREET, BELPER, DE56 1AY
ODS code C81069
417 m
WHITEMOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITEMOOR LANE, BELPER, DE56 0JB
ODS code C81038
2.1 km
APPLETREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
47A TOWN STREET, DUFFIELD, BELPER, DE56 4GG
ODS code C81048
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Triangle
BCT · Belper
- 0.0 miles
Triangle
BCT · Belper
- 0.1 miles
Mill
BCT · Belper
- 0.1 miles
Mill
BCT · Belper
- 0.2 miles
Talbot Hotel
BCT · Belper
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Amber Valley 010B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,292 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
841 published events cover 12 months, averaging 70.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 380 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.