Property market
The five-year median is £302,500 from 4 recorded sales in DE56 1FU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Amber Valley is £237,857 in June 2026, up 7.9% year on year.
DE56 1FU
Belper East · Amber Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Belper
- Ward
- Belper East
- Local authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE56 1FU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 1
- Latitude
- 53.025030
- Longitude
- -1.477573
- British National Grid easting
- 435,138
- British National Grid northing
- 347,652
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Amber Valley · E07000032
- Electoral ward
- Belper East · E05014692
- Parish or community
- E04002667
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Derbyshire · E14001362
- Output area
- E00098155
- Lower layer super output area
- Amber Valley 010A · E01019407
- 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
Property
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Primary Close, Belper, DE56 1FU | 18 June 2025 | £315,000 |
| 11, Primary Close, Belper, DE56 1FU | 8 December 2023 | £290,000 |
| 12, Primary Close, Belper, DE56 1FU | 17 February 2023 | £320,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 3
- 583 m
Long Row Primary School
Community school
- 694 m
St Elizabeth's Catholic Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 705 m
St John's CofE Primary School and Nursery
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 945
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 434
- Anti social behaviour 104
- Public order 99
- Shoplifting 85
- Criminal damage and arson 78
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- DE56 1 residents
- 13,242
14 female, 11 male
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
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DE56 1 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
4
within 5 km
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
57 - 59 BRIDGE STREET, BELPER, DE56 1AY
ODS code C81069
508 m
WHITEMOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITEMOOR LANE, BELPER, DE56 0JB
ODS code C81038
1.6 km
APPLETREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
47A TOWN STREET, DUFFIELD, BELPER, DE56 4GG
ODS code C81048
4.5 km
ARTHUR MEDICAL CENTRE
MAIN STREET, HORSLEY WOODHOUSE, ILKESTON, DE7 6AX
ODS code C81017
4.5 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Church Lane
BCT · Belper
- 0.0 miles
Primary Close
BCT · Belper
- 0.1 miles
Osmaston Grange
BCT · Belper
- 0.1 miles
Osmaston Grange
BCT · Belper
- 0.1 miles
Church Lane
BCT · Belper
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Amber Valley 010A, 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
16,833 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 0
- 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
Schools
22 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. Long Row Primary School is the nearest published school at 583 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
945 published events cover 12 months, averaging 78.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 434 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.