Property market
The five-year median is £243,000 from 3 recorded sales in DE56 1LJ. 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 1LJ
Belper South · Amber Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Belper
- Ward
- Belper South
- Local authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE56 1LJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 1
- Latitude
- 53.020794
- Longitude
- -1.468874
- British National Grid easting
- 435,725
- British National Grid northing
- 347,185
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Amber Valley · E07000032
- Electoral ward
- Belper South · E05014694
- Parish or community
- E04002667
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Derbyshire · E14001362
- Output area
- E00098207
- Lower layer super output area
- Amber Valley 011C · E01019418
- Middle layer super output area
- Amber Valley 011 · E02004039
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
23 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Kirks Lane, Belper, DE56 1LJ | 18 December 2024 | £170,000 |
| 16, Kirks Lane, Belper, DE56 1LJ | 26 June 2024 | £243,000 |
| 6, Kirks Lane, Belper, DE56 1LJ | 30 January 2023 | £248,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 24
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 520 m
Herbert Strutt Primary School
Community school
- 879 m
Pottery Primary School
Community school
- 994 m
St John's CofE Primary School and Nursery
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,014
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 473
- Anti social behaviour 110
- Public order 102
- Shoplifting 86
- Criminal damage and arson 82
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 34
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- DE56 1 residents
- 13,242
16 female, 18 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 0.3% 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
1.1 km
WHITEMOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITEMOOR LANE, BELPER, DE56 0JB
ODS code C81038
1.5 km
ARTHUR MEDICAL CENTRE
MAIN STREET, HORSLEY WOODHOUSE, ILKESTON, DE7 6AX
ODS code C81017
3.8 km
APPLETREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
47A TOWN STREET, DUFFIELD, BELPER, DE56 4GG
ODS code C81048
4.2 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Kirks Lane
BCT · Parks Estate
- 0.1 miles
Kirks Lane
BCT · Parks Estate
- 0.1 miles
Maple Drive
BCT · Parks Estate
- 0.1 miles
Maple Drive
BCT · Parks Estate
- 0.2 miles
Park Road Shops
BCT · Parks Estate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Amber Valley 011C, 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
23,215 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Herbert Strutt Primary School is the nearest published school at 520 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,014 published events cover 12 months, averaging 84.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 473 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.