Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 3 secondary schools. Long Row Primary School is the nearest published school at 383 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE56 1QG
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 1QG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2024
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 1
- Latitude
- 53.024344
- Longitude
- -1.487094
- British National Grid easting
- 434,500
- British National Grid northing
- 347,571
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
- E00098159
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 19
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 3
- 383 m
Long Row Primary School
Community school
- 790 m
St Elizabeth's Catholic Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
St John's CofE Primary School and Nursery
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 824
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 375
- Anti social behaviour 92
- Public order 80
- Shoplifting 78
- Criminal damage and arson 68
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.
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
57 - 59 BRIDGE STREET, BELPER, DE56 1AY
ODS code C81069
143 m
WHITEMOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITEMOOR LANE, BELPER, DE56 0JB
ODS code C81038
2.3 km
APPLETREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
47A TOWN STREET, DUFFIELD, BELPER, DE56 4GG
ODS code C81048
4.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Lion Hotel
BCT · Belper
- 0.1 miles
The Lion Hotel
BCT · Belper
- 0.2 miles
King Street
BCT · Belper
- 0.2 miles
Belper Rail Station
RSE · Belper
- 0.2 miles
Bus Garage
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
824 published events cover 12 months, averaging 68.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 375 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.