Property market
The five-year median is £245,000 from 2 recorded sales in DE56 2AY. 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 2AY
Heage & Ambergate · Amber Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Belper
- Ward
- Heage & Ambergate
- Local authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Amber Valley
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE56 2AY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 2
- Latitude
- 53.052367
- Longitude
- -1.463577
- British National Grid easting
- 436,054
- British National Grid northing
- 350,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Amber Valley · E07000032
- Electoral ward
- Heage & Ambergate · E05014698
- Parish or community
- E04002688
- Westminster constituency
- Amber Valley · E14001066
- Output area
- E00098270
- Lower layer super output area
- Amber Valley 007D · E01019430
- Middle layer super output area
- Amber Valley 007 · E02004035
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
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 16, Bankview Road, Nether Heage, Belper, DE56 2AY | 19 November 2021 | £265,000 |
| 26, Bankview Road, Nether Heage, Belper, DE56 2AY | 23 September 2021 | £225,000 |
| 3, Bankview Road, Nether Heage, Belper, DE56 2AY | 12 September 2017 | £187,500 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 22
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 715 m
Heage Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Ambergate Primary School
Community school
- 2.2 km
Fritchley CofE (Aided) Primary & Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 148
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 80
- Public order 16
- Burglary 11
- Criminal damage and arson 10
- Other theft 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 31
- 16 female, 15 male
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- DE56 2 residents
- 8,637
Age bands in DE56 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.3%
- 1,081 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- 748 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- 1,553 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.1%
- 2,823 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 29.4%
- 2,582 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DE56 2 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
5
within 5 km straight-line
WHITEMOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITEMOOR LANE, BELPER, DE56 0JB
ODS code C81038
2.4 km
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
57 - 59 BRIDGE STREET, BELPER, DE56 1AY
ODS code C81069
3.5 km
CRICH MEDICAL PRACTICE
OAKWELL DRIVE, CRICH, MATLOCK, DE4 5PB
ODS code C81094
3.9 km
RIPLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
DERBY ROAD, RIPLEY, DE5 3HR
ODS code C81059
3.9 km
IVY GROVE SURGERY
CHURCH FARM MEDICAL CENTRE, STEEPLE DRIVE, RIPLEY, DE5 3TH
ODS code C81004
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 87 m
Malthouse Lane
BCT · Nether Heage
- 89 m
Shop Lane
BCT · Nether Heage
- 95 m
Shop Lane
BCT · Nether Heage
- 101 m
Gun Lane
BCT · Nether Heage
- 147 m
Gadsby Rise
BCT · Nether Heage
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Amber Valley 007D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,666 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 1
- 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 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Heage Primary School is the nearest published school at 715 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
148 published events cover 12 months, averaging 12 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 80 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.