DE56 2DZ

Alport & South West Parishes · Amber Valley · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Ward: Alport & South West Parishes
Local authority: Amber Valley
Constituency: Derbyshire Dales
Postcode district: DE56
Postcode sector: DE56 2

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
DE56 2SL	499 m
DE56 2SB	670 m
DE56 2SF	711 m
DE56 2EA	880 m
DE56 2SG	1.0 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: DE56 2DZ
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 August 1992
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: DE
Postcode district: DE56
Postcode sector: DE56 2
Latitude: 53.029964
Longitude: -1.561967
British National Grid easting: 429,474
British National Grid northing: 348,163

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: East Midlands · E12000004
Local authority district: Amber Valley · E07000032
Electoral ward: Alport & South West Parishes · E05014691
Parish or community: E04002690
Westminster constituency: Derbyshire Dales · E14001195
Output area: E00098147
Lower layer super output area: Amber Valley 007A · E01019405
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

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 3
Primary: 3
Secondary: 0

Turnditch Church of England Primary School

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1.6 km
Kirk Ireton C of E Primary School

Voluntary controlled school
3.4 km
Hulland CofE Primary School

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4.9 km

Recorded crime

Within 1 mile of this postcode

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Published events: 11
Months covered: 12
Latest month: June 2026

Most recorded categories in this period

Violence and sexual offences 6
Other theft 2
Public order 2
Burglary 1

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 11
Postcode households: 4
Residents per household: 2.8
DE56 2 residents: 8,637

Age bands in DE56 2

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 12.3%
Age 15 to 24: 8.5%
Age 25 to 44: 17.7%
Age 45 to 64: 32.1%
Age 65 and over: 29.4%

This postcode contained 0.1% 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+: 83.3%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 83.3%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 83.3%
Gigabit-capable: 83.3%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 0%
Next Generation Access: 83.3%
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.

Nearby transport

Old Lane

BCT · Idridgehay
0.2 miles
Old Lane

BCT · Idridgehay
0.2 miles
Windley Lane

BCT · Idridgehay
0.2 miles
Windley Lane

BCT · Idridgehay
0.2 miles
Ecclesbourne Lane

BCT · Idridgehay
0.4 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Amber Valley 007A, 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

21,424 of 33,755

Income: 10 of 10
Employment: 10 of 10
Education and skills: 8 of 10
Health and disability: 10 of 10
Crime: 9 of 10
Housing and services: 1 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

3 open schools are in scope, including 3 primary and 0 secondary schools. Turnditch Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.

Recorded crime

11 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.

The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.