Property market
The five-year median is £237,500 from 1 recorded sale in DE56 2GP. 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 2GP
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 2GP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 2
- Latitude
- 53.056445
- Longitude
- -1.481058
- British National Grid easting
- 434,879
- British National Grid northing
- 351,145
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
- E00098260
- 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
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Western Villas, Ambergate, Belper, DE56 2GP | 20 March 2026 | £237,500 |
| 8, Western Villas, Ambergate, Belper, DE56 2GP | 27 July 2020 | £150,000 |
| 4, Western Villas, Ambergate, Belper, DE56 2GP | 29 June 2017 | £96,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 18
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 1
- 107 m
Ambergate Primary School
Community school
- 1.9 km
Fritchley CofE (Aided) Primary & Nursery School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.0 km
Heage Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 76
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 36
- Public order 8
- Burglary 7
- Anti social behaviour 7
- Criminal damage and arson 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 21
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- DE56 2 residents
- 8,637
10 female, 11 male
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%
1,081 residents
748 residents
1,553 residents
2,823 residents
2,582 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
3
within 5 km
CRICH MEDICAL PRACTICE
OAKWELL DRIVE, CRICH, MATLOCK, DE4 5PB
ODS code C81094
3.2 km
WHITEMOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITEMOOR LANE, BELPER, DE56 0JB
ODS code C81038
3.3 km
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
57 - 59 BRIDGE STREET, BELPER, DE56 1AY
ODS code C81069
3.6 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
- 0.1 miles
White House
BCT · Ambergate
- 0.1 miles
White House
BCT · Ambergate
- 0.2 miles
St Annes Church
BCT · Ambergate
- 0.2 miles
West Bank
BCT · Ambergate
- 0.2 miles
Hurt Arms
BCT · Ambergate
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
- 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
18 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 1 secondary schools. Ambergate Primary School is the nearest published school at 107 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
76 published events cover 12 months, averaging 6.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 36 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.