Property market
The five-year median is £372,500 from 3 recorded sales in DE56 2JA. 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 2JA
Belper North · Amber Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Belper
- Ward
- Belper North
- Local authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE56 2JA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 2
- Latitude
- 53.036446
- Longitude
- -1.496196
- British National Grid easting
- 433,880
- British National Grid northing
- 348,913
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
- E00098196
- Lower layer super output area
- Amber Valley 007B · E01019414
- 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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Handley Wood Drive, Belper, DE56 2JA | 11 July 2025 | £319,950 |
| 10, Handley Wood Drive, Belper, DE56 2JA | 11 July 2025 | £372,500 |
| 4, Handley Wood Drive, Belper, DE56 2JA | 9 July 2025 | £392,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 1
- 1.2 km
St Elizabeth's Catholic Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Long Row Primary School
Community school
- 1.9 km
St John's CofE Primary School and Nursery
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 212
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 104
- Anti social behaviour 26
- Public order 22
- Other theft 19
- Criminal damage and arson 18
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- 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
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+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Gigabit-capable
- 80%
- 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
2
within 5 km straight-line
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
57 - 59 BRIDGE STREET, BELPER, DE56 1AY
ODS code C81069
1.6 km
WHITEMOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITEMOOR LANE, BELPER, DE56 0JB
ODS code C81038
2.8 km
Nearby transport
- 126 m
Bridgehill Way
BCT · Belper
- 151 m
Bridgehill Way
BCT · Belper
- 265 m
Whitehouse Rise
BCT · Belper
- 350 m
Belper Lane
BCT · Belper
- 363 m
Knowl Avenue
BCT · Belper
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Amber Valley 007B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,838 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 1 secondary schools. St Elizabeth's Catholic Voluntary Academy is the nearest published school at 1.2 km.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
212 published events cover 12 months, averaging 18 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 104 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.