Property market
The five-year median is £902,250 from 2 recorded sales in DE56 2SS. 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 2SS
Alport & South West Parishes · Amber Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Belper
- Local authority
- Amber Valley
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE56 2SS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2010
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 2
- Latitude
- 53.038661
- Longitude
- -1.568128
- British National Grid easting
- 429,055
- British National Grid northing
- 349,128
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
- E04002678
- Westminster constituency
- Derbyshire Dales · E14001195
- Output area
- E00098146
- 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
Property
6 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Wallstone Farm House, Rood Lane, Idridgehay, Belper, DE56 2SS | 9 October 2025 | £902,500 |
| Ecclesbourne View, Rood Lane, Idridgehay, Belper, DE56 2SS | 28 September 2021 | £902,000 |
| Wallstone Farm House, Rood Lane, Idridgehay, Belper, DE56 2SS | 18 January 2019 | £800,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 5
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 1
- 2.5 km
Kirk Ireton C of E Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 2.6 km
Turnditch Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 4.5 km
Anthony Gell School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 2
- Public order 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 26
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- DE56 2 residents
- 8,637
10 female, 16 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 0.3% 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
1
within 5 km
HANNAGE BROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
HANNAGE WAY, WIRKSWORTH, MATLOCK, DE4 4JG
ODS code C81062
4.3 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Idridgehay (Ecclesbourne Valley Railway)
MET · Idridgehay
- 0.2 miles
Idridgehay (Ecclesbourne Valley Railway)
TMU · Idridgehay
- 0.2 miles
Idridgehay (Ecclesbourne Valley Railway)
PLT · Idridgehay
- 0.3 miles
The Black Swan
BCT · Idridgehay
- 0.3 miles
The Black Swan
BCT · Idridgehay
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
5 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 1 secondary schools. Kirk Ireton C of E Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.5 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.