Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 16 primary and 3 secondary schools. Long Row Primary School is the nearest published school at 999 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE56 2WB
Belper North · Amber Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 2WB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 May 2002
- Terminated
- 1 May 2004
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE56
- Postcode sector
- DE56 2
- Latitude
- 53.022410
- Longitude
- -1.497329
- British National Grid easting
- 433,815
- British National Grid northing
- 347,351
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
- E00098189
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 16
- Secondary
- 3
- 999 m
Long Row Primary School
Community school
- 1.4 km
St Elizabeth's Catholic Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 2.0 km
St John's CofE Primary School and Nursery
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 577
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 231
- Shoplifting 78
- Anti social behaviour 60
- Public order 55
- Other theft 52
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%
- 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
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.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
RIVERSDALE SURGERY
57 - 59 BRIDGE STREET, BELPER, DE56 1AY
ODS code C81069
849 m
WHITEMOOR MEDICAL CENTRE
WHITEMOOR LANE, BELPER, DE56 0JB
ODS code C81038
3.0 km
APPLETREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
47A TOWN STREET, DUFFIELD, BELPER, DE56 4GG
ODS code C81048
4.2 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Marle
BCT · Farnah Green
- 0.1 miles
Frith Knoll
BCT · Blackbrook
- 0.1 miles
Frith Knoll
BCT · Blackbrook
- 0.3 miles
North Lane
BCT · Farnah Green
- 0.3 miles
North Lane
BCT · Farnah Green
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
Recorded crime
577 published events cover 12 months, averaging 48.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 231 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.