Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Hilton Spencer Academy is the nearest published school at 646 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE6 5FL
Hilton · South Derbyshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Hilton
- Local authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- Derbyshire Dales
- Postcode district
- DE6
- Postcode sector
- DE6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE6 5FL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE6
- Postcode sector
- DE6 5
- Latitude
- 52.873312
- Longitude
- -1.623687
- British National Grid easting
- 425,426
- British National Grid northing
- 330,713
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- South Derbyshire · E07000039
- Electoral ward
- Hilton · E05008813
- Parish or community
- E04002908
- Westminster constituency
- Derbyshire Dales · E14001195
- Output area
- E00100435
- Lower layer super output area
- South Derbyshire 002C · E01019847
- Middle layer super output area
- South Derbyshire 002 · E02004119
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 DE6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 646 m
Hilton Spencer Academy
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
The Mease Spencer Academy
Free schools
- 1.7 km
Longdon Park School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 387
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 194
- Anti social behaviour 48
- Criminal damage and arson 41
- Public order 24
- Other theft 23
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DE6 5 residents
- 4,513
Age bands in DE6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.4%
541 residents
398 residents
984 residents
1,257 residents
1,028 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
WELLBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
WELLAND ROAD, HILTON, DERBY, DE65 5GZ
ODS code C81110
734 m
DOVE RIVER
TUTBURY HEALTH CENTRE, MONK STREET, TUTBURY, BURTON-ON-TRENT, DE13 9NA
ODS code C81018
4.5 km
TUTBURY HEALTH CENTRE
MONK STREET, TUTBURY, BURTON-ON-TRENT, DE13 9NA
ODS code M83037
4.5 km
WILLINGTON SURGERY
KINGFISHER LANE, WILLINGTON, DERBY, DE65 6QT
ODS code C81057
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Bren Way
BCT · Hilton
- 0.2 miles
Mulberry Way
BCT · Hilton
- 0.2 miles
Bren Way
BCT · Hilton
- 0.2 miles
Mulberry Way
BCT · Hilton
- 0.2 miles
New Road
BCT · Hilton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Derbyshire 002C, 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
27,810 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
387 published events cover 12 months, averaging 32.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 194 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.