Schools
19 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Hilton Spencer Academy is the nearest published school at 929 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE6 5GE
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 5GE
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1983
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE6
- Postcode sector
- DE6 5
- Latitude
- 52.867866
- Longitude
- -1.644917
- British National Grid easting
- 424,000
- British National Grid northing
- 330,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- South Derbyshire · E07000039
- Electoral ward
- Hilton · E05008813
- Parish or community
- E04002913
- Westminster constituency
- Derbyshire Dales · E14001195
- Output area
- E00174597
- Lower layer super output area
- South Derbyshire 002F · E01033532
- 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
- 19
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 2
- 929 m
Hilton Spencer Academy
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
The Mease Spencer Academy
Free schools
- 2.3 km
Wellbrook School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 352
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 175
- Anti social behaviour 45
- Criminal damage and arson 38
- Public order 20
- Other theft 19
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
3
within 5 km straight-line
WELLBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
WELLAND ROAD, HILTON, DERBY, DE65 5GZ
ODS code C81110
946 m
DOVE RIVER
TUTBURY HEALTH CENTRE, MONK STREET, TUTBURY, BURTON-ON-TRENT, DE13 9NA
ODS code C81018
3.0 km
TUTBURY HEALTH CENTRE
MONK STREET, TUTBURY, BURTON-ON-TRENT, DE13 9NA
ODS code M83037
3.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
The Mease Meadow
BCT · Hilton
- 0.2 miles
The Mease Meadow
BCT · Hilton
- 0.2 miles
Welland Road
BCT · Hilton
- 0.3 miles
Welland Road
BCT · Hilton
- 0.3 miles
Alpha House
BCT · Hilton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Derbyshire 002F, 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
29,585 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
352 published events cover 12 months, averaging 29.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 175 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.