Schools
47 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 6 secondary schools. Chaucer Junior School is the nearest published school at 397 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE7 5AA
Larklands · Erewash · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE7 5AA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2014
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE7
- Postcode sector
- DE7 5
- Latitude
- 52.976090
- Longitude
- -1.300213
- British National Grid easting
- 447,087
- British National Grid northing
- 342,309
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Erewash · E07000036
- Electoral ward
- Larklands · E05010612
- Parish or community
- E43000049
- Westminster constituency
- Erewash · E14001228
- Output area
- E00099479
- Lower layer super output area
- Erewash 003B · E01019660
- Middle layer super output area
- Erewash 003 · E02004080
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 DE7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 47
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 6
- 397 m
Chaucer Junior School
Academy converter
- 557 m
Chaucer Infant School
Academy converter
- 817 m
Larklands Infant School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,014
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,336
- Anti social behaviour 319
- Shoplifting 294
- Public order 292
- Criminal damage and arson 218
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 7
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 1.8
- DE7 5 residents
- 10,477
2 female, 5 male
Age bands in DE7 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.9%
1,675 residents
1,111 residents
2,750 residents
2,723 residents
1,926 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DE7 5 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
13
within 5 km
OLD STATION SURGERY
HEANOR ROAD, ILKESTON, DE7 8ES
ODS code C81021
881 m
GLADSTONE HOUSE SURGERY
GLADSTONE STREET, ILKESTON, DE7 5QS
ODS code C81115
959 m
SOUTH STREET SURGERY
ILKESTON HEALTH CENTRE, SOUTH STREET, ILKESTON, DE7 5PZ
ODS code C81022
1.0 km
LITTLEWICK MEDICAL CENTRE
NOTTINGHAM ROAD, ILKESTON, DE7 5PR
ODS code C81061
1.1 km
EDEN SURGERY
CAVENDISH ROAD, ILKESTON, DE7 5AN
ODS code C81604
1.5 km
GILTBROOK SURGERY
492 NOTTINGHAM ROAD, GILTBROOK, NOTTINGHAM, NG16 2GE
ODS code C84667
3.7 km
HAMA MEDICAL CENTRE
11A NOTTINGHAM ROAD, KIMBERLEY, NOTTINGHAM, NG16 2NB
ODS code C84624
3.9 km
NEWTHORPE MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWTHORPE MEDICAL CENTRE, HARVEST ROAD, EASTWOOD, NOTTINGHAM, NG16 3HU
ODS code C84131
4.0 km
WEST HALLAM MEDICAL CTR
THE DALES, WEST HALLAM VILLAGE, ILKESTON, DE7 6GR
ODS code C81046
4.1 km
EASTWOOD PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, CHURCH STREET SITE
11B CHURCH STREET, EASTWOOD, NOTTINGHAM, NG16 3BS
ODS code C84032
4.5 km
GRANGE FARM MEDICAL CENTRE
17A TREMAYNE ROAD, BILBOROUGH, NOTTINGHAM, NG8 4HQ
ODS code Y03124
4.7 km
BILBOROUGH MEDICAL CENTRE
48 BRACEBRIDGE DRIVE, NOTTINGHAM, NG8 4PN
ODS code Y06356
4.8 km
BROAD OAK MEDICAL PRACTICE
STRELLEY HEALTH CENTRE, 116 STRELLEY ROAD, NOTTINGHAM, NG8 6LN
ODS code Y06792
4.9 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Canal Stret
BCS · Ilkeston
- 0.1 miles
Canal Street
BCT · Ilkeston
- 0.1 miles
Taylor Street
BCT · Ilkeston
- 0.1 miles
Waterside Retail Park
BCT · Ilkeston
- 0.2 miles
Waterside Retail Park
BCT · Ilkeston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Erewash 003B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,620 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
Recorded crime
3,014 published events cover 12 months, averaging 251.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,336 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.