Schools
20 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 1 secondary schools. Shardlow Primary School is the nearest published school at 598 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE72 2HB
Aston · South Derbyshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Aston
- Local authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire
- Postcode district
- DE72
- Postcode sector
- DE72 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE72 2HB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1992
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE72
- Postcode sector
- DE72 2
- Latitude
- 52.865790
- Longitude
- -1.362697
- British National Grid easting
- 443,000
- British National Grid northing
- 330,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- South Derbyshire · E07000039
- Electoral ward
- Aston · E05008809
- Parish or community
- E04002922
- Westminster constituency
- South Derbyshire · E14001483
- Output area
- E00100374
- Lower layer super output area
- South Derbyshire 004A · E01019832
- Middle layer super output area
- South Derbyshire 004 · E02004121
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 DE72
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 20
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 1
- 598 m
Shardlow Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.4 km
Welden School
Other independent special school
- 1.6 km
Aston-on-Trent Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 105
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 31
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Burglary 11
- Other theft 11
- Criminal damage and arson 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DE72 2 residents
- 4,445
Age bands in DE72 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.5%
606 residents
376 residents
776 residents
1,440 residents
1,213 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
1
within 5 km straight-line
CASTLE DONINGTON SURGERY
53 BOROUGH STREET, CASTLE DONINGTON, DERBY, DE74 2LB
ODS code C82007
3.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Aston Lane
BCT · Shardlow
- 0.4 miles
Cheal Close
BCT · Shardlow
- 0.4 miles
Cheal Close
BCT · Shardlow
- 0.4 miles
Dog and Duck
BCT · Shardlow
- 0.4 miles
Primary School
BCT · Shardlow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Derbyshire 004A, 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
21,268 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
105 published events cover 12 months, averaging 8.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 31 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.