Schools
33 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 4 secondary schools. Firfield Primary School is the nearest published school at 264 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE72 3BF
Breaston · Erewash · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE72 3BF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2009
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE72
- Postcode sector
- DE72 3
- Latitude
- 52.896475
- Longitude
- -1.310324
- British National Grid easting
- 446,493
- British National Grid northing
- 333,446
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Erewash · E07000036
- Electoral ward
- Breaston · E05010605
- Parish or community
- E04002826
- Westminster constituency
- Erewash · E14001228
- Output area
- E00099377
- Lower layer super output area
- Erewash 011A · E01019641
- Middle layer super output area
- Erewash 011 · E02004088
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
Property
18 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Astill Pine Close, Breaston, Derby, DE72 3BF | 28 August 2020 | £489,000 |
| 1, Astill Pine Close, Breaston, Derby, DE72 3BF | 8 December 2017 | £405,000 |
| 2, Astill Pine Close, Breaston, Derby, DE72 3BF | 10 November 2017 | £580,000 |
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 4
- 264 m
Firfield Primary School
Community school
- 552 m
Spring Valley School
Other independent special school
- 1.2 km
Dovedale Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 707
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 290
- Shoplifting 73
- Public order 71
- Anti social behaviour 66
- Other theft 51
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 31
- 14 female, 17 male
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 3.1
- DE72 3 residents
- 16,006
Age bands in DE72 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- 2,295 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- 1,419 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.9%
- 3,305 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- 4,664 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 26%
- 4,101 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DE72 3 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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
8
within 5 km straight-line
COLLEGE STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
86 COLLEGE STREET, LONG EATON, NOTTINGHAM, NG10 4NP
ODS code C81097
2.1 km
THE MOIR MEDICAL CENTRE
REGENT STREET, LONG EATON, NOTTINGHAM, NG10 1QQ
ODS code C81010
2.6 km
THE AITUNE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MIDLAND STREET, LONG EATON, NOTTINGHAM, NG10 1RY
ODS code C81023
2.6 km
WEST PARK SURGERY
MIDLAND STREET, LONG EATON, NOTTINGHAM, NG10 1RY
ODS code C81083
2.6 km
ADAM HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
85-91 DERBY ROAD, SANDIACRE, NOTTINGHAM, NG10 5HZ
ODS code C81026
3.1 km
SAXON CROSS SURGERY
STAPLEFORD CARE CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, STAPLEFORD, NOTTINGHAM, NG9 8DA
ODS code C84042
4.6 km
THE LINDEN MEDICAL GROUP
STAPLEFORD CARE CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, STAPLEFORD, NOTTINGHAM, NG9 8DA
ODS code C84107
4.6 km
OVERDALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
207 VICTORIA AVENUE, BORROWASH, DERBY, DE72 3HG
ODS code C81066
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 194 m
Maxwell Street
BCT · Breaston
- 212 m
Maxwell Street
BCT · Breaston
- 249 m
Firfield Avenue
BCT · Breaston
- 276 m
Firfield Avenue
BCT · Breaston
- 342 m
Poplar Road
BCT · Breaston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Erewash 011A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,954 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
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
707 published events cover 12 months, averaging 59 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 290 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.