Property market
The five-year median is £283,500 from 13 recorded sales in DE72 3QW. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Erewash is £217,901 in June 2026, up 2.4% year on year.
DE72 3QW
Ockbrook & Borrowash · Erewash · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Derby
- Ward
- Ockbrook & Borrowash
- Local authority
- Erewash
- Constituency
- Mid Derbyshire
- Postcode district
- DE72
- Postcode sector
- DE72 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE72 3QW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE72
- Postcode sector
- DE72 3
- Latitude
- 52.902803
- Longitude
- -1.378718
- British National Grid easting
- 441,886
- British National Grid northing
- 334,108
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Erewash · E07000036
- Electoral ward
- Ockbrook & Borrowash · E05010617
- Parish or community
- E04002832
- Westminster constituency
- Mid Derbyshire · E14001362
- Output area
- E00099587
- Lower layer super output area
- Erewash 009B · E01019684
- Middle layer super output area
- Erewash 009 · E02004086
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
172 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 33, Mear Drive, Borrowash, Derby, DE72 3QW | 24 February 2026 | £395,000 |
| 41, Mear Drive, Borrowash, Derby, DE72 3QW | 12 September 2025 | £283,500 |
| 22, Mear Drive, Borrowash, Derby, DE72 3QW | 18 July 2025 | £367,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 4
- 773 m
Ashbrook Infant School
Community school
- 773 m
Ashbrook Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.6 km
Asterdale Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 326
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 147
- Anti social behaviour 34
- Vehicle crime 32
- Burglary 29
- Other theft 20
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 189
- Postcode households
- 74
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- DE72 3 residents
- 16,006
92 female, 97 male
Age bands in DE72 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 26%
2,295 residents
1,419 residents
3,305 residents
4,664 residents
4,101 residents
This postcode contained 1.2% 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
OVERDALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
207 VICTORIA AVENUE, BORROWASH, DERBY, DE72 3HG
ODS code C81066
1.1 km
CHAPEL STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
10 CHAPEL STREET, SPONDON, DERBY, DE21 7RJ
ODS code C81068
2.7 km
ALVASTON MEDICAL CENTRE
14 BOULTON LANE, ALVASTON, DERBY, DE24 0GE
ODS code C81047
3.6 km
THE PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
MAINE DRIVE, CHADDESDEN, DERBY, DE21 6LA
ODS code C81051
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Barrons Way
BCT · Borrowash
- 0.2 miles
Barrons Way
BCT · Borrowash
- 0.2 miles
Victoria Avenue
BCT · Borrowash
- 0.3 miles
Shacklecross Close
BCT · Borrowash
- 0.3 miles
Shacklecross Close
BCT · Borrowash
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Erewash 009B, 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
32,062 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 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.
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
- 2
- 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
Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 4 secondary schools. Ashbrook Infant School is the nearest published school at 773 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
326 published events cover 12 months, averaging 27.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 147 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.