Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 1 secondary schools. Melbourne Junior School is the nearest published school at 534 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE73 1BF
Melbourne · South Derbyshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Melbourne
- Local authority
- South Derbyshire
- Constituency
- South Derbyshire
- Postcode district
- DE73
- Postcode sector
- DE73 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE73 1BF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 September 2004
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE73
- Postcode sector
- DE73 1
- Latitude
- 52.822593
- Longitude
- -1.424053
- British National Grid easting
- 438,908
- British National Grid northing
- 325,160
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- South Derbyshire · E07000039
- Electoral ward
- Melbourne · E05008815
- Parish or community
- E04002914
- Westminster constituency
- South Derbyshire · E14001483
- Output area
- E00100469
- Lower layer super output area
- South Derbyshire 006C · E01019854
- Middle layer super output area
- South Derbyshire 006 · E02004123
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 DE73
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 1
- 534 m
Melbourne Junior School
Community school
- 589 m
Melbourne Infant School
Community school
- 2.8 km
St Hardulph's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 203
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 85
- Anti social behaviour 35
- Other theft 18
- Public order 18
- Vehicle crime 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
1
within 5 km
MELBOURNE & CHELLASTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
MELBOURNE & CHELLASTON MP, PENN LANE, MELBOURNE, MELBOURNE, DERBY, DE73 8EF
ODS code C81108
382 m
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
Potter Street
BCT · Melbourne
- 0.0 miles
Potter Street
BCT · Melbourne
- 0.1 miles
Church Hall
BCT · Melbourne
- 0.1 miles
Church Hall
BCT · Melbourne
- 0.1 miles
Jubilee Close
BCT · Melbourne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Derbyshire 006C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,386 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
203 published events cover 12 months, averaging 16.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 85 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.