Schools
11 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 1 secondary schools. Foxbridge Primary School is the nearest published school at 701 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
DE74 2WT
Castle Donington Park · North West Leicestershire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- North West Leicestershire
- Constituency
- North West Leicestershire
- Postcode district
- DE74
- Postcode sector
- DE74 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- DE74 2WT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 2007
- Terminated
- 1 January 2007
- Postcode area
- DE
- Postcode district
- DE74
- Postcode sector
- DE74 2
- Latitude
- 52.844160
- Longitude
- -1.352620
- British National Grid easting
- 443,700
- British National Grid northing
- 327,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- North West Leicestershire · E07000134
- Electoral ward
- Castle Donington Park · E05010102
- Parish or community
- E04005547
- Westminster constituency
- North West Leicestershire · E14001404
- Output area
- E00187396
- Lower layer super output area
- North West Leicestershire 001C · E01025926
- Middle layer super output area
- North West Leicestershire 001 · E02005397
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 DE74
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 11
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 1
- 701 m
Foxbridge Primary School
Free schools
- 722 m
Orchard Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
St Edward's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 520
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 157
- Anti social behaviour 83
- Other theft 52
- Shoplifting 48
- Criminal damage and arson 43
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- DE74 2 residents
- 12,927
Age bands in DE74 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 20%
1,905 residents
1,945 residents
3,050 residents
3,416 residents
2,580 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
1.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Kirkland Close
BCT · Castle Donington
- 0.2 miles
Hazelrigg Close
BCT · Castle Donington
- 0.2 miles
Kirkland Close
BCT · Castle Donington
- 0.2 miles
Hazelrigg Close
BCT · Castle Donington
- 0.3 miles
Towles Pastures
BCT · Castle Donington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North West Leicestershire 001C, 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
30,453 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
520 published events cover 12 months, averaging 43.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 157 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.