Schools
46 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 6 secondary schools. Include-West Bars is the nearest published school at 304 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S40 1BA
Spire · Chesterfield · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chesterfield
- Ward
- Spire
- Local authority
- Chesterfield
- Constituency
- Chesterfield
- Postcode district
- S40
- Postcode sector
- S40 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S40 1BA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S40
- Postcode sector
- S40 1
- Latitude
- 53.235863
- Longitude
- -1.436762
- British National Grid easting
- 437,691
- British National Grid northing
- 371,127
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- Chesterfield · E07000034
- Electoral ward
- Spire · E05015179
- Parish or community
- E43000048
- Westminster constituency
- Chesterfield · E14001165
- Output area
- E00098825
- Lower layer super output area
- Chesterfield 010A · E01019538
- Middle layer super output area
- Chesterfield 010 · E02004064
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 S40
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Knightsbridge Court, West Bars, Chesterfield, S40 1BA | 6 September 2019 | £675,000 |
| 75, West Bars, Chesterfield, S40 1BA | 19 October 2005 | £150,000 |
| 57, West Bars, Chesterfield, S40 1BA | 20 April 2000 | £32,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 46
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 6
- 304 m
Include-West Bars
Other independent special school
- 482 m
Brampton Primary School
Community school
- 498 m
St Mary's Catholic Primary
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,895
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,928
- Shoplifting 639
- Anti social behaviour 530
- Public order 521
- Criminal damage and arson 340
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 19
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- S40 1 residents
- 3,871
6 female, 13 male
Age bands in S40 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28%
- Age 65 and over
- 19%
639 residents
444 residents
1,173 residents
1,189 residents
808 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider S40 1 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
10
within 5 km
THE SURGERY AT WHEATBRIDGE
THE SURGERY-WHEATBRIDGE, 30 WHEATBRIDGE ROAD, CHESTERFIELD, S40 2AB
ODS code C81012
285 m
ROYAL PRIMARY CARE CHESTERFIELD WEST
CHESTERFIELD MED PTNRSHIP, ASHGATE MANOR, ASHGATE ROAD, CHESTERFIELD, S40 4AA
ODS code C81045
312 m
INSPIRE HEALTH - AVENUE HOUSE SURGERY
109 SALTERGATE, CHESTERFIELD, S40 1LE
ODS code C81084
323 m
ROYAL PRIMARY CARE CHESTERFIELD
THE GRANGE FAMILY H/CTR, STUBBING ROAD, GRANGEWOOD, CHESTERFIELD, S40 2HP
ODS code Y04995
1.8 km
CHATSWORTH ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
STORRS ROAD, CHESTERFIELD, S40 3PY
ODS code C81067
2.1 km
NEWBOLD SURGERY
3 WINDERMERE ROAD, NEWBOLD MOOR, CHESTERFIELD, S41 8DU
ODS code C81015
2.4 km
WHITTINGTON MOOR SURGERY
SCARSDALE ROAD, WHITTINGTON MOOR, CHESTERFIELD, S41 8NA
ODS code C81044
2.8 km
THE BRIMINGTON SURGERY
CHURCH STREET, BRIMINGTON, CHESTERFIELD, S43 1JG
ODS code C81058
3.6 km
CALOW AND BRIMINGTON PRACTICE
BRIMINGTON&CALOW MED PRAC, FOLJAMBE ROAD, BRIMINGTON, CHESTERFIELD, S43 1DD
ODS code C81649
3.7 km
WINGERWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
ALLENDALE ROAD, WINGERWORTH, CHESTERFIELD, S42 6PX
ODS code C81658
3.9 km
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
- 0.1 miles
West Bars Roundabout
BCT · Chesterfield
- 0.1 miles
Mecca Bingo
BCT · Chesterfield
- 0.1 miles
Boythorpe Road Bottom
BCT · Chesterfield
- 0.1 miles
Boythorpe Road Bottom
BCT · Chesterfield
- 0.1 miles
Wheatbridge Road
BCT · Chesterfield
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Chesterfield 010A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,755 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 11
- Medium risk addresses
- 4
- Low risk addresses
- 4
- 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
4,895 published events cover 12 months, averaging 407.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,928 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.