Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Heath Primary School is the nearest published school at 981 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
S42 5UY
Holmewood & Heath · North East Derbyshire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Chesterfield
- Ward
- Holmewood & Heath
- Local authority
- North East Derbyshire
- Constituency
- Bolsover
- Postcode district
- S42
- Postcode sector
- S42 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- S42 5UY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 1988
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- S
- Postcode district
- S42
- Postcode sector
- S42 5
- Latitude
- 53.191747
- Longitude
- -1.358763
- British National Grid easting
- 442,941
- British National Grid northing
- 366,263
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East Midlands · E12000004
- Local authority district
- North East Derbyshire · E07000038
- Electoral ward
- Holmewood & Heath · E05012053
- Parish or community
- E04002870
- Westminster constituency
- Bolsover · E14001109
- Output area
- E00100197
- Lower layer super output area
- North East Derbyshire 009C · E01019799
- Middle layer super output area
- North East Derbyshire 009 · E02004113
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 S42
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Systems House, Park Road, Holmewood, Chesterfield, S42 5UY | 7 April 2021 | £319,000 |
| Holmewood Industrial Park, Coldstores 2a And 2b, Park Road, Chesterfield, S42 5UY | 29 January 2021 | £5,650,320 |
| Holmewood Industrial Park, Coldstores 2a And 2b, Park Road, Chesterfield, S42 5UY | 29 January 2021 | £5,650,320 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 981 m
Heath Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.7 km
Temple Normanton Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 2.1 km
North Wingfield Primary and Nursery Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 598
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 281
- Anti social behaviour 62
- Criminal damage and arson 60
- Public order 57
- Other theft 48
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- S42 5 residents
- 13,060
Age bands in S42 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.6%
2,127 residents
1,234 residents
3,309 residents
3,567 residents
2,660 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.
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+
- 75.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 75.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 75.9%
- 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
NORTH WINGFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
MEDICAL CENTRE, CHESTERFIELD ROAD, NORTH WINGFIELD, CHESTERFIELD, S42 5ND
ODS code C81055
2.1 km
ST LAWRENCE ROAD SURGERY
17-19 ST. LAWRENCE ROAD, NORTH WINGFIELD, CHESTERFIELD, S42 5LH
ODS code C81647
2.3 km
CLAY CROSS MEDICAL CENTRE
BRIDGE STREET, CLAY CROSS, CHESTERFIELD, S45 9NG
ODS code C81056
4.4 km
ROYAL PRIMARY CARE CLAY CROSS
ELDON STREET, CLAY CROSS, CHESTERFIELD, S45 9NR
ODS code C81008
4.6 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Pavillion Workshops
BCT · Holmewood
- 0.0 miles
Pavillion Workshops
BCT · Holmewood
- 0.1 miles
Rick Bestwick
BCT · Holmewood
- 0.2 miles
Tupton Way
BCT · Holmewood
- 0.2 miles
Tupton Way
BCT · Holmewood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for North East Derbyshire 009C, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,862 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 5
- 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
598 published events cover 12 months, averaging 49.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 281 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.