DE7 postcode district: Ilkeston and around

DE7 is a postcode district mostly in Derbyshire, with 1,147 postcodes in use in 6 sectors. It has postcodes in Ilkeston, West Hallam, Kilburn and Horsley Woodhouse and 1 more place. It is split between 3 councils: Erewash (1,053 postcodes), Amber Valley (90) and Broxtowe (4). 1,143 are in Derbyshire and 4 in Nottinghamshire.

Postcodes in use: 1,147
Sectors: 6
Councils: 3 councils
Places: 4 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in DE7, and which are new since 2020

New since 2020: 32
In use before 2020: 1,115
Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together

Of the 1,147 postcodes in DE7 that ONS places, 32 are new since 2020 and 1,115 were in use before 2020.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 52.9735, longitude -1.3235. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; when each came into use: the same directory; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

The 5 newest postcodes

DE7 0HDFebruary 2026 DE7 4STJanuary 2026 DE7 0HANovember 2025 DE7 0GYSeptember 2025 DE7 4RZMay 2025

Where the new postcodes lie together

8 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. DE7 0HD, is the newest of them.

What broadband can you get in DE7?

Ofcom reports on 1,096 of the 1,147 postcodes in DE7. At 959 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit959 of 1,096

Postcodes where every home can get superfast1,024 of 1,096

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 1,096

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is DE7 at risk of flooding?

36 of the 1,147 postcodes in DE7 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 201 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 36 of 1,147 postcodes High: 172Medium: 29Low: 155Very low: 1

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in DE7?

Homes in DE7 sold for a typical £200,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 566 sales, up 3.6% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£200,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£193,000 12 months to August 2025

▲ up 3.6% on the 12 months before

Detached £317,500 169 sales
Semi-detached £197,500 217 sales
Terraced £160,000 166 sales
Flat or maisonette £97,500 14 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it