Darley Dale

Darley Dale is covered by postcode district DE4. It is in the Derbyshire Dales council area, Derbyshire.

Typical price £241,250 Homes sold in Darley Dale, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 40 of 92 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 8 of 93 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 61 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 2 2 primary schools at its postcodes

Every postcode in Darley Dale, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Darley Dale, by flood risk Of the 93 postcodes in Darley Dale that ONS places, 6 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst and 85 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Darley Dale. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. A6 DE4 2AN: not on the flood risk listDE4 2DE: not on the flood risk listDE4 2EN: not on the flood risk listDE4 2ET: not on the flood risk listDE4 2EU: not on the flood risk listDE4 2EW: not on the flood risk listDE4 2EY: not on the flood risk listDE4 2FB: not on the flood risk listDE4 2FD: not on the flood risk listDE4 2FE: not on the flood risk listDE4 2FJ: not on the flood risk listDE4 2FL: not on the flood risk listDE4 2FN: not on the flood risk listDE4 2FP: not on the flood risk listDE4 2FS: not on the flood risk listDE4 2FT: not on the flood risk listDE4 2FU: not on the flood risk listDE4 2FW: not on the flood risk listDE4 2FX: not on the flood risk listDE4 2FY: not on the flood risk listDE4 2FZ: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GA: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GB: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GD: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GE: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GF: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GG: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GH: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GJ: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GN: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GP: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GQ: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GR: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GS: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GT: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GU: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GW: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GX: not on the flood risk listDE4 2GY: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HD: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HE: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HF: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HG: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HH: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HJ: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HL: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HN: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HP: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HQ: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HR: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HS: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HT: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HU: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HW: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HX: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HY: not on the flood risk listDE4 2HZ: not on the flood risk listDE4 2JA: not on the flood risk listDE4 2JB: not on the flood risk listDE4 2LB: not on the flood risk listDE4 2LD: not on the flood risk listDE4 2PT: not on the flood risk listDE4 2QB: not on the flood risk listDE4 2QQ: not on the flood risk listDE4 2QR: not on the flood risk listDE4 2QS: not on the flood risk listDE4 2QT: not on the flood risk listDE4 2QW: not on the flood risk listDE4 2QX: not on the flood risk listDE4 2QY: not on the flood risk listDE4 2QZ: not on the flood risk listDE4 2RA: not on the flood risk listDE4 2SA: not on the flood risk listDE4 2SB: not on the flood risk listDE4 2SD: not on the flood risk listDE4 2SE: not on the flood risk listDE4 2TP: not on the flood risk listDE4 2TQ: not on the flood risk listDE4 2TR: not on the flood risk listDE4 2TS: not on the flood risk listDE4 2TT: not on the flood risk listDE4 2TU: not on the flood risk listDE4 2TX: not on the flood risk listDE4 2TY: not on the flood risk listDE4 2TZ: not on the flood risk listDE4 2EQ: medium flood risk at worstDE4 2FG: medium flood risk at worstDE4 2ER: high flood riskDE4 2EX: high flood riskDE4 2EZ: high flood riskDE4 2FF: high flood riskDE4 2GL: high flood riskDE4 2LF: high flood risk Darley Dale Map of every postcode in Darley Dale, by flood risk Of the 93 postcodes in Darley Dale that ONS places, 6 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst and 85 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Darley Dale. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Darley Dale
  • A home or business at high risk: 6
  • At medium risk at worst: 2
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 85

Of the 93 postcodes in Darley Dale that ONS places, 6 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst and 85 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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. No boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.1664, longitude -1.5936. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.

The postcodes at high risk

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

DE4 2EZ15 at high riskDE4 2GL6 at high riskDE4 2ER4 at high riskDE4 2FF3 at high riskDE4 2LF1 at high riskDE4 2EX1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Darley Dale?

Homes sold for a typical £241,250 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 40 of the 92 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 61 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 8 of its 93 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Matlock, 3.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Darley Dale?

Homes in Darley Dale sold for a typical £241,250 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 58 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £270,000 from 73 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£241,250 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£270,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £396,750 20 sales
  • Semi-detached £230,000 17 sales
  • Terraced £210,000 17 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 4 sales, too few to price

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

Across the whole DE4 district, Darley Dale's main postcode district: a typical £289,995.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Darley Dale: 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 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in Darley Dale?

6 of the 93 postcodes now in use in Darley Dale came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 21 of the 73 homes sold in Darley Dale were newly built (29%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DE4 district, 12%.

The newest postcodes

DE4 2SEsince August 2025DE4 2QSsince November 2023DE4 2QTsince February 2023DE4 2QRsince January 2023DE4 2FUsince December 2022DE4 2QQsince October 2021

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Darley DaleAcross the DE4 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 58 (0%) 6 of 451 (1%)
The 12 months to September 2025 21 of 73 (29%) 76 of 616 (12%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Darley Dale?

Ofcom reports on 92 of the 93 postcodes in Darley Dale. At 40 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 gigabit40 of 92
Postcodes where every home can get superfast77 of 92
Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 92

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.

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Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Darley Dale at risk of flooding?

8 of the 93 postcodes in Darley Dale 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 61 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 8 of 93 postcodes High: 30Medium: 31Low: 28

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Darley Dale?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Darley Dale. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Primary

Secondary

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Darley Dale?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Darley Dale is Matlock Rail Station, 3.9 km away in a straight line.

  • Matlock Rail Station Railway station 3.9 kmCycle
  • Matlock Bath Rail Station Railway station 5.5 kmDrive
  • Cromford Rail Station Railway station 6.6 kmDrive
  • Darley Dale (Peak Rail) Underground, metro or tram 650 mWalk
  • Rowsley South (Peak Rail) Underground, metro or tram 1.4 kmCycle

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Darley Dale?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Darley Dale. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

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Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Darley Dale safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 199 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Darley Dale over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 26 September 2025
  2. 21 October 2025
  3. 13 November 2025
  4. 15 December 2025
  5. 21 January 2026
  6. 6 February 2026
  7. 12 March 2026
  8. 14 April 2026
  9. 9 May 2026
  10. 15 June 2026
  11. 28 July 2026
  12. 19 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences95 reports
Anti-social behaviour27 reports
Criminal damage and arson16 reports
Other theft16 reports
Public order14 reports
Drugs13 reports
Possession of weapons5 reports
Vehicle crime4 reports

Also: shoplifting 4, other crime 3, burglary 2.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Darley Dale?

District, borough or city council
Derbyshire Dales
County council
Derbyshire
Parliamentary constituency
Derbyshire Dales
Police force area
Derbyshire
Region
East Midlands
Country
England
MP
John Whitby (Labour)

All 93 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

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Darley Dale postcodes

93 postcodes in use in Darley Dale, by district:

DE4 postcode district,93 postcodes

That district is in the DE postcode area.

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Places near Darley Dale

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Darley Dale's £241,250. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Matlock3.8 km, £275,000Bakewell7.6 km, £362,500Wirksworth9.6 km, £250,000Wingerworth11.6 km, £295,000Crich11.9 km, £335,000Clay Cross12.2 km, £187,975Old Tupton12.2 km, £227,500Chesterfield13.3 km, £205,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Darley Dale

What is the postcode for Darley Dale?
Postcode district DE4, with 93 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Darley Dale in?
Derbyshire Dales, with Derbyshire as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Darley Dale?
John Whitby (Labour), for Derbyshire Dales. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Darley Dale?
A typical £241,250 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 58 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Darley Dale?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Darley Churchtown Church of England Primary School and Darley Dale Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Highfields School, 4.4 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Darley Dale have a railway station?
The nearest is Matlock station, 3.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Darley Dale?
Ofcom reports on 92 of the 93 postcodes in Darley Dale. At 40 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
Is Darley Dale at risk of flooding?
8 of the 93 postcodes in Darley Dale 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 61 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Darley Dale?
6 of the 93 postcodes now in use in Darley Dale came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 21 of the 73 homes sold in Darley Dale were newly built (29%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DE4 district, 12%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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