Ilkeston
Ilkeston is covered by postcode districts DE7, DE75, NG9 and NG16. It is mostly in the Erewash council area: 887 of its 895 postcodes. The others are in Broxtowe and Amber Valley. 889 are in Derbyshire and 6 in Nottinghamshire.
Every postcode in Ilkeston, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 20
- In use before 2020: 875
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 895 postcodes in Ilkeston that ONS places, 20 are new since 2020 and 875 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 52.9728, longitude -1.3101. 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
Where the new postcodes lie together
- 8 new postcodes since 2020, outlined on the map. DE7 0HD, is the newest of them.
What is it like to live in Ilkeston?
Homes sold for a typical £180,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 0.3% on the 12 months before. At 773 of the 841 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 197 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 30 of its 895 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Ilkeston, 1.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources
What do homes cost in Ilkeston?
Homes in Ilkeston sold for a typical £180,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 414 sales, up 0.3% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £280,000 87 sales
- Semi-detached £190,000 167 sales
- Terraced £150,000 146 sales
- Flat or maisonette £97,500 14 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole DE7 district, Ilkeston's main postcode district: a typical £200,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Ilkeston: 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
Are new homes being built in Ilkeston?
20 of the 895 postcodes now in use in Ilkeston came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 555 homes sold in Ilkeston were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DE7 district, 0%.
The newest postcodes
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
| Period | In Ilkeston | Across the DE7 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to August 2026 | 0 of 414 (0%) | 0 of 566 (0%) |
| The 12 months to August 2025 | 0 of 555 (0%) | 0 of 729 (0%) |
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.
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
What broadband can you get in Ilkeston?
Ofcom reports on 841 of the 895 postcodes in Ilkeston. At 773 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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 checkerSource: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Ilkeston at risk of flooding?
30 of the 895 postcodes in Ilkeston 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 197 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
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
Which schools are in Ilkeston?
The open schools at the postcodes in Ilkeston (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.
Primary
- Chaucer Infant School400 m 188 pupils, 180 places
- Chaucer Junior School400 m 233 pupils, 240 places
- Granby Junior School900 m 286 pupils, 332 places
- St Thomas Catholic Voluntary Academy900 m 225 pupils, 230 places
- Larklands Infant School950 m 145 pupils, 179 places
- Charlotte Nursery and Infant School1.1 km 288 pupils, 320 places
- Kensington Junior Academy1.1 km 178 pupils, 236 places
- Field House Infant School1.2 km 201 pupils, 180 places
Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it
How far is the station from Ilkeston?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Ilkeston is Ilkeston Rail Station, 1.3 km away in a straight line.
- Ilkeston Rail Station Railway station 1.3 kmCycle
- Langley Mill Rail Station Railway station 5.2 kmDrive
- Bulwell Rail Station Railway station 8.2 kmDrive
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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Which GP surgeries are in Ilkeston?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Ilkeston, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Gladstone House Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report December 2025 · Phone 0115 932 0248 450 mWalk
- South Street Surgery Phone 0115 932 2933 500 mWalk
- Old Station Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Requires improvement CQC report December 2023 · Phone 0115 930 1055 700 mWalk
- Littlewick Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report May 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0115 932 5229 800 mWalk
- Eden Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2025 · Phone 0115 944 4081 1.3 kmCycle
Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Is Ilkeston safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 3,172 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Ilkeston 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
- 234 September 2025
- 278 October 2025
- 279 November 2025
- 246 December 2025
- 262 January 2026
- 230 February 2026
- 259 March 2026
- 272 April 2026
- 294 May 2026
- 235 June 2026
- 293 July 2026
- 290 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: burglary 83, other crime 48, possession of weapons 38, robbery 32, theft from the person 20, bicycle theft 8.
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 postcodeSource: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it
Who runs Ilkeston?
- Councils
- Erewash (887), Broxtowe (6) and Amber Valley (2)
- County councils
- Derbyshire (889) and Nottinghamshire (6)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Erewash (887), Broxtowe (6) and Amber Valley (2)
- Police force areas
- Derbyshire (889) and Nottinghamshire (6)
- Region
- East Midlands
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources
Moving to Ilkeston
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Ilkeston is in Erewash; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Erewash about council tax Council tax, on erewash.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Ilkeston
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Ilkeston postcodes
895 postcodes in use in Ilkeston, by district:
Those districts are in the DE postcode area and NG postcode area.
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Places near Ilkeston
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Ilkeston's £180,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Questions about Ilkeston
- What is it like to live in Ilkeston?
- Homes sold for a typical £180,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 0.3% on the 12 months before. At 773 of the 841 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 197 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 30 of its 895 postcodes. It has at least 8 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Ilkeston, 1.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
- What is the postcode for Ilkeston?
- Ilkeston is covered by postcode districts DE7, DE75, NG9 and NG16, across 895 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
- How much are houses in Ilkeston?
- Homes in Ilkeston sold for a typical £180,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 414 sales, up 0.3% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
- What schools are in Ilkeston?
- In Ilkeston, primary schools at its postcodes include Chaucer Infant School, Chaucer Junior School and Granby Junior School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Ormiston Ilkeston Enterprise Academy, Kirk Hallam Community Academy and Saint John Houghton Catholic Voluntary Academy. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
- Does Ilkeston have a railway station?
- Yes: Ilkeston is 1.3 km from the centre point of the postcodes in Ilkeston, in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
- What broadband can you get in Ilkeston?
- Ofcom reports on 841 of the 895 postcodes in Ilkeston. At 773 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
- Is Ilkeston at risk of flooding?
- 30 of the 895 postcodes in Ilkeston 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 197 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Ilkeston?
- 20 of the 895 postcodes now in use in Ilkeston came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 555 homes sold in Ilkeston were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DE7 district, 0%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.
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