Wirksworth

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

Typical price £250,000 Homes sold in Wirksworth, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 73 of 112 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 4 of 114 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 18 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 3 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Wirksworth, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Wirksworth, by flood risk Of the 114 postcodes in Wirksworth that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 110 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Wirksworth. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. DE4 4AB: not on the flood risk listDE4 4AD: not on the flood risk listDE4 4AE: not on the flood risk listDE4 4AL: not on the flood risk listDE4 4AN: not on the flood risk listDE4 4AP: not on the flood risk listDE4 4AQ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4AR: not on the flood risk listDE4 4AS: not on the flood risk listDE4 4AT: not on the flood risk listDE4 4AU: not on the flood risk listDE4 4AW: not on the flood risk listDE4 4AX: not on the flood risk listDE4 4AY: not on the flood risk listDE4 4AZ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4BA: not on the flood risk listDE4 4BB: not on the flood risk listDE4 4BD: not on the flood risk listDE4 4BE: not on the flood risk listDE4 4BH: not on the flood risk listDE4 4BJ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4BP: not on the flood risk listDE4 4BQ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4BS: not on the flood risk listDE4 4BT: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DG: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DH: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DJ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DL: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DN: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DP: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DQ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DR: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DS: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DT: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DU: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DW: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DX: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DY: not on the flood risk listDE4 4DZ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EA: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EB: not on the flood risk listDE4 4ED: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EE: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EF: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EG: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EH: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EJ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EL: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EN: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EQ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4ER: not on the flood risk listDE4 4ET: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EU: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EW: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EX: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EY: not on the flood risk listDE4 4EZ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FD: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FE: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FF: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FG: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FH: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FJ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FL: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FN: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FP: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FQ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FR: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FS: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FT: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FW: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FX: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FY: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FZ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4GA: not on the flood risk listDE4 4GD: not on the flood risk listDE4 4GE: not on the flood risk listDE4 4GG: not on the flood risk listDE4 4GJ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4GL: not on the flood risk listDE4 4GN: not on the flood risk listDE4 4GP: not on the flood risk listDE4 4GQ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4GR: not on the flood risk listDE4 4GT: not on the flood risk listDE4 4GX: not on the flood risk listDE4 4GY: not on the flood risk listDE4 4GZ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4JA: not on the flood risk listDE4 4JD: not on the flood risk listDE4 4JE: not on the flood risk listDE4 4JF: not on the flood risk listDE4 4JG: not on the flood risk listDE4 4NN: not on the flood risk listDE4 4NQ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4NR: not on the flood risk listDE4 4NS: not on the flood risk listDE4 4PA: not on the flood risk listDE4 4PB: not on the flood risk listDE4 4PE: not on the flood risk listDE4 4PF: not on the flood risk listDE4 4PG: not on the flood risk listDE4 4PN: not on the flood risk listDE4 4PP: not on the flood risk listDE4 4PQ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4PR: not on the flood risk listDE4 4PZ: not on the flood risk listDE4 4QH: not on the flood risk listDE4 4QL: not on the flood risk listDE4 4FB: low flood risk at worstDE4 4AA: medium flood risk at worstDE4 4BG: high flood riskDE4 4BL: high flood risk Wirksworth Map of every postcode in Wirksworth, by flood risk Of the 114 postcodes in Wirksworth that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 110 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. Places named: Wirksworth. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Wirksworth
  • A home or business at high risk: 2
  • At medium risk at worst: 1
  • At low risk at worst: 1
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 110

Of the 114 postcodes in Wirksworth that ONS places, 2 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst, 1 are at low risk at worst and 110 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 53.0814, longitude -1.5736. 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 4BG7 at high riskDE4 4BL1 at high risk

What is it like to live in Wirksworth?

Homes sold for a typical £250,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 73 of the 112 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 18 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 4 of its 114 postcodes. It has 2 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Cromford, 3.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

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 Wirksworth?

Homes in Wirksworth sold for a typical £250,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 77 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £260,000 from 83 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£250,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£260,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £427,500 26 sales
  • Semi-detached £238,000 27 sales
  • Terraced £216,750 22 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price

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

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

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Wirksworth: 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 Wirksworth?

3 of the 114 postcodes now in use in Wirksworth came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 83 homes sold in Wirksworth were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the DE4 district, 12%.

The newest postcodes

DE4 4QLsince April 2026DE4 4QHsince June 2025DE4 4PZsince February 2022

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 WirksworthAcross the DE4 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 77 (0%) 6 of 451 (1%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 83 (0%) 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 Wirksworth?

Ofcom reports on 112 of the 114 postcodes in Wirksworth. At 73 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit73 of 112
Postcodes where every home can get superfast100 of 112

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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Wirksworth at risk of flooding?

4 of the 114 postcodes in Wirksworth 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 18 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 4 of 114 postcodes High: 8Medium: 10Low: 17

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 Wirksworth?

The open schools at the postcodes in Wirksworth. 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Primary

Secondary

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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 Wirksworth?

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

  • Cromford Rail Station Railway station 3.9 kmCycle
  • Whatstandwell Rail Station Railway station 4.6 kmCycle
  • Matlock Bath Rail Station Railway station 4.7 kmCycle
  • Wirksworth (Ecclesbourne Valley Railway) Underground, metro or tram 350 mWalk

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 Wirksworth?

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

Find a GP on the NHS website

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

Is Wirksworth safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 249 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Wirksworth 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. 22 September 2025
  2. 21 October 2025
  3. 23 November 2025
  4. 14 December 2025
  5. 11 January 2026
  6. 15 February 2026
  7. 30 March 2026
  8. 15 April 2026
  9. 27 May 2026
  10. 20 June 2026
  11. 23 July 2026
  12. 28 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences110 reports
Anti-social behaviour32 reports
Public order26 reports
Criminal damage and arson26 reports
Other theft12 reports
Burglary9 reports
Drugs9 reports
Shoplifting8 reports

Also: other crime 8, vehicle crime 4, possession of weapons 4, robbery 1.

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 Wirksworth?

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 114 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.

Moving to Wirksworth

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Wirksworth postcodes

114 postcodes in use in Wirksworth, by district:

DE4 postcode district,114 postcodes

That district is in the DE postcode area.

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Places near Wirksworth

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Wirksworth's £250,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Crich6.3 km, £335,000Matlock6.8 km, £275,000Belper9.2 km, £243,000Darley Dale9.6 km, £241,250Duffield11.9 km, £450,000Ripley12.2 km, £205,000Shirland and Stonebroom12.6 km, £218,000Ashbourne12.8 km, £270,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Wirksworth

What is the postcode for Wirksworth?
Postcode district DE4, with 114 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Wirksworth in?
Derbyshire Dales, with Derbyshire as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Wirksworth?
John Whitby (Labour), for Derbyshire Dales. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Wirksworth?
A typical £250,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 77 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Wirksworth?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Wirksworth CofE Infant School and Wirksworth Junior School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Anthony Gell School. Source: Department for Education.
Does Wirksworth have a railway station?
The nearest is Cromford station, 3.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Wirksworth?
Ofcom reports on 112 of the 114 postcodes in Wirksworth. At 73 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Wirksworth at risk of flooding?
4 of the 114 postcodes in Wirksworth 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 18 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 Wirksworth?
3 of the 114 postcodes now in use in Wirksworth came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 83 homes sold in Wirksworth were newly built (0%), 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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