Neighbourhoods in Derby
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31 neighbourhoods · 152 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| New Normanton | £673 | +2.5% | 85 | 8 |
| Cathedral Quarter & California | £674 | +2.5% | 85 | 4 |
| New Zealand | £705 | +2.5% | 84 | 26 |
| Little Chester | £711 | +2.5% | 80 | 11 |
| Alvaston & Crewton | £726 | +2.5% | 66 | 23 |
| Rose Hill & Castleward | £729 | +2.5% | 85 | 12 |
| Normanton South | £765 | +2.5% | 85 | 26 |
| Chaddesden West | £771 | +2.5% | 79 | 27 |
| Wilmorton & Alvaston Village | £778 | +2.5% | 77 | 20 |
| Sinfin | £780 | +2.5% | 71 | 20 |
| Breadsall Hilltop | £789 | +2.5% | 67 | 35 |
| Allenton & Osmaston | £799 | +2.5% | 75 | 18 |
| Normanton North & Peartree | £801 | +2.5% | 97 | 64 |
| Chaddesden Park | £810 | +2.5% | 59 | 29 |
| Boulton | £815 | +2.5% | 40 | 41 |
| Chaddesden North | £830 | +2.5% | 61 | 68 |
| Mackworth | £846 | +2.5% | 62 | 33 |
| Spondon South | £852 | +2.5% | 64 | 51 |
| Sunny Hill | £884 | +2.5% | 76 | 60 |
| Littleover East | £890 | +2.5% | 59 | 28 |
| Spondon North | £906 | +2.5% | 80 | 81 |
| Mickleover South | £937 | +2.5% | 81 | 86 |
| Normanton West | £943 | +2.5% | 61 | 55 |
| Chellaston West & Shelton Lock | £946 | +2.5% | 40 | 70 |
| Chellaston East | £960 | +2.5% | 40 | 69 |
| Mickleover North | £1,000 | +2.5% | 79 | 89 |
| Darley Abbey | £1,006 | +2.5% | 49 | 65 |
| Oakwood | £1,019 | +2.5% | 71 | 84 |
| Littleover West & Heatherton | £1,069 | +2.5% | 78 | 81 |
| Allestree South | £1,094 | +2.5% | 64 | 79 |
| Allestree North | £1,098 | +2.5% | 65 | 95 |
Sources: ONS, MHCLG, DfT, DESNZ, Defra, Police.uk, Ofsted, Ofcom, HM Land Registry. Some columns (salary, council tax, HPI) are published at council-area level.
Where to look in Derby
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Derby. Each list is filtered from the same neighbourhood data above — the basis of each shortlist is stated above the list so you know what's been weighted.
Lowest estimated monthly rent. Rent is the LAD-published ONS PIPR median, scaled per neighbourhood by local sale prices (Land Registry).
Highest composite liveability — combines safety, schools, transport access and rental affordability into one 0–100 score (higher = more liveable).
Highest liveability per pound of rent — desirable areas where rent stays close to or below the Derby median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Derby.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Derby
Crime in Derby runs at in line with the national average. Bottom quartile (#258 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 86.5, averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods.
How crime is measured
What's counted. Incidents recorded by territorial police forces and published to data.police.uk each month. Rates use the latest 12 months of data divided by the area's mid-2024 ONS resident population — so the figure is reported incidents per 1,000 residents per year.
Anti-social behaviour is the largest category in most areas and is worth reading carefully — it's a community-reports bucket (noise, rowdiness, nuisance), not "crime" in the legal sense. ASB and shoplifting are weighted lower than violent offences in the safety score on each page.
Caveats. The denominator is residents, so workday and tourist destinations can look worse than they feel for someone living there. Greater Manchester forces stopped publishing to data.police.uk in 2020, so figures for those areas are intentionally blank rather than misleadingly low.
Crime detailTop crime types · safest neighbourhoods in this council area
Source: data.police.uk — incident counts adjusted for population, then averaged across the council area's neighbourhoods. National average = England + Wales population-weighted mean.
Schools in Derby
100% of schools serving Derby are rated Good or Outstanding by Ofsted. Best 5% nationally (#1 of 296 cities)
School breakdownOfsted distribution · best neighbourhoods for schools
Ofsted school inspection ratings, latest inspection per school.
Transport in Derby
Modelled door-to-door commute from this council area to nearby employment hubs. Closest first.
Transport detailAll city commute times · mode share · best-connected neighbourhoods
DfT Journey Time Statistics + ONS Travel-to-Work.
Job access from Derby
Derby has 0.53 jobs per resident locally. Top quartile
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Derby
Short answers to the questions we get most often. Each answer is anchored in the data above and links onward where you can dig deeper.
- What is the average rent in Derby?
- The median monthly rent across Derby is £847, based on ONS Private Rental Prices data. Individual neighbourhoods vary — see the shortlist above for the cheapest and most desirable areas.
- Where is the cheapest place to rent in Derby?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Derby by estimated median rent is New Normanton at approximately £673/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Derby?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Derby is Normanton North & Peartree at 97/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Derby a safe area?
- Derby has an average safety score of 47/100 across its constituent neighbourhoods (higher is safer). The score is the national percentile rank of police-recorded crimes per 1,000 residents per year, inverted so 100 means the safest 1% of England + Wales.
- What is council tax in Derby?
- The most common council tax band in Derby is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £1,899. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Derby.
- What is the average salary in Derby?
- The median annual resident salary in Derby is £30,467, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Derby, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Derby?
- The average property price in Derby is approximately £202,058 according to HM Land Registry's House Price Index. Individual neighbourhoods vary — typically ±20% around this council area median.
- What's the rental yield in Derby?
- Gross rental yield in Derby is approximately 4.5% — the council-area level median rent annualised over the council-area level median sale price. Net yield (after agency, void, maintenance and tax) typically runs 30–40% lower.
- How long does it take to save a deposit in Derby?
- Saving a 10% deposit at the council area median sale price on the council area median salary, while putting away 10% of takehome pay each month, takes approximately 3.3 years in Derby. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Derby?
- 100% of premises in Derby are gigabit-capable per Ofcom Connected Nations 2025. Coverage is patchier in older terraces and rural fringes — check your specific postcode for service availability.
- What's the unemployment rate in Derby?
- 5.1% of 16-64 residents in Derby are on the DWP Claimant Count — Universal Credit while seeking work, or Jobseeker's Allowance. That's the live monthly local indicator. It's narrower than the ONS Labour Force Survey "ILO unemployment rate" (which counts anyone actively job-seeking on a separate denominator) and narrower again than Census 2021's "% unemployed" (which is calculated against all 16+ residents and so isn't directly comparable).
- How many neighbourhoods are in Derby?
- Derby contains 31 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 152 sub-areas (local areas). Browse the full list at the bottom of this page or use the neighbourhood map above to drill into a specific area.
What you need on day one
All sub-areas in Derby
Every local area, ordered by crawl priority. Most readers want the neighbourhood-level view — these are for deep-link cases or external search-engine arrivals.
- Derby 018E
- Derby 018C
- Derby 026F
- Derby 008C
- Derby 016B
- Derby 013E
- Derby 016E
- Derby 013D
- Derby 020C
- Derby 025A
- Derby 013A
- Derby 011C
- Derby 016A
- Derby 016C
- Derby 023B
- Derby 020B
- Derby 013C
- Derby 023A
- Derby 008A
- Derby 018A
- Derby 016D
- Derby 005D
- Derby 008B
- Derby 020A
- Derby 011A
- Derby 018D
- Derby 026B
- Derby 026C
- Derby 017A
- Derby 023C
- Derby 020D
- Derby 013H
- Derby 011D
- Derby 013B
- Derby 027D
- Derby 004A
- Derby 025B
- Derby 027B
- Derby 025D
- Derby 025F
- Derby 024F
- Derby 018G
- Derby 013G
- Derby 024B
- Derby 021B
- Derby 015C
- Derby 024E
- Derby 029F
- Derby 017B
- Derby 007D
- Derby 029D
- Derby 003G
- Derby 026D
- Derby 008D
- Derby 007A
- Derby 018F
- Derby 006D
- Derby 009A
- Derby 026A
- Derby 028D
- Derby 023D
- Derby 006C
- Derby 003B
- Derby 029C
- Derby 030F
- Derby 005C
- Derby 021A
- Derby 030G
- Derby 021E
- Derby 014D
- Derby 015D
- Derby 026E
- Derby 027A
- Derby 004B
- Derby 017D
- Derby 017C
- Derby 024C
- Derby 025E
- Derby 012F
- Derby 030D
Showing 80 of 152 sub-areas. Drill into any neighbourhood above for the full sub-area list.