Neighbourhoods in Derbyshire Dales
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9 neighbourhoods · 43 sub-areas
Rent, scores and YoY change at a glance.
| Matlock South, Cromford & Winster | £690 | +6.1% | 64 | 59 |
| Wirksworth | £702 | +6.1% | 87 | 83 |
| Ashbourne South | £707 | +6.1% | 46 | 70 |
| Matlock North | £736 | +6.1% | 68 | 85 |
| Derbyshire Dales 011 | £815 | +6.1% | 34 | 86 |
| Ashbourne North, Dovedale & Carsington | £817 | +6.1% | 9 | 84 |
| Hathersage, Bradwell & Tideswell | £890 | +6.1% | 37 | 88 |
| Bakewell North, Baslow & Calver | £892 | +6.1% | 17 | 88 |
| Doveridge, Brailsford & Bradley | £954 | +6.1% | 23 | 96 |
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 Derbyshire Dales
Three short answers to "where should I focus?" in Derbyshire Dales. 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 Derbyshire Dales median.
Cost of living
Median rent and council tax across Derbyshire Dales.
Rent & price breakdownBy bedroom count · property type · affordability
Rent: ONS PIPR (council area). Council tax: VOA + MHCLG. Sale prices: HM Land Registry.
Safety in Derbyshire Dales
Crime in Derbyshire Dales runs at 2.2× safer than the national average. Top quartile (#52 of 318 cities) The supporting per-1,000-residents-per-year rate is 46.6, 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 Derbyshire Dales
100% of schools serving Derbyshire Dales 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 Derbyshire Dales
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 Derbyshire Dales
Derbyshire Dales has 0.47 jobs per resident locally. Above median
Job access detailReachability tiers · sector mix in this council area
ONS BRES (jobs density) + DfT job-accessibility minutes.
Frequently asked about Derbyshire Dales
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 Derbyshire Dales?
- The median monthly rent across Derbyshire Dales is £797, 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 Derbyshire Dales?
- The cheapest neighbourhood in Derbyshire Dales by estimated median rent is Matlock South, Cromford & Winster at approximately £690/month. The full top-five cheapest list and our methodology are above.
- What's the best neighbourhood to live in Derbyshire Dales?
- By our composite liveability score (which blends safety, transport, schools, rent affordability and EPC), the top-ranked neighbourhood in Derbyshire Dales is Wirksworth at 87/100. The score is editorial; see /methodology/scoring/liveability for the formula.
- Is Derbyshire Dales a safe area?
- Derbyshire Dales has an average safety score of 77/100 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 Derbyshire Dales?
- The most common council tax band in Derbyshire Dales is not yet published, with the Band D annual charge currently around £329. Council tax is set at the local authority level so the same banding applies to every postcode within Derbyshire Dales.
- What is the average salary in Derbyshire Dales?
- The median annual resident salary in Derbyshire Dales is £33,700, per ONS ASHE 2025. This is salary for people who live in Derbyshire Dales, not for people who commute in to work there. Workplace median salary is published separately.
- What is the average house price in Derbyshire Dales?
- The average property price in Derbyshire Dales is approximately £347,989 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 Derbyshire Dales?
- Gross rental yield in Derbyshire Dales is approximately 2.7% — 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 Derbyshire Dales?
- 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 4.8 years in Derbyshire Dales. Faster if you save more, slower if rents are eating into savings.
- Is gigabit broadband available in Derbyshire Dales?
- 85% of premises in Derbyshire Dales 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 Derbyshire Dales?
- 2.0% of 16-64 residents in Derbyshire Dales 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 Derbyshire Dales?
- Derbyshire Dales contains 9 neighbourhood neighbourhoods covering 43 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 Derbyshire Dales
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.
- Derbyshire Dales 002C
- Derbyshire Dales 007D
- Derbyshire Dales 011E
- Derbyshire Dales 009D
- Derbyshire Dales 010B
- Derbyshire Dales 005A
- Derbyshire Dales 010C
- Derbyshire Dales 008A
- Derbyshire Dales 001A
- Derbyshire Dales 002A
- Derbyshire Dales 011G
- Derbyshire Dales 002B
- Derbyshire Dales 001C
- Derbyshire Dales 011C
- Derbyshire Dales 006C
- Derbyshire Dales 005F
- Derbyshire Dales 009A
- Derbyshire Dales 009C
- Derbyshire Dales 008B
- Derbyshire Dales 006A
- Derbyshire Dales 010D
- Derbyshire Dales 006B
- Derbyshire Dales 008C
- Derbyshire Dales 001B
- Derbyshire Dales 009B
- Derbyshire Dales 010A
- Derbyshire Dales 001D
- Derbyshire Dales 011A
- Derbyshire Dales 002D
- Derbyshire Dales 006F
- Derbyshire Dales 006D
- Derbyshire Dales 011F
- Derbyshire Dales 011D
- Derbyshire Dales 008D
- Derbyshire Dales 011B
- Derbyshire Dales 006E
- Derbyshire Dales 005C
- Derbyshire Dales 007B
- Derbyshire Dales 007C
- Derbyshire Dales 007A
- Derbyshire Dales 005B
- Derbyshire Dales 005D
- Derbyshire Dales 005E