Derbyshire Dales: local statistics
Derbyshire Dales is a district council area in the East Midlands, home to an estimated 72,028 people (mid-2025). This page brings together 10 official figures for the area, each with its period, publisher and the address it was read from. See also who has power over Derbyshire Dales, from the council up to the G20.
Key figures
What the figures show
HM Land Registry puts the average price of a home in Derbyshire Dales at £355,387 for July 2026, up 7.1% on July 2025. That is the highest in the East Midlands; the average for the East Midlands was £242,274. This July figure is the highest in the series, 50% up on July 2016. The average price is 8.3 times the median annual pay of full-time employees who live in Derbyshire Dales. That ratio is the 2nd highest ratio in the East Midlands.
In August 2026, 745 people in Derbyshire Dales were on the claimant count, 1.8% of residents aged 16 to 64; the rate for the East Midlands was 3.5%. The rate was the same a year earlier. Over the last five years it peaked at 2.3% in August 2021 and was lowest at 1.5% in June 2022.
72,028 people lived in Derbyshire Dales in mid-2025, according to the ONS, up 0.4% on mid-2024. Over ten years, since mid-2015, it has grown by 1.6%, against +8.6% for the East Midlands as a whole. That is the 3rd slowest growth of the 35 council areas in the East Midlands. No earlier year in the series was higher.
Median weekly pay for full-time employees who live in Derbyshire Dales was £804.00 in April 2025, or £43,071 over a year. It is the 4th highest of 35 in the East Midlands, and 11.5% more than across the East Midlands. Jobs based in Derbyshire Dales paid a median £662.60 a week, £141.40 less than the figure for people who live there. Ten years earlier, in 2015, it was £554.30: a change of +45% before inflation.
A girl born in Derbyshire Dales in 2022 to 2024 could expect to live 84.7 years and a boy 81.4 years, on the ONS's period measure (England: 83.3 and 79.5). For women that is 0.1 years more than in 2012 to 2014; for men, 0.1 more. It is the 4th highest for women of the 35 council areas in the East Midlands.
The police recorded 44.8 crimes per 1,000 residents in Derbyshire Dales in the year to March 2026 (3,230 offences in all), the 29th highest rate of the 32 council areas in the East Midlands. A year earlier it was 49.6. The highest rate in the series was 49.6, in the year to March 2024. Fraud is not included.
An estimated 84.1% of people aged 16 to 64 living in Derbyshire Dales were in work in April 2025 to March 2026, according to the ONS Annual Population Survey (give or take 7.6 points); the figure for the East Midlands was 75.4%. Over the 11 years shown it ranged from 65.1% to 86.9%.
Average Band D council tax in Derbyshire Dales is £2,444.70 for 2026-27, 4.8% more than in 2025-26. That makes it mid-table in the East Midlands, 15th of 35. In 2016-17 the figure was £1,655.68, so it has risen 48%.
In March 2026, 5,165 VAT or PAYE-registered businesses were based in Derbyshire Dales, 1% fewer than in 2016. That is 72 for every 1,000 residents, the highest of the 35 council areas in the East Midlands.
History
Population (mid-year)
| 2015 | 70,893 |
| 2016 | 70,883 |
| 2017 | 71,092 |
| 2018 | 71,130 |
| 2019 | 71,190 |
| 2020 | 70,972 |
| 2021 | 71,659 |
| 2022 | 71,713 |
| 2023 | 72,027 |
| 2024 | 71,762 |
| 2025 | 72,028 |
Average house price (same month each year)
| July 2016 | £236,441 |
| July 2017 | £245,842 |
| July 2018 | £264,734 |
| July 2019 | £257,980 |
| July 2020 | £270,370 |
| July 2021 | £297,557 |
| July 2022 | £324,310 |
| July 2023 | £322,580 |
| July 2024 | £325,123 |
| July 2025 | £331,676 |
| July 2026 | £355,387 |
Median weekly pay, residents
| 2015 | £554.30 a week |
| 2016 | £606.30 a week |
| 2017 | £573.30 a week |
| 2018 | £601.50 a week |
| 2019 | £552.70 a week |
| 2020 | £602.00 a week |
| 2021 | £566.40 a week |
| 2022 | £675.00 a week |
| 2023 | £747.50 a week |
| 2024 | £768.90 a week |
| 2025 | £804.00 a week |
Average Band D council tax
| 2016-17 | £1,655.68 |
| 2017-18 | £1,713.65 |
| 2018-19 | £1,796.44 |
| 2019-20 | £1,880.65 |
| 2020-21 | £1,926.31 |
| 2021-22 | £1,984.14 |
| 2022-23 | £2,042.49 |
| 2023-24 | £2,124.71 |
| 2024-25 | £2,224.06 |
| 2025-26 | £2,332.42 |
| 2026-27 | £2,444.70 |
Recorded crimes per 1,000 residents
| 2015/16 | 30.7 per 1,000 |
| 2016/17 | 31.0 per 1,000 |
| 2017/18 | 32.3 per 1,000 |
| 2018/19 | 33.9 per 1,000 |
| 2019/20 | 46.0 per 1,000 |
| 2020/21 | 43.2 per 1,000 |
| 2021/22 | 46.4 per 1,000 |
| 2022/23 | 46.0 per 1,000 |
| 2023/24 | 49.6 per 1,000 |
| 2025/26 | 44.8 per 1,000 |
Employment rate
| 2015/16 | 86.9% |
| 2016/17 | 82.8% |
| 2017/18 | 76.9% |
| 2018/19 | 82.9% |
| 2019/20 | 81.4% |
| 2020/21 | 71.8% |
| 2021/22 | 67.9% |
| 2022/23 | 73.8% |
| 2023/24 | 80.0% |
| 2024/25 | 65.1% |
| 2025/26 | 84.1% |
Life expectancy, women
| 2012 to 2014 | 84.6 years |
| 2013 to 2015 | 84.2 years |
| 2014 to 2016 | 83.9 years |
| 2015 to 2017 | 84.2 years |
| 2016 to 2018 | 84.7 years |
| 2017 to 2019 | 85.2 years |
| 2018 to 2020 | 84.9 years |
| 2019 to 2021 | 84.9 years |
| 2020 to 2022 | 84.4 years |
| 2021 to 2023 | 84.6 years |
| 2022 to 2024 | 84.7 years |
Registered businesses
| 2016 | 5,215 |
| 2017 | 5,320 |
| 2018 | 5,320 |
| 2019 | 5,325 |
| 2020 | 5,325 |
| 2021 | 5,205 |
| 2022 | 5,225 |
| 2023 | 5,145 |
| 2024 | 5,150 |
| 2025 | 5,165 |
| 2026 | 5,165 |
Questions about Derbyshire Dales
What is the average house price in Derbyshire Dales?
HM Land Registry's figure for July 2026 is £355,387.
How many people claim unemployment-related benefits in Derbyshire Dales?
The ONS claimant count was 745 in August 2026, 1.8% of 16 to 64-year-olds. It counts benefit claims, not unemployment.
What is the population of Derbyshire Dales?
72,028 in mid-2025, the latest ONS mid-year estimate.
What is the average salary in Derbyshire Dales?
Median pay for full-time employees living in Derbyshire Dales was £804.00 a week in April 2025 (£43,071 a year), from the ONS Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings.
What is life expectancy in Derbyshire Dales?
84.7 years for women and 81.4 for men (2022 to 2024, ONS).
What is the crime rate in Derbyshire Dales?
44.8 recorded crimes per 1,000 residents in the year to March 2026, excluding fraud (Home Office).
How much is Band D council tax in Derbyshire Dales?
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government gives an average Band D bill of £2,444.70 for 2026-27.
Who has power over Derbyshire Dales
Every body that makes decisions for Derbyshire Dales, from the street up to the G20. Each one links to its page on the official record. How the ten levels work.
Level 1: Neighbourhood and community power
Residents' and tenants' groups, neighbourhood forums and local policing panels.
Level 2: Parish, town and community councils
Parish, town and community councils, where the area has them, sit below the council.
Level 3: Local councils
- Derbyshire Dales council spending, reserves, debt and council tax
- Derbyshire Dales in official figures this page
Level 4: County councils, combined authorities and metro mayors
- Derbyshire County Council county council
- East Midlands Combined Authority combined authority
- Derbyshire Constabulary police force
- Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust NHS
- NHS Derby and Derbyshire Integrated Care Board NHS
- East Midlands in official figures
Level 5: Devolved and state governments
England has no devolved parliament of its own: its laws are made by the UK Parliament.
Level 6: National government
- Derbyshire Dales: John Whitby (Labour) MP
- All 650 MPs votes, interests and costs
- UK government and Parliament official figures and sources
Level 7: Regional blocs and supranational bodies
- Council of Europe and the European Court of Human Rights (CoE / ECtHR) The UK Government says the United Kingdom was one of the Council of Europe's founding members.
Level 8: The UN and global treaty bodies
- United Nations (General Assembly and Security Council) The UN lists the United Kingdom as a member admitted on 24 October 1945.
- United Nations Security Council (UNSC) The UK is one of the five permanent members of the Security Council and holds the veto, according to the UN.
- NATO NATO lists the United Kingdom among its 12 founding members, which signed the North Atlantic Treaty in Washington, D.C.
- World Health Organization (WHO) WHO's list of member states includes the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
- World Trade Organization (WTO) The WTO says the United Kingdom has been a WTO member since 1 January 1995 and a member of GATT since 1 January 1948.
- Commonwealth of Nations The UK is one of the 56 members, one of three European members with Cyprus and Malta, and the Commonwealth Secretariat is headquartered at Marlborough House in London.
Level 9: The IMF, World Bank and global finance
- International Monetary Fund (IMF) The UK has been a member since 27 December 1945 and has a quota of SDR 20,155.1 million (IMF country page for the United Kingdom).
- World Bank Group (WBG) The UK holds 3.75% of voting power in the IBRD (data as of 30 June 2026) and 6.92% in IDA (as of 30 June 2026), according to the World Bank's voting tables.
Level 10: G7, G20, Davos and global forums
Sources
Each value above links to the official file or query it was read from, on 14 October 2026. What each figure measures.
- Recorded crime: The year to March 2025 is left out because the Home Office says some Derbyshire offences were not assigned to a partnership that year. Years before April 2020 come from the earlier Home Office table.
More on this area and these figures
- Council money: spending, reserves and debt
- Figures for the whole region: the East Midlands
- UK figures: UK average house price · UK unemployment rate · UK population
- Other council areas in the East Midlands: Bolsover · Boston · High Peak · Melton · Oadby and Wigston · West Lindsey
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