Schools
95 open schools are in scope, including 61 primary and 13 secondary schools. Intack Primary School is the nearest published school at 293 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB1 3GB
Little Harwood & Whitebirk · Blackburn with Darwen · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Blackburn
- Postcode district
- BB1
- Postcode sector
- BB1 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB1 3GB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB1
- Postcode sector
- BB1 3
- Latitude
- 53.749798
- Longitude
- -2.447510
- British National Grid easting
- 370,587
- British National Grid northing
- 428,250
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Blackburn with Darwen · E06000008
- Electoral ward
- Little Harwood & Whitebirk · E05011518
- Parish or community
- E43000279
- Westminster constituency
- Blackburn · E14001102
- Output area
- E00063720
- Lower layer super output area
- Blackburn with Darwen 008D · E01012639
- Middle layer super output area
- Blackburn with Darwen 008 · E02002622
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BB1
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 95
- Primary
- 61
- Secondary
- 13
- 293 m
Intack Primary School
Community school
- 712 m
Shadsworth Infant School
Community school
- 892 m
St Antony's RC Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,430
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,071
- Anti social behaviour 404
- Criminal damage and arson 185
- Public order 167
- Other theft 166
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BB1 3 residents
- 3,851
Age bands in BB1 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 16.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.4%
850 residents
623 residents
889 residents
841 residents
584 residents
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
GP practices
27
within 5 km straight-line
STEPPING STONE PRACTICE
LONGTON CLOSE, BLACKBURN, BB1 1XA
ODS code P81167
656 m
THE CORNERSTONE PRACTICE
SHADSWORTH HOUSE, SHADSWORTH ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 2HR
ODS code P81734
1.2 km
WILLIAM HOPWOOD STREET SURGERY
WILLIAM HOPWOOD STREET, AUDLEY, BLACKBURN, BB1 1LX
ODS code P81707
1.2 km
PRINGLE STREET SURGERY
216-218 PRINGLE STREET, BLACKBURN, BB1 1SB
ODS code P81724
1.6 km
LITTLE HARWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
PLANE TREE ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 6PH
ODS code P81005
1.6 km
PRIMROSE BANK MEDICAL CENTRE
PRIMROSE BANK, BLACKBURN, BB1 5ER
ODS code P81771
1.9 km
SHIFA SURGERY
BANGOR STREET, BLACKBURN, BB1 6DY
ODS code P81622
2.1 km
ST GEORGES SURGERY
ST GEORGE'S SURGERY, 62 HASLINGDEN ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB2 3HS
ODS code P81058
2.2 km
BLAKEWATER HEALTHCARE
367 WHALLEY NEW ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 9SR
ODS code P81704
2.4 km
OLIVE MEDICAL CENTRE
3 LIME STREET, BLACKBURN, BB1 7EP
ODS code P81683
2.4 km
FAMILY PRACTICE
BARBARA CASTLE WAY HC, SIMMONS STREET, BLACKBURN, BB2 1AX
ODS code P81694
2.7 km
OAKENHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
BARBARA CASTLE WAY HC, SIMMONS STREET, BLACKBURN, BB2 1AX
ODS code P81125
2.7 km
ROMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
OFF FISHMOOR DRIVE, BLACKBURN, BB2 3UY
ODS code P81709
2.9 km
THE WEAVERS PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, RISHTON, BLACKBURN, BB1 4LA
ODS code P81755
3.0 km
BROWNHILL SURGERY
788-790 WHALLEY NEW ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 9BA
ODS code P81155
3.5 km
HIGHER HEYS SURGERY
OSWALDTWISTLE, ACCRINGTON, BB5 3BP
ODS code P81699
3.7 km
LIMEFIELD SURGERY
293-295 PRESTON NEW ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB2 6PL
ODS code P81214
3.7 km
REDLAM SURGERY
62-64 REDLAM, BLACKBURN, BB2 1UW
ODS code P81061
3.8 km
WITTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PRESTON OLD RD, WITTON, BLACKBURN, BB2 2SU
ODS code P81022
4.1 km
ACCRINGTON VICTORIA GP PRACTICE
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code Y02605
4.1 km
Showing 20 of 27 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Surrey Road
BCT · Intack
- 0.1 miles
Surrey Road
BCT · Intack
- 0.1 miles
Brecon Road
BCT · Intack
- 0.1 miles
Hereford Road Shops
BCT · Intack
- 0.1 miles
Hamer Avenue
BCT · Intack
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Blackburn with Darwen 008D, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
1 of 10
Overall England rank
908 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,430 published events cover 12 months, averaging 202.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,071 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.