Schools
98 open schools are in scope, including 63 primary and 14 secondary schools. Intack Primary School is the nearest published school at 214 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB1 3NR
Little Harwood & Whitebirk · Blackburn with Darwen · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Blackburn
- Local authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Blackburn
- Postcode district
- BB1
- Postcode sector
- BB1 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB1 3NR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB1
- Postcode sector
- BB1 3
- Latitude
- 53.749751
- Longitude
- -2.443263
- British National Grid easting
- 370,867
- British National Grid northing
- 428,243
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
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 24, Hamer Avenue, Blackburn, BB1 3NR | 31 March 2016 | £60,000 |
| 11, Hamer Avenue, Blackburn, BB1 3NR | 13 August 2015 | £91,000 |
| 26, Hamer Avenue, Blackburn, BB1 3NR | 31 March 2011 | £43,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 98
- Primary
- 63
- Secondary
- 14
- 214 m
Intack Primary School
Community school
- 706 m
Shadsworth Infant School
Community school
- 833 m
Knuzden St Oswald's Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,163
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 950
- Anti social behaviour 350
- Criminal damage and arson 166
- Public order 157
- Other theft 154
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 86
- Postcode households
- 31
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- BB1 3 residents
- 3,851
41 female, 45 male
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
This postcode contained 2.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BB1 3 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 78.8%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
27
within 5 km
STEPPING STONE PRACTICE
LONGTON CLOSE, BLACKBURN, BB1 1XA
ODS code P81167
920 m
THE CORNERSTONE PRACTICE
SHADSWORTH HOUSE, SHADSWORTH ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 2HR
ODS code P81734
1.3 km
WILLIAM HOPWOOD STREET SURGERY
WILLIAM HOPWOOD STREET, AUDLEY, BLACKBURN, BB1 1LX
ODS code P81707
1.5 km
PRINGLE STREET SURGERY
216-218 PRINGLE STREET, BLACKBURN, BB1 1SB
ODS code P81724
1.8 km
LITTLE HARWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
PLANE TREE ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 6PH
ODS code P81005
1.9 km
PRIMROSE BANK MEDICAL CENTRE
PRIMROSE BANK, BLACKBURN, BB1 5ER
ODS code P81771
2.2 km
SHIFA SURGERY
BANGOR STREET, BLACKBURN, BB1 6DY
ODS code P81622
2.3 km
ST GEORGES SURGERY
ST GEORGE'S SURGERY, 62 HASLINGDEN ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB2 3HS
ODS code P81058
2.5 km
BLAKEWATER HEALTHCARE
367 WHALLEY NEW ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 9SR
ODS code P81704
2.6 km
OLIVE MEDICAL CENTRE
3 LIME STREET, BLACKBURN, BB1 7EP
ODS code P81683
2.7 km
THE WEAVERS PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, RISHTON, BLACKBURN, BB1 4LA
ODS code P81755
2.8 km
FAMILY PRACTICE
BARBARA CASTLE WAY HC, SIMMONS STREET, BLACKBURN, BB2 1AX
ODS code P81694
3.0 km
OAKENHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
BARBARA CASTLE WAY HC, SIMMONS STREET, BLACKBURN, BB2 1AX
ODS code P81125
3.0 km
ROMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
OFF FISHMOOR DRIVE, BLACKBURN, BB2 3UY
ODS code P81709
3.0 km
HIGHER HEYS SURGERY
OSWALDTWISTLE, ACCRINGTON, BB5 3BP
ODS code P81699
3.4 km
BROWNHILL SURGERY
788-790 WHALLEY NEW ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 9BA
ODS code P81155
3.7 km
ACCRINGTON VICTORIA GP PRACTICE
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code Y02605
3.9 km
DR BELLO'S SURGERY
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81166
3.9 km
KING STREET MEDICAL CTR
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81726
3.9 km
RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTRE
ACORN PRIMARY HEALTH C C, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81182
3.9 km
Showing 20 of 27 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Hamer Avenue
BCT · Intack
- 0.1 miles
Hamer Avenue
BCT · Intack
- 0.1 miles
Surrey Road
BCT · Intack
- 0.1 miles
Surrey Road
BCT · Intack
- 0.1 miles
Accrington Road
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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,163 published events cover 12 months, averaging 180.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 950 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.