Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 3 secondary schools. Shuttleworth College is the nearest published school at 233 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB12 6PA
Whittlefield with Ightenhill · Burnley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB12 6PA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB12
- Postcode sector
- BB12 6
- Latitude
- 53.797077
- Longitude
- -2.295957
- British National Grid easting
- 380,603
- British National Grid northing
- 433,458
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Burnley · E07000117
- Electoral ward
- Whittlefield with Ightenhill · E05005164
- Parish or community
- E04005136
- Westminster constituency
- Burnley · E14001142
- Output area
- E00126455
- Lower layer super output area
- Burnley 005C · E01024912
- Middle layer super output area
- Burnley 005 · E02005180
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
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Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 485, Padiham Road, Burnley, BB12 6PA | 16 November 2007 | £219,500 |
| 481, Padiham Road, Burnley, BB12 6PA | 22 January 1998 | £55,000 |
| 487, Padiham Road, Burnley, BB12 6PA | 15 December 1995 | £100,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 54
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 3
- 233 m
Shuttleworth College
Foundation school
- 253 m
Burnley High School
Free schools
- 523 m
Padiham Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,042
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 848
- Anti social behaviour 387
- Criminal damage and arson 185
- Burglary 137
- Public order 122
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 84
- Postcode households
- 55
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- BB12 6 residents
- 9,084
52 female, 32 male
Age bands in BB12 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.4%
1,624 residents
875 residents
2,539 residents
2,333 residents
1,776 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BB12 6 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+
- 6.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 6.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 6.9%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 94.8%
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
10
within 5 km
PADIHAM GROUP PRACTICE
PADIHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, 36 BURNLEY ROAD, PADIHAM, BURNLEY, BB12 8BP
ODS code P81130
1.2 km
ROSEGROVE SURGERY
225-227 GANNOW LANE, BURNLEY, BB12 6HY
ODS code P81197
1.4 km
IGHTENHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
TABOR STREET, BURNLEY, BB12 0HL
ODS code P81165
1.9 km
PARKSIDE SURGERY
PRESTIGE PARK, COLNE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB11 1PS
ODS code P81047
3.6 km
BURNLEY GROUP PRACTICE
ST PETERS CENTRE, 3RD FLOOR CHURCH STREET, BURNLEY, BB11 2DL
ODS code P81020
3.8 km
RIVERSIDE FAMILY PRACTICE
ST PETERS CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, BURNLEY, BB11 2DL
ODS code P81780
3.8 km
COLNE ROAD SURGERY
34-36 COLNE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 1LS
ODS code P81035
3.9 km
YORKSHIRE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
80 YORKSHIRE STREET, BURNLEY, BB11 3BT
ODS code P81008
4.1 km
BURNLEY WOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
50 PARLIAMENT STREET, BURNLEY, BB11 3HR
ODS code P81137
4.2 km
THURSBY SURGERY
2 BROWHEAD ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 3BF
ODS code P81095
4.3 km
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Whitegate
BCT · Whitegate
- 0.1 miles
Byron Street
BCT · Whitegate
- 0.1 miles
Byron Street
BCT · Whitegate
- 0.1 miles
Cowley Crescent
BCT · Whitegate
- 0.1 miles
Shuttleworth College Grounds
BCT · Whitegate
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Burnley 005C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
30,216 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
- 1
- 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
2,042 published events cover 12 months, averaging 170.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 848 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.