Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 2 secondary schools. Padiham Primary School is the nearest published school at 429 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB12 8FG
Gawthorpe · Burnley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB12 8FG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB12
- Postcode sector
- BB12 8
- Latitude
- 53.800883
- Longitude
- -2.308266
- British National Grid easting
- 379,794
- British National Grid northing
- 433,885
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Burnley · E07000117
- Electoral ward
- Gawthorpe · E05005157
- Parish or community
- E04005138
- Westminster constituency
- Burnley · E14001142
- Output area
- E00126304
- Lower layer super output area
- Burnley 004C · E01024885
- Middle layer super output area
- Burnley 004 · E02005179
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 BB12
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 2
- 429 m
Padiham Primary School
Community school
- 621 m
Padiham Green Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 656 m
Padiham St Leonard's Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,636
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 728
- Anti social behaviour 307
- Criminal damage and arson 159
- Public order 95
- Burglary 74
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BB12 8 residents
- 8,200
Age bands in BB12 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.1%
1,297 residents
815 residents
1,810 residents
2,225 residents
1,744 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.
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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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
7
within 5 km
PADIHAM GROUP PRACTICE
PADIHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, 36 BURNLEY ROAD, PADIHAM, BURNLEY, BB12 8BP
ODS code P81130
367 m
ROSEGROVE SURGERY
225-227 GANNOW LANE, BURNLEY, BB12 6HY
ODS code P81197
2.3 km
IGHTENHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
TABOR STREET, BURNLEY, BB12 0HL
ODS code P81165
2.8 km
PARKSIDE SURGERY
PRESTIGE PARK, COLNE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB11 1PS
ODS code P81047
4.5 km
BURNLEY GROUP PRACTICE
ST PETERS CENTRE, 3RD FLOOR CHURCH STREET, BURNLEY, BB11 2DL
ODS code P81020
4.7 km
RIVERSIDE FAMILY PRACTICE
ST PETERS CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, BURNLEY, BB11 2DL
ODS code P81780
4.7 km
COLNE ROAD SURGERY
34-36 COLNE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 1LS
ODS code P81035
4.7 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
Victoria Road
BCT · Padiham
- 0.1 miles
Victoria Road
BCT · Padiham
- 0.2 miles
Bridge Inn
BCT · Padiham
- 0.2 miles
Bridge Inn
BCT · Padiham
- 0.2 miles
Waterside Mews
BCT · Padiham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Burnley 004C, 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
1,728 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
1,636 published events cover 12 months, averaging 136.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 728 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.