Property market
The five-year median is £96,250 from 16 recorded sales in BB12 8RG. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Burnley is £134,515 in June 2026, up 9.9% year on year.
BB12 8RG
Gawthorpe · Burnley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB12 8RG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB12
- Postcode sector
- BB12 8
- Latitude
- 53.796341
- Longitude
- -2.306351
- British National Grid easting
- 379,918
- British National Grid northing
- 433,379
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
- E00126294
- Lower layer super output area
- Burnley 004D · E01024886
- 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
Property
66 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 42, Shakespeare Street, Padiham, Burnley, BB12 8RG | 20 February 2026 | £115,000 |
| 27, Shakespeare Street, Padiham, Burnley, BB12 8RG | 8 January 2026 | £81,500 |
| 3a, Shakespeare Street, Padiham, Burnley, BB12 8RG | 5 December 2025 | £137,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 2
- 195 m
Whitegate Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 268 m
Padiham Primary School
Community school
- 477 m
Shuttleworth College
Foundation school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,806
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 798
- Anti social behaviour 345
- Criminal damage and arson 172
- Public order 105
- Burglary 83
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 92
- Postcode households
- 32
- Residents per household
- 2.9
- BB12 8 residents
- 8,200
58 female, 34 male
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
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BB12 8 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
- 100%
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
680 m
ROSEGROVE SURGERY
225-227 GANNOW LANE, BURNLEY, BB12 6HY
ODS code P81197
1.9 km
IGHTENHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
TABOR STREET, BURNLEY, BB12 0HL
ODS code P81165
2.6 km
PARKSIDE SURGERY
PRESTIGE PARK, COLNE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB11 1PS
ODS code P81047
4.3 km
BURNLEY GROUP PRACTICE
ST PETERS CENTRE, 3RD FLOOR CHURCH STREET, BURNLEY, BB11 2DL
ODS code P81020
4.5 km
RIVERSIDE FAMILY PRACTICE
ST PETERS CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, BURNLEY, BB11 2DL
ODS code P81780
4.5 km
COLNE ROAD SURGERY
34-36 COLNE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 1LS
ODS code P81035
4.6 km
YORKSHIRE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
80 YORKSHIRE STREET, BURNLEY, BB11 3BT
ODS code P81008
4.8 km
BURNLEY WOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
50 PARLIAMENT STREET, BURNLEY, BB11 3HR
ODS code P81137
4.8 km
THURSBY SURGERY
2 BROWHEAD ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 3BF
ODS code P81095
4.9 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
Milton Street
BCT · Padiham
- 0.2 miles
Milton Street
BCT · Padiham
- 0.2 miles
Victoria Road
BCT · Padiham
- 0.2 miles
Victoria Road
BCT · Padiham
- 0.2 miles
Warwick Drive
BCT · Padiham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Burnley 004D, 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
3,164 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
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
Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 2 secondary schools. Whitegate Nursery School is the nearest published school at 195 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,806 published events cover 12 months, averaging 150.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 798 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.