Schools
67 open schools are in scope, including 43 primary and 9 secondary schools. Lammack Primary School is the nearest published school at 427 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB2 7GZ
Billinge & Beardwood · Blackburn with Darwen · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Billinge & Beardwood
- Local authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Blackburn
- Postcode district
- BB2
- Postcode sector
- BB2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB2 7GZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB2
- Postcode sector
- BB2 7
- Latitude
- 53.768154
- Longitude
- -2.503261
- British National Grid easting
- 366,925
- British National Grid northing
- 430,317
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Blackburn with Darwen · E06000008
- Electoral ward
- Billinge & Beardwood · E05011510
- Parish or community
- E43000279
- Westminster constituency
- Blackburn · E14001102
- Output area
- E00063441
- Lower layer super output area
- Blackburn with Darwen 002C · E01012583
- Middle layer super output area
- Blackburn with Darwen 002 · E02002616
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 BB2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 67
- Primary
- 43
- Secondary
- 9
- 427 m
Lammack Primary School
Community school
- 987 m
Pleckgate High School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.3 km
St Gabriel's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 635
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 269
- Anti social behaviour 120
- Vehicle crime 64
- Other theft 40
- Criminal damage and arson 37
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BB2 7 residents
- 7,631
Age bands in BB2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.2%
1,499 residents
827 residents
1,835 residents
2,062 residents
1,778 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
18
within 5 km
BROWNHILL SURGERY
788-790 WHALLEY NEW ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 9BA
ODS code P81155
1.8 km
BLAKEWATER HEALTHCARE
367 WHALLEY NEW ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 9SR
ODS code P81704
2.0 km
LIMEFIELD SURGERY
293-295 PRESTON NEW ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB2 6PL
ODS code P81214
2.0 km
OLIVE MEDICAL CENTRE
3 LIME STREET, BLACKBURN, BB1 7EP
ODS code P81683
2.2 km
SHIFA SURGERY
BANGOR STREET, BLACKBURN, BB1 6DY
ODS code P81622
2.2 km
FAMILY PRACTICE
BARBARA CASTLE WAY HC, SIMMONS STREET, BLACKBURN, BB2 1AX
ODS code P81694
2.2 km
OAKENHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
BARBARA CASTLE WAY HC, SIMMONS STREET, BLACKBURN, BB2 1AX
ODS code P81125
2.2 km
PRIMROSE BANK MEDICAL CENTRE
PRIMROSE BANK, BLACKBURN, BB1 5ER
ODS code P81771
2.5 km
LITTLE HARWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
PLANE TREE ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 6PH
ODS code P81005
2.6 km
REDLAM SURGERY
62-64 REDLAM, BLACKBURN, BB2 1UW
ODS code P81061
2.8 km
WITTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PRESTON OLD RD, WITTON, BLACKBURN, BB2 2SU
ODS code P81022
3.1 km
WILLIAM HOPWOOD STREET SURGERY
WILLIAM HOPWOOD STREET, AUDLEY, BLACKBURN, BB1 1LX
ODS code P81707
3.5 km
PRINGLE STREET SURGERY
216-218 PRINGLE STREET, BLACKBURN, BB1 1SB
ODS code P81724
3.7 km
ST GEORGES SURGERY
ST GEORGE'S SURGERY, 62 HASLINGDEN ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB2 3HS
ODS code P81058
3.8 km
STEPPING STONE PRACTICE
LONGTON CLOSE, BLACKBURN, BB1 1XA
ODS code P81167
3.8 km
BENTHAM ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
BENTHAM ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB2 4QD
ODS code Y02657
4.2 km
THE CORNERSTONE PRACTICE
SHADSWORTH HOUSE, SHADSWORTH ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 2HR
ODS code P81734
4.6 km
ROMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
OFF FISHMOOR DRIVE, BLACKBURN, BB2 3UY
ODS code P81709
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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Yew Tree Drive
BCT · Lammack
- 0.2 miles
Yew Tree Drive
BCT · Lammack
- 0.2 miles
Barker Lane
BCT · Blackburn
- 0.2 miles
Whinney Lane
BCT · Lammack
- 0.2 miles
Barker Lane
BCT · Ramsgreave
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Blackburn with Darwen 002C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,666 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
635 published events cover 12 months, averaging 52.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 269 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.