Property market
The five-year median is £950,000 from 1 recorded sale in BB2 7QB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Ribble Valley is £287,641 in June 2026, up 5.0% year on year.
BB2 7QB
Mellor · Ribble Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Blackburn
- Ward
- Mellor
- Local authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley
- Postcode district
- BB2
- Postcode sector
- BB2 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB2 7QB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB2
- Postcode sector
- BB2 7
- Latitude
- 53.759023
- Longitude
- -2.559941
- British National Grid easting
- 363,181
- British National Grid northing
- 429,329
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Ribble Valley · E07000124
- Electoral ward
- Mellor · E05012014
- Parish or community
- E04005267
- Westminster constituency
- Ribble Valley · E14001443
- Output area
- E00128591
- Lower layer super output area
- Ribble Valley 008E · E01025337
- Middle layer super output area
- Ribble Valley 008 · E02005277
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
Property
12 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Woodfold Forge, The Lodge, Further Lane, Mellor, Blackburn, BB2 7QB | 17 October 2024 | £950,000 |
| Pipers Pool, Further Lane, Mellor, Blackburn, BB2 7QB | 7 February 2020 | £468,000 |
| Cooks Farm, Further Lane, Mellor, Blackburn, BB2 7QB | 11 April 2019 | £737,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 33
- Primary
- 23
- Secondary
- 6
- 2.0 km
Westholme School
Other independent school
- 2.4 km
Mellor St Mary Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.8 km
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Osbaldeston
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 31
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Other theft 7
- Anti social behaviour 7
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Drugs 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 28
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- BB2 7 residents
- 7,631
14 female, 14 male
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
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BB2 7 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+
- 0%
- 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
6
within 5 km
LIMEFIELD SURGERY
293-295 PRESTON NEW ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB2 6PL
ODS code P81214
3.8 km
WITTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PRESTON OLD RD, WITTON, BLACKBURN, BB2 2SU
ODS code P81022
4.0 km
REDLAM SURGERY
62-64 REDLAM, BLACKBURN, BB2 1UW
ODS code P81061
4.1 km
BENTHAM ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
BENTHAM ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB2 4QD
ODS code Y02657
4.7 km
FAMILY PRACTICE
BARBARA CASTLE WAY HC, SIMMONS STREET, BLACKBURN, BB2 1AX
ODS code P81694
4.8 km
OAKENHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
BARBARA CASTLE WAY HC, SIMMONS STREET, BLACKBURN, BB2 1AX
ODS code P81125
4.8 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
- 0.6 miles
Spring Lane
BCT · Nabs Head
- 0.6 miles
Spring Lane
BCT · Nabs Head
- 0.8 miles
BAE South Entrance
BCT · Samlesbury
- 0.8 miles
The Poplars
BCT · Samlesbury
- 0.8 miles
BAE South Entrance
BCT · Samlesbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ribble Valley 008E, 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
27,337 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
33 open schools are in scope, including 23 primary and 6 secondary schools. Westholme School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
31 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.