Schools
53 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 8 secondary schools. Avondale Primary School is the nearest published school at 485 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB3 1DU
Darwen East · Blackburn with Darwen · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Darwen
- Ward
- Darwen East
- Local authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen
- Postcode district
- BB3
- Postcode sector
- BB3 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB3 1DU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 October 1984
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB3
- Postcode sector
- BB3 1
- Latitude
- 53.701132
- Longitude
- -2.472136
- British National Grid easting
- 368,927
- British National Grid northing
- 422,846
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Blackburn with Darwen · E06000008
- Electoral ward
- Darwen East · E05011514
- Parish or community
- E04012080
- Westminster constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen · E14001450
- Output area
- E00063753
- Lower layer super output area
- Blackburn with Darwen 014D · E01012648
- Middle layer super output area
- Blackburn with Darwen 014 · E02002628
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 BB3
Property
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, Dobson Street, Darwen, BB3 1DU | 28 February 2020 | £80,000 |
| 9, Dobson Street, Darwen, BB3 1DU | 28 June 2019 | £90,000 |
| 3, Dobson Street, Darwen, BB3 1DU | 11 April 2019 | £84,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 53
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 8
- 485 m
Avondale Primary School
Community school
- 534 m
Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio
Studio schools
- 649 m
Darwen St James CofE Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,563
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,127
- Anti social behaviour 444
- Criminal damage and arson 208
- Vehicle crime 145
- Other theft 130
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- BB3 1 residents
- 6,401
8 female, 8 male
Age bands in BB3 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 17%
1,244 residents
782 residents
1,966 residents
1,891 residents
1,209 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BB3 1 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
HOLLINS GROVE SURGERY
153 BLACKBURN ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1ET
ODS code P81721
588 m
DARWEN HEALTHCARE
JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81051
600 m
DARWEN HEALTHLINK
DARWEN HEALTH CENTRE, JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81140
600 m
SPRING-FENISCO HEALTHLINK
SPRINGFIELD SURGERY, 102 BOLTON ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1BZ
ODS code P81633
1.2 km
ROMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
OFF FISHMOOR DRIVE, BLACKBURN, BB2 3UY
ODS code P81709
3.0 km
BENTHAM ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
BENTHAM ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB2 4QD
ODS code Y02657
4.0 km
ST GEORGES SURGERY
ST GEORGE'S SURGERY, 62 HASLINGDEN ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB2 3HS
ODS code P81058
4.2 km
THE CORNERSTONE PRACTICE
SHADSWORTH HOUSE, SHADSWORTH ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 2HR
ODS code P81734
4.5 km
PRINGLE STREET SURGERY
216-218 PRINGLE STREET, BLACKBURN, BB1 1SB
ODS code P81724
4.6 km
WITTON MEDICAL CENTRE
PRESTON OLD RD, WITTON, BLACKBURN, BB2 2SU
ODS code P81022
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
British Queen
BCT · Darwen
- 0.1 miles
Heys Lane
BCT · Darwen
- 0.1 miles
Cotton Hall Street
BCT · Darwen
- 0.1 miles
Vale Street
BCT · Darwen
- 0.1 miles
Cotton Hall Street
BCT · Darwen
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Blackburn with Darwen 014D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
4,824 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 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
Recorded crime
2,563 published events cover 12 months, averaging 213.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,127 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.