Darwen South · Blackburn with Darwen · England
Updated September 2026
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At this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 20, St Johns Avenue, Darwen, BB3 2BR | 27 October 2025 | £156,000 |
| 26, St Johns Avenue, Darwen, BB3 2BR | 8 August 2025 | £146,700 |
| 15, St Johns Avenue, Darwen, BB3 2BR | 15 May 2025 | £157,500 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
Turncroft Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Darwen St Peter's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Academy sponsor led
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
38 female, 27 male
1,481 residents
922 residents
2,312 residents
2,539 residents
1,694 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BB3 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
NHS ODS
5
within 5 km
SPRINGFIELD SURGERY, 102 BOLTON ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1BZ
ODS code P81633
606 m
JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81051
955 m
DARWEN HEALTH CENTRE, JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81140
955 m
153 BLACKBURN ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1ET
ODS code P81721
1.9 km
OFF FISHMOOR DRIVE, BLACKBURN, BB2 3UY
ODS code P81709
4.1 km
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Primrose Street
BCT · Darwen
Cross Barn
BCT · Darwen
Brandwood Street
BCT · Darwen
Holker Street
BCT · Darwen
Essex Street
BCT · Darwen
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Blackburn with Darwen 017B, 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
5,745 of 33,755
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.
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.
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.
A factual reading of the data in this report's scope. It is not a location score or a recommendation.
Recorded sales
The five-year median is £158,750 from 10 recorded sales in BB3 2BR. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Blackburn with Darwen is £165,882 in June 2026, up 5.8% year on year.
Published establishments
33 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 3 secondary schools. Turncroft Nursery School is the nearest published school at 79 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Published police records
2,111 published events cover 12 months, averaging 175.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 909 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.