Darwen South · Blackburn with Darwen · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcode| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 78, Ratcliffe Street, Darwen, BB3 2BZ | 8 May 2026 | £105,300 |
| 58, Ratcliffe Street, Darwen, BB3 2BZ | 3 February 2026 | £80,000 |
| 86, Ratcliffe Street, Darwen, BB3 2BZ | 22 May 2025 | £90,000 |
Within 5 km 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
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BB3 2 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.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
5
within 5 km straight-line
SPRINGFIELD SURGERY, 102 BOLTON ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1BZ
ODS code P81633
489 m
JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81051
891 m
DARWEN HEALTH CENTRE, JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81140
891 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
Holker Street
BCT · Darwen
Cross Barn
BCT · Darwen
Primrose Street
BCT · Darwen
Brandwood Street
BCT · Darwen
India Street
BCT · Darwen
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Blackburn with Darwen 015A, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
6,836 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.
The five-year median is £85,000 from 10 recorded sales in BB3 2BZ. 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.
32 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Turncroft Nursery School is the nearest published school at 133 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
2,126 published events cover 12 months, averaging 177 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 917 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.