Darwen South · Blackburn with Darwen · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcode| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Hillside Gardens, Darwen, BB3 2NJ | 21 June 2024 | £474,500 |
| 7, Hillside Gardens, Darwen, BB3 2NJ | 25 August 2023 | £180,000 |
| 1, Hillside Gardens, Darwen, BB3 2NJ | 4 June 2021 | £325,000 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Darwen
Voluntary aided school
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Academy sponsor led
Holy Trinity VC School
Voluntary controlled school
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
9 female, 12 male
1,481 residents
922 residents
2,312 residents
2,539 residents
1,694 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% 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 Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
5
within 5 km
SPRINGFIELD SURGERY, 102 BOLTON ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1BZ
ODS code P81633
244 m
JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81051
789 m
DARWEN HEALTH CENTRE, JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81140
789 m
153 BLACKBURN ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1ET
ODS code P81721
1.9 km
OFF FISHMOOR DRIVE, BLACKBURN, BB2 3UY
ODS code P81709
4.4 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.
Mill Gap Street
BCT · Darwen
Mill Gap Street
BCT · Darwen
Chapel Street
BCT · Darwen
Huntington Drive
BCT · Darwen
Cross Street
BCT · Darwen
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Blackburn with Darwen 017D, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,791 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 £327,250 from 2 recorded sales in BB3 2NJ. 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.
28 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 3 secondary schools. St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Darwen is the nearest published school at 143 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
2,025 published events cover 12 months, averaging 168.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 870 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.