Darwen East · Blackburn with Darwen · England
Updated September 2026
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At this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 47, Railway Road, Darwen, BB3 2RJ | 5 November 2025 | £100,000 |
| 41, Railway Road, Darwen, BB3 2RJ | 1 August 2023 | £90,000 |
| 46, Railway Road, Darwen, BB3 2RJ | 26 July 2023 | £97,000 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Academy sponsor led
Holy Trinity VC School
Voluntary controlled school
Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio
Studio schools
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
10 female, 15 male
1,481 residents
922 residents
2,312 residents
2,539 residents
1,694 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% 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
8
within 5 km
JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81051
438 m
DARWEN HEALTH CENTRE, JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81140
438 m
SPRINGFIELD SURGERY, 102 BOLTON ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1BZ
ODS code P81633
613 m
153 BLACKBURN ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1ET
ODS code P81721
1.3 km
OFF FISHMOOR DRIVE, BLACKBURN, BB2 3UY
ODS code P81709
3.6 km
BENTHAM ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB2 4QD
ODS code Y02657
4.7 km
ST GEORGE'S SURGERY, 62 HASLINGDEN ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB2 3HS
ODS code P81058
4.7 km
SHADSWORTH HOUSE, SHADSWORTH ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 2HR
ODS code P81734
4.9 km
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Library
BCT · Darwen
Railway Station
BCT · Darwen
Railway Station
BCT · Darwen
Darwen Rail Station
RSE · Darwen
Sarah Street
BCT · Darwen
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Blackburn with Darwen 016D, 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
3,487 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 £93,500 from 6 recorded sales in BB3 2RJ. 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
41 open schools are in scope, including 26 primary and 5 secondary schools. Darwen Aldridge Community Academy is the nearest published school at 317 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Published police records
2,440 published events cover 12 months, averaging 203.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,089 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.