Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 5 secondary schools. Holy Trinity VC School is the nearest published school at 207 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB3 2SP
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 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB3 2SP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 October 2016
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB3
- Postcode sector
- BB3 2
- Latitude
- 53.695196
- Longitude
- -2.466284
- British National Grid easting
- 369,309
- British National Grid northing
- 422,183
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
- E00181555
- Lower layer super output area
- Blackburn with Darwen 016D · E01012654
- Middle layer super output area
- Blackburn with Darwen 016 · E02002630
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Church Street, Darwen, BB3 2SP | 29 March 2019 | £140,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 5
- 207 m
Holy Trinity VC School
Voluntary controlled school
- 247 m
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 327 m
Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio
Studio schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,379
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,034
- Anti social behaviour 401
- Criminal damage and arson 184
- Vehicle crime 153
- Other theft 124
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BB3 2 residents
- 9,125
Age bands in BB3 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.9%
1,481 residents
922 residents
2,312 residents
2,539 residents
1,694 residents
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.
GP practices
7
within 5 km straight-line
DARWEN HEALTHCARE
JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81051
345 m
DARWEN HEALTHLINK
DARWEN HEALTH CENTRE, JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81140
345 m
SPRING-FENISCO HEALTHLINK
SPRINGFIELD SURGERY, 102 BOLTON ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1BZ
ODS code P81633
440 m
HOLLINS GROVE SURGERY
153 BLACKBURN ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1ET
ODS code P81721
1.4 km
ROMAN ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
OFF FISHMOOR DRIVE, BLACKBURN, BB2 3UY
ODS code P81709
3.7 km
BENTHAM ROAD HEALTH CENTRE
BENTHAM ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB2 4QD
ODS code Y02657
4.7 km
ST GEORGES SURGERY
ST GEORGE'S SURGERY, 62 HASLINGDEN ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB2 3HS
ODS code P81058
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Town Centre
BCT · Darwen
- 0.0 miles
Town Centre
BCT · Darwen
- 0.0 miles
Bus Station Set Down
BCT · Darwen
- 0.1 miles
Town Centre
BCT · Darwen
- 0.1 miles
Town Centre
BCT · Darwen
Relative deprivation
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
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,379 published events cover 12 months, averaging 198.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,034 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.