Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 14 primary and 3 secondary schools. Aurora Woodlands School is the nearest published school at 824 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB3 2UA
Darwen South · Blackburn with Darwen · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Darwen
- Ward
- Darwen South
- 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 2UA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB3
- Postcode sector
- BB3 2
- Latitude
- 53.677107
- Longitude
- -2.476500
- British National Grid easting
- 368,621
- British National Grid northing
- 420,175
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Blackburn with Darwen · E06000008
- Electoral ward
- Darwen South · E05011515
- Parish or community
- E04012080
- Westminster constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen · E14001450
- Output area
- E00063818
- Lower layer super output area
- Blackburn with Darwen 017E · E01012660
- Middle layer super output area
- Blackburn with Darwen 017 · E02002631
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
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Lords Hall, Duckshaw Road, Darwen, BB3 2UA | 12 July 2018 | £1,000,000 |
| Greenlowe Farmhouse, Duckshaw Road, Darwen, BB3 2UA | 17 July 2015 | £310,000 |
| Lords Hall, Duckshaw Road, Darwen, BB3 2UA | 10 September 1999 | £110,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 14
- Secondary
- 3
- 824 m
Aurora Woodlands School
Other independent special school
- 993 m
Ashleigh Primary School
Foundation school
- 1.4 km
St Joseph's Roman Catholic Primary School, Darwen
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 273
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 93
- Anti social behaviour 65
- Other theft 27
- Criminal damage and arson 24
- Vehicle crime 21
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 20
- Postcode households
- 9
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- BB3 2 residents
- 9,125
11 female, 9 male
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
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
SPRING-FENISCO HEALTHLINK
SPRINGFIELD SURGERY, 102 BOLTON ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1BZ
ODS code P81633
1.7 km
DARWEN HEALTHCARE
JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81051
2.1 km
DARWEN HEALTHLINK
DARWEN HEALTH CENTRE, JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81140
2.1 km
HOLLINS GROVE SURGERY
153 BLACKBURN ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1ET
ODS code P81721
3.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.8 miles
Mayfield Flats
BCT · Darwen
- 0.9 miles
Cross Street
BCT · Darwen
- 0.9 miles
Manor Road
BCT · Darwen
- 0.9 miles
Huntington Drive
BCT · Darwen
- 1.0 miles
Belgrave Road
BCT · Darwen
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Blackburn with Darwen 017E, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,434 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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.
Flood risk
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.
- High risk addresses
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
273 published events cover 12 months, averaging 22.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 93 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.