Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 24 primary and 5 secondary schools. Holy Trinity VC School is the nearest published school at 88 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB3 9AG
Darwen West · Blackburn with Darwen · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Darwen West
- Local authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen
- Postcode district
- BB3
- Postcode sector
- BB3 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB3 9AG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 August 2020
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB3
- Postcode sector
- BB3 9
- Latitude
- 53.695027
- Longitude
- -2.468069
- British National Grid easting
- 369,191
- British National Grid northing
- 422,165
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Blackburn with Darwen · E06000008
- Electoral ward
- Darwen West · E05011516
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 24
- Secondary
- 5
- 88 m
Holy Trinity VC School
Voluntary controlled school
- 236 m
Darwen Aldridge Enterprise Studio
Studio schools
- 347 m
Darwen Aldridge Community Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,387
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,033
- Anti social behaviour 403
- Criminal damage and arson 186
- Vehicle crime 158
- Other theft 124
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
7
within 5 km
DARWEN HEALTHCARE
JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81051
236 m
DARWEN HEALTHLINK
DARWEN HEALTH CENTRE, JAMES STREET WEST, DARWEN, BB3 1PY
ODS code P81140
236 m
SPRING-FENISCO HEALTHLINK
SPRINGFIELD SURGERY, 102 BOLTON ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1BZ
ODS code P81633
432 m
HOLLINS GROVE SURGERY
153 BLACKBURN ROAD, DARWEN, BB3 1ET
ODS code P81721
1.3 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
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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Town Centre
BCT · Darwen
- 0.0 miles
Circus
BCT · Darwen
- 0.1 miles
Town Centre
BCT · Darwen
- 0.1 miles
Bus Station Set Down
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.
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
- 0
- 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
2,387 published events cover 12 months, averaging 198.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,033 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.