Property market
The five-year median is £235,000 from 8 recorded sales in BB4 8SS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Rossendale is £193,320 in June 2026, up 4.6% year on year.
BB4 8SS
Longholme · Rossendale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Rossendale
- Ward
- Longholme
- Local authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen
- Postcode district
- BB4
- Postcode sector
- BB4 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB4 8SS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB4
- Postcode sector
- BB4 8
- Latitude
- 53.701611
- Longitude
- -2.294300
- British National Grid easting
- 380,668
- British National Grid northing
- 422,836
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Rossendale · E07000125
- Electoral ward
- Longholme · E05015824
- Parish or community
- E43000099
- Westminster constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen · E14001450
- Output area
- E00128837
- Lower layer super output area
- Rossendale 004F · E01025387
- Middle layer super output area
- Rossendale 004 · E02005281
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 BB4
Property
51 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 18, Haworth Avenue, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, BB4 8SS | 20 February 2026 | £205,000 |
| 41, Haworth Avenue, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, BB4 8SS | 12 November 2024 | £250,000 |
| 32, Haworth Avenue, Rawtenstall, Rossendale, BB4 8SS | 20 September 2024 | £190,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 32
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 5
- 371 m
St James-the-Less Roman Catholic Primary School, Rawtenstall
Voluntary aided school
- 436 m
Belmont School
Other independent special school
- 451 m
St Mary's CofE Primary School Rawtenstall
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,321
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 497
- Anti social behaviour 218
- Shoplifting 152
- Criminal damage and arson 106
- Other theft 80
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 148
- Postcode households
- 57
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- BB4 8 residents
- 9,275
72 female, 76 male
Age bands in BB4 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.9%
1,586 residents
871 residents
2,224 residents
2,608 residents
1,700 residents
This postcode contained 1.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BB4 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
7
within 5 km
ST JAMES' MEDICAL CENTRE
BURNLEY ROAD, RAWTENSTALL, ROSSENDALE, BB4 8HH
ODS code P81003
879 m
FAIRMORE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ROSSENDALE PHCC, 161 BACUP ROAD, RAWTENSTALL, ROSSENDALE, BB4 7PL
ODS code Y02606
905 m
ILEX VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
ROSSENDALE PRIMARY HEALTH CC, 161 BACUP ROAD, RAWTENSTALL, ROSSENDALE, BB4 7PL
ODS code P81118
905 m
HASLINGDEN HEALTHCARE
HASLINGDEN HEALTH CENTRE, MANCHESTER ROAD, HASLINGDEN, ROSSENDALE, BB4 5SL
ODS code P81099
2.0 km
HAZELVALLEY FAMILY PRACTICE
7-9 MANCHESTER ROAD, HASLINGDEN, ROSSENDALE, BB4 5SL
ODS code P81212
2.0 km
ROSSENDALE VALLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
27 MANCHESTER ROAD, HASLINGDEN, ROSSENDALE, BB4 5SL
ODS code P81686
2.0 km
WATERFOOT MEDICAL PRACTICE
WATERFOOT HEALTH CENTRE, COWPE ROAD, WATERFOOT, ROSSENDALE, BB4 7DN
ODS code P81132
3.0 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
Barritt Road
BCT · Oakley
- 0.1 miles
Haworth Avenue
BCT · Oakley
- 0.1 miles
Hargreaves Drive
BCT · Oakley
- 0.1 miles
Spring Bank Fm
BCT · Rawtenstall
- 0.1 miles
Hargreaves Drive
BCT · Oakley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rossendale 004F, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,296 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
Schools
32 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 5 secondary schools. St James-the-Less Roman Catholic Primary School, Rawtenstall is the nearest published school at 371 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,321 published events cover 12 months, averaging 110.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 497 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.