Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 3 secondary schools. Water Primary School is the nearest published school at 413 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB4 9PB
Whitewell & Stacksteads · Rossendale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Rossendale
- Local authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen
- Postcode district
- BB4
- Postcode sector
- BB4 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB4 9PB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 1985
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB4
- Postcode sector
- BB4 9
- Latitude
- 53.729426
- Longitude
- -2.238929
- British National Grid easting
- 384,334
- British National Grid northing
- 425,917
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Rossendale · E07000125
- Electoral ward
- Whitewell & Stacksteads · E05015825
- Parish or community
- E43000099
- Westminster constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen · E14001450
- Output area
- E00128869
- Lower layer super output area
- Rossendale 001D · E01025393
- Middle layer super output area
- Rossendale 001 · E02005278
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
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Property
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Silver Ash, 1, Shepherds Green, Water, Rossendale, BB4 9PB | 15 February 2021 | £287,500 |
| Inglenook, 6, Shepherds Green, Water, Rossendale, BB4 9PB | 14 March 2018 | £335,000 |
| The Shearing, 7, Shepherds Green, Water, Rossendale, BB4 9PB | 21 July 2016 | £295,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 23
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 3
- 413 m
Water Primary School
Community school
- 2.9 km
Northern Primary School
Community school
- 3.0 km
St Anne's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 57
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 23
- Anti social behaviour 12
- Criminal damage and arson 9
- Public order 4
- Drugs 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- BB4 9 residents
- 5,860
9 female, 9 male
Age bands in BB4 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.9%
964 residents
554 residents
1,351 residents
1,713 residents
1,070 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BB4 9 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
5
within 5 km
ST JAMES' MEDICAL CENTRE
BURNLEY ROAD, RAWTENSTALL, ROSSENDALE, BB4 8HH
ODS code P81003
4.0 km
FAIRMORE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ROSSENDALE PHCC, 161 BACUP ROAD, RAWTENSTALL, ROSSENDALE, BB4 7PL
ODS code Y02606
4.2 km
ILEX VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
ROSSENDALE PRIMARY HEALTH CC, 161 BACUP ROAD, RAWTENSTALL, ROSSENDALE, BB4 7PL
ODS code P81118
4.2 km
IRWELL MEDICAL PRACTICE
IRWELL MEDICAL CENTRE, IRWELL MILL, ROCHDALE ROAD, BACUP, OL13 9NR
ODS code P81027
4.3 km
WATERFOOT MEDICAL PRACTICE
WATERFOOT HEALTH CENTRE, COWPE ROAD, WATERFOOT, ROSSENDALE, BB4 7DN
ODS code P81132
4.3 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
- 0.1 miles
Dean Lane
BCT · Water
- 0.1 miles
Dean Lane
BCT · Water
- 0.1 miles
Dean Lane
BCT · Water
- 0.2 miles
County Primary School
BCT · Water
- 0.2 miles
Stony Hill
BCT · Water
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rossendale 001D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,245 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
57 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 23 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.