Schools
28 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 4 secondary schools. Water Primary School is the nearest published school at 751 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB4 9RQ
Whitewell & Stacksteads · Rossendale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen
- Postcode district
- BB4
- Postcode sector
- BB4 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB4 9RQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB4
- Postcode sector
- BB4 9
- Latitude
- 53.720269
- Longitude
- -2.246969
- British National Grid easting
- 383,800
- British National Grid northing
- 424,900
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
- E00128863
- 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
Explore BB4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 751 m
Water Primary School
Community school
- 1.9 km
St Anne's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.4 km
St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Newchurch
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 110
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 44
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Criminal damage and arson 19
- Public order 6
- Other theft 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BB4 9 residents
- 5,860
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
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
5
within 5 km straight-line
ST JAMES' MEDICAL CENTRE
BURNLEY ROAD, RAWTENSTALL, ROSSENDALE, BB4 8HH
ODS code P81003
3.1 km
FAIRMORE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ROSSENDALE PHCC, 161 BACUP ROAD, RAWTENSTALL, ROSSENDALE, BB4 7PL
ODS code Y02606
3.1 km
ILEX VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
ROSSENDALE PRIMARY HEALTH CC, 161 BACUP ROAD, RAWTENSTALL, ROSSENDALE, BB4 7PL
ODS code P81118
3.1 km
WATERFOOT MEDICAL PRACTICE
WATERFOOT HEALTH CENTRE, COWPE ROAD, WATERFOOT, ROSSENDALE, BB4 7DN
ODS code P81132
3.2 km
IRWELL MEDICAL PRACTICE
IRWELL MEDICAL CENTRE, IRWELL MILL, ROCHDALE ROAD, BACUP, OL13 9NR
ODS code P81027
3.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hargreaves Arms
BCT · Lumb
- 0.1 miles
Hargreaves Arms
BCT · Lumb
- 0.1 miles
Peers Clough Road
BCT · Lumb
- 0.1 miles
Peers Clough Road
BCT · Lumb
- 0.3 miles
Forest Holme Close
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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
110 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 44 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.