Schools
57 open schools are in scope, including 40 primary and 7 secondary schools. Oswaldtwistle School is the nearest published school at 104 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB5 3DG
St Andrew's · Hyndburn · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- St Andrew's
- Local authority
- Hyndburn
- Constituency
- Hyndburn
- Postcode district
- BB5
- Postcode sector
- BB5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB5 3DG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB5
- Postcode sector
- BB5 3
- Latitude
- 53.747748
- Longitude
- -2.391185
- British National Grid easting
- 374,300
- British National Grid northing
- 428,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Hyndburn · E07000120
- Electoral ward
- St Andrew's · E05005219
- Parish or community
- E43000096
- Westminster constituency
- Hyndburn · E14001299
- Output area
- E00127277
- Lower layer super output area
- Hyndburn 007B · E01025075
- Middle layer super output area
- Hyndburn 007 · E02005218
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 BB5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 57
- Primary
- 40
- Secondary
- 7
- 104 m
Oswaldtwistle School
Pupil referral unit
- 104 m
Oswaldtwistle St Paul's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 248 m
Rhyddings
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,832
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,576
- Anti social behaviour 683
- Criminal damage and arson 287
- Vehicle crime 261
- Shoplifting 246
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BB5 3 residents
- 7,849
Age bands in BB5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.3%
1,268 residents
813 residents
1,891 residents
2,231 residents
1,777 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
14
within 5 km straight-line
ACCRINGTON VICTORIA GP PRACTICE
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code Y02605
659 m
DR BELLO'S SURGERY
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81166
659 m
KING STREET MEDICAL CTR
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81726
659 m
RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTRE
ACORN PRIMARY HEALTH C C, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81182
659 m
OSWALD MEDICAL CENTRE
387-391 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RP
ODS code P81160
731 m
HIGHER HEYS SURGERY
OSWALDTWISTLE, ACCRINGTON, BB5 3BP
ODS code P81699
788 m
ARG HEALTHCARE
257-259 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 0AL
ODS code P81147
1.2 km
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ACCRINGTON PALS PHCC, 1 PARADISE STREET, ACCRINGTON, BB5 2EJ
ODS code P81036
1.7 km
THE WEAVERS PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, RISHTON, BLACKBURN, BB1 4LA
ODS code P81755
2.8 km
THE CLAYTON MEDICAL CTR.
WELLINGTON STREET, CLAYTON LE MOORS, ACCRINGTON, BB5 5HU
ODS code P81218
3.0 km
THE CORNERSTONE PRACTICE
SHADSWORTH HOUSE, SHADSWORTH ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 2HR
ODS code P81734
4.2 km
STEPPING STONE PRACTICE
LONGTON CLOSE, BLACKBURN, BB1 1XA
ODS code P81167
4.3 km
GREAT HARWOOD MEDICAL GROUP
GREAT HARWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, WATER STREET, GREAT HARWOOD, BLACKBURN, BB6 7QR
ODS code P81730
4.6 km
WILLIAM HOPWOOD STREET SURGERY
WILLIAM HOPWOOD STREET, AUDLEY, BLACKBURN, BB1 1LX
ODS code P81707
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
The Printers
BCT · Foxhill Bank
- 0.0 miles
The Printers
BCT · Oswaldtwistle
- 0.1 miles
Oswaldtwistle Mills
BCT · Oswaldtwistle
- 0.1 miles
Oswaldtwistle Mills
BCT · Oswaldtwistle
- 0.2 miles
Moscow Mill Street
BCT · Oswaldtwistle
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hyndburn 007B, 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
4,109 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
3,832 published events cover 12 months, averaging 319.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,576 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.