Property market
The five-year median is £48,000 from 1 recorded sale in BB5 3JB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Hyndburn is £138,818 in June 2026, up 10.7% year on year.
BB5 3JB
St Andrew's · Hyndburn · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Accrington
- 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 3JB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB5
- Postcode sector
- BB5 3
- Latitude
- 53.743200
- Longitude
- -2.396571
- British National Grid easting
- 373,942
- British National Grid northing
- 427,496
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
- E00127271
- Lower layer super output area
- Hyndburn 007C · E01025076
- 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
Property
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 232 - 234, Union Road, Oswaldtwistle, Accrington, BB5 3JB | 16 December 2025 | £48,000 |
| 274, Union Road, Oswaldtwistle, Accrington, BB5 3JB | 14 December 2020 | £210,000 |
| 230a, Union Road, Oswaldtwistle, Accrington, BB5 3JB | 13 October 2017 | £40,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 63
- Primary
- 43
- Secondary
- 8
- 202 m
Oswaldtwistle St Andrew's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 412 m
Oswaldtwistle Moor End Primary School
Community school
- 441 m
Oswaldtwistle Hippings Methodist Voluntary Controlled Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,836
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,189
- Anti social behaviour 513
- Criminal damage and arson 225
- Vehicle crime 207
- Shoplifting 153
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- BB5 3 residents
- 7,849
1 female, 4 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BB5 3 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
- 85.7%
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
15
within 5 km
HIGHER HEYS SURGERY
OSWALDTWISTLE, ACCRINGTON, BB5 3BP
ODS code P81699
306 m
ACCRINGTON VICTORIA GP PRACTICE
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code Y02605
1.3 km
DR BELLO'S SURGERY
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81166
1.3 km
KING STREET MEDICAL CTR
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81726
1.3 km
RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTRE
ACORN PRIMARY HEALTH C C, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81182
1.3 km
OSWALD MEDICAL CENTRE
387-391 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RP
ODS code P81160
1.3 km
ARG HEALTHCARE
257-259 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 0AL
ODS code P81147
1.8 km
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ACCRINGTON PALS PHCC, 1 PARADISE STREET, ACCRINGTON, BB5 2EJ
ODS code P81036
2.2 km
THE WEAVERS PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, RISHTON, BLACKBURN, BB1 4LA
ODS code P81755
3.0 km
THE CLAYTON MEDICAL CTR.
WELLINGTON STREET, CLAYTON LE MOORS, ACCRINGTON, BB5 5HU
ODS code P81218
3.6 km
THE CORNERSTONE PRACTICE
SHADSWORTH HOUSE, SHADSWORTH ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 2HR
ODS code P81734
3.7 km
STEPPING STONE PRACTICE
LONGTON CLOSE, BLACKBURN, BB1 1XA
ODS code P81167
4.0 km
WILLIAM HOPWOOD STREET SURGERY
WILLIAM HOPWOOD STREET, AUDLEY, BLACKBURN, BB1 1LX
ODS code P81707
4.5 km
PRINGLE STREET SURGERY
216-218 PRINGLE STREET, BLACKBURN, BB1 1SB
ODS code P81724
4.7 km
LITTLE HARWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
PLANE TREE ROAD, BLACKBURN, BB1 6PH
ODS code P81005
5.0 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
- 0.1 miles
Community Centre
BCT · Oswaldtwistle
- 0.1 miles
Community Centre
BCT · Oswaldtwistle
- 0.1 miles
Library
BCT · Oswaldtwistle
- 0.1 miles
Library
BCT · Oswaldtwistle
- 0.1 miles
Watson Street
BCT · Oswaldtwistle
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hyndburn 007C, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,032 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 3
- 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
63 open schools are in scope, including 43 primary and 8 secondary schools. Oswaldtwistle St Andrew's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 202 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,836 published events cover 12 months, averaging 236.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,189 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.