Schools
52 open schools are in scope, including 39 primary and 6 secondary schools. Accrington Academy is the nearest published school at 582 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB5 5EY
Altham · Hyndburn · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB5 5EY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1997
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB5
- Postcode sector
- BB5 5
- Latitude
- 53.766675
- Longitude
- -2.374674
- British National Grid easting
- 375,400
- British National Grid northing
- 430,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Hyndburn · E07000120
- Electoral ward
- Altham · E05005206
- Parish or community
- E04005177
- Westminster constituency
- Hyndburn · E14001299
- Output area
- E00127064
- Lower layer super output area
- Hyndburn 002C · E01025034
- Middle layer super output area
- Hyndburn 002 · E02005213
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
- 52
- Primary
- 39
- Secondary
- 6
- 582 m
Accrington Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 633 m
Accrington St Christopher's Church of England High School
Academy converter
- 825 m
Clayton-le-Moors Mount Pleasant Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,189
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,302
- Anti social behaviour 551
- Criminal damage and arson 244
- Vehicle crime 224
- Public order 207
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BB5 5 residents
- 11,643
Age bands in BB5 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.3%
2,109 residents
1,213 residents
2,753 residents
3,095 residents
2,195 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
THE CLAYTON MEDICAL CTR.
WELLINGTON STREET, CLAYTON LE MOORS, ACCRINGTON, BB5 5HU
ODS code P81218
1.1 km
ARG HEALTHCARE
257-259 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 0AL
ODS code P81147
1.5 km
OSWALD MEDICAL CENTRE
387-391 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RP
ODS code P81160
1.7 km
ACCRINGTON VICTORIA GP PRACTICE
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code Y02605
1.7 km
DR BELLO'S SURGERY
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81166
1.7 km
KING STREET MEDICAL CTR
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81726
1.7 km
RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTRE
ACORN PRIMARY HEALTH C C, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81182
1.7 km
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ACCRINGTON PALS PHCC, 1 PARADISE STREET, ACCRINGTON, BB5 2EJ
ODS code P81036
1.8 km
THE WEAVERS PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, RISHTON, BLACKBURN, BB1 4LA
ODS code P81755
2.6 km
GREAT HARWOOD MEDICAL GROUP
GREAT HARWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, WATER STREET, GREAT HARWOOD, BLACKBURN, BB6 7QR
ODS code P81730
3.1 km
HIGHER HEYS SURGERY
OSWALDTWISTLE, ACCRINGTON, BB5 3BP
ODS code P81699
3.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Whinney Hill Road
BCT · Enfield
- 0.1 miles
Whalley Road
BCT · Enfield
- 0.1 miles
Windsor Avenue
BCT · Enfield
- 0.1 miles
Windsor Avenue
BCT · Enfield
- 0.1 miles
Crown Inn
BCT · Milnshaw
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hyndburn 002C, 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
6,298 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 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
3,189 published events cover 12 months, averaging 265.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,302 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.