Property market
The five-year median is £2,737,500 from 2 recorded sales in BB5 5YE. 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 5YE
Altham · Hyndburn · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB5 5YE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB5
- Postcode sector
- BB5 5
- Latitude
- 53.791119
- Longitude
- -2.342758
- British National Grid easting
- 377,517
- British National Grid northing
- 432,809
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
- E00127062
- Lower layer super output area
- Hyndburn 002B · E01025033
- 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
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Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Simon Jersey Ltd, Sykeside Drive, Altham, Accrington, BB5 5YE | 16 March 2026 | £4,750,000 |
| F Dean & Sons Unit, 1, Sykeside Drive, Altham, Accrington, BB5 5YE | 22 July 2024 | £725,000 |
| Simon Jersey Ltd, Sykeside Drive, Altham, Accrington, BB5 5YE | 30 August 2019 | £2,450,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 39
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 4
- 637 m
Altham St James Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.7 km
Simonstone St Peter's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.8 km
St John the Baptist Roman Catholic Primary School, Padiham
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 65
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 20
- Burglary 12
- Anti social behaviour 10
- Criminal damage and arson 7
- Vehicle crime 5
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 90.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 90.9%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 81.8%
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
7
within 5 km
PADIHAM GROUP PRACTICE
PADIHAM MEDICAL CENTRE, 36 BURNLEY ROAD, PADIHAM, BURNLEY, BB12 8BP
ODS code P81130
2.2 km
THE CLAYTON MEDICAL CTR.
WELLINGTON STREET, CLAYTON LE MOORS, ACCRINGTON, BB5 5HU
ODS code P81218
3.3 km
GREAT HARWOOD MEDICAL GROUP
GREAT HARWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, WATER STREET, GREAT HARWOOD, BLACKBURN, BB6 7QR
ODS code P81730
4.0 km
ROSEGROVE SURGERY
225-227 GANNOW LANE, BURNLEY, BB12 6HY
ODS code P81197
4.2 km
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ACCRINGTON PALS PHCC, 1 PARADISE STREET, ACCRINGTON, BB5 2EJ
ODS code P81036
4.7 km
ARG HEALTHCARE
257-259 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 0AL
ODS code P81147
4.8 km
IGHTENHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
TABOR STREET, BURNLEY, BB12 0HL
ODS code P81165
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
Simon Jersey
BCT · Altham
- 0.1 miles
Shorten Brook Way
BCT · Altham
- 0.2 miles
Syke Side Drive
BCT · Altham
- 0.2 miles
Walton Arms
BCT · Altham
- 0.2 miles
Walton Arms
BCT · Altham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hyndburn 002B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,055 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
39 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 4 secondary schools. Altham St James Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 637 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
65 published events cover 12 months, averaging 5.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 20 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.