Schools
49 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 6 secondary schools. The Alternative School is the nearest published school at 210 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB5 9SA
Spring Hill · Hyndburn · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Spring Hill
- Local authority
- Hyndburn
- Constituency
- Hyndburn
- Postcode district
- BB5
- Postcode sector
- BB5 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB5 9SA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2005
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB5
- Postcode sector
- BB5 9
- Latitude
- 53.750075
- Longitude
- -2.368764
- British National Grid easting
- 375,780
- British National Grid northing
- 428,251
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Hyndburn · E07000120
- Electoral ward
- Spring Hill · E05005221
- Parish or community
- E43000096
- Westminster constituency
- Hyndburn · E14001299
- Output area
- E00127300
- Lower layer super output area
- Hyndburn 006G · E01025084
- Middle layer super output area
- Hyndburn 006 · E02005217
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
- 49
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 6
- 210 m
The Alternative School
Other independent school
- 566 m
Accrington Woodnook Primary School
Community school
- 630 m
Lee Royd Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,533
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,194
- Anti social behaviour 944
- Criminal damage and arson 399
- Vehicle crime 392
- Public order 365
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
11
within 5 km
PEEL HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ACCRINGTON PALS PHCC, 1 PARADISE STREET, ACCRINGTON, BB5 2EJ
ODS code P81036
200 m
ARG HEALTHCARE
257-259 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 0AL
ODS code P81147
534 m
OSWALD MEDICAL CENTRE
387-391 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RP
ODS code P81160
1.0 km
ACCRINGTON VICTORIA GP PRACTICE
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code Y02605
1.1 km
DR BELLO'S SURGERY
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81166
1.1 km
KING STREET MEDICAL CTR
ACORN PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81726
1.1 km
RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTRE
ACORN PRIMARY HEALTH C C, 421 BLACKBURN ROAD, ACCRINGTON, BB5 1RT
ODS code P81182
1.1 km
HIGHER HEYS SURGERY
OSWALDTWISTLE, ACCRINGTON, BB5 3BP
ODS code P81699
2.0 km
THE CLAYTON MEDICAL CTR.
WELLINGTON STREET, CLAYTON LE MOORS, ACCRINGTON, BB5 5HU
ODS code P81218
2.9 km
THE WEAVERS PRACTICE
HIGH STREET, RISHTON, BLACKBURN, BB1 4LA
ODS code P81755
3.6 km
GREAT HARWOOD MEDICAL GROUP
GREAT HARWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, WATER STREET, GREAT HARWOOD, BLACKBURN, BB6 7QR
ODS code P81730
4.8 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Scaitcliffe House
BCT · Scaitcliffe
- 0.0 miles
Scaitcliffe House
BCT · Scaitcliffe
- 0.1 miles
Brown Street
BCT · Scaitcliffe
- 0.1 miles
Brown Street
BCT · Scaitcliffe
- 0.1 miles
Inspire
BCT · Accrington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Hyndburn 006G, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,044 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
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
- 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
Recorded crime
5,533 published events cover 12 months, averaging 461.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,194 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.