Schools
66 open schools are in scope, including 36 primary and 6 secondary schools. Lomeshaye Junior School is the nearest published school at 319 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BB9 7YJ
Whitefield & Walverden · Pendle · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Pendle
- Constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe
- Postcode district
- BB9
- Postcode sector
- BB9 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BB9 7YJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 January 1995
- Postcode area
- BB
- Postcode district
- BB9
- Postcode sector
- BB9 7
- Latitude
- 53.835358
- Longitude
- -2.224855
- British National Grid easting
- 385,300
- British National Grid northing
- 437,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Pendle · E07000122
- Electoral ward
- Whitefield & Walverden · E05013211
- Parish or community
- E04005233
- Westminster constituency
- Pendle and Clitheroe · E14001422
- Output area
- E00128056
- Lower layer super output area
- Pendle 011D · E01025230
- Middle layer super output area
- Pendle 011 · E02005250
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 BB9
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 66
- Primary
- 36
- Secondary
- 6
- 319 m
Lomeshaye Junior School
Community school
- 370 m
Whitefield Infant School and Nursery
Community school
- 481 m
St John Southworth RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,746
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,527
- Anti social behaviour 721
- Criminal damage and arson 278
- Other theft 227
- Shoplifting 198
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BB9 7 residents
- 8,811
Age bands in BB9 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 27.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 16%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.9%
2,459 residents
1,449 residents
2,767 residents
1,671 residents
716 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
DR JEHANGIR (SH)
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81731
491 m
NELSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81170
491 m
PWE PENDLE VALLEY MILL
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81123
491 m
REEDYFORD HLTH CARE GROUP
YARNSPINNERS PRIMARY HCC, YARNSPINNERS WHARF, CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81032
491 m
WHITEFIELD HEALTHCARE
CARR ROAD, NELSON, BB9 7SR
ODS code P81736
491 m
PENDLE VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
47 ARTHUR STREET, BRIERFIELD, NELSON, BB9 5RZ
ODS code P81070
1.1 km
BARROWFORD SURGERY
2A-4 RIDGEWAY, BARROWFORD, NELSON, BB9 8QP
ODS code P81757
1.5 km
BRIERCLIFFE SURGERY
BRIERCLIFFE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, BRIERCLIFFE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 2EZ
ODS code P81053
2.9 km
COLNE ROAD SURGERY
34-36 COLNE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 1LS
ODS code P81035
3.9 km
THURSBY SURGERY
2 BROWHEAD ROAD, BURNLEY, BB10 3BF
ODS code P81095
3.9 km
PARKSIDE SURGERY
PRESTIGE PARK, COLNE ROAD, BURNLEY, BB11 1PS
ODS code P81047
4.6 km
THE RICHMOND HILL PRACTICE
COLNE HEALTH CENTRE, CRADDOCK ROAD, COLNE, BB8 0JZ
ODS code P81025
4.6 km
BURNLEY GROUP PRACTICE
ST PETERS CENTRE, 3RD FLOOR CHURCH STREET, BURNLEY, BB11 2DL
ODS code P81020
5.0 km
RIVERSIDE FAMILY PRACTICE
ST PETERS CENTRE, CHURCH STREET, BURNLEY, BB11 2DL
ODS code P81780
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Business Village
BCT · Lomeshaye
- 0.2 miles
Farrer Street
BCT · Lomeshaye
- 0.2 miles
Farrer Street
BCT · Lomeshaye
- 0.3 miles
Carr Road
BCT · Nelson
- 0.3 miles
Milton Street
BCT · Nelson
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Pendle 011D, 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
1,238 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
3,746 published events cover 12 months, averaging 312.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,527 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.