Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 6 secondary schools. Eagley Infant School is the nearest published school at 819 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BL7 9QD
West Pennine · Blackburn with Darwen · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- West Pennine
- Local authority
- Blackburn with Darwen
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen
- Postcode district
- BL7
- Postcode sector
- BL7 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL7 9QD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL7
- Postcode sector
- BL7 9
- Latitude
- 53.626187
- Longitude
- -2.416897
- British National Grid easting
- 372,525
- British National Grid northing
- 414,485
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Blackburn with Darwen · E06000008
- Electoral ward
- West Pennine · E05011524
- Parish or community
- E04000339
- Westminster constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen · E14001450
- Output area
- E00063650
- Lower layer super output area
- Blackburn with Darwen 018E · E01032485
- Middle layer super output area
- Blackburn with Darwen 018 · E02002632
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 BL7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 45
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 6
- 819 m
Eagley Infant School
Academy converter
- 983 m
Eagley Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
St John the Evangelist RC Primary School, Bromley Cross, Bolton
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 19
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Burglary 5
- Anti social behaviour 4
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Vehicle crime 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 1
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- BL7 9 residents
- 11,306
1 female, 0 male
Age bands in BL7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.2%
1,678 residents
1,020 residents
2,364 residents
3,197 residents
2,630 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BL7 9 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+
- 50%
- 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
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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
13
within 5 km straight-line
BROMLEY MEADOWS SURGERY
DARWEN ROAD, BROMLEY CROSS, BOLTON, BL7 9RG
ODS code P82643
1.1 km
EDGWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
EGERTON & DUNSCAR HEALTH CENTRE, DARWEN ROAD, BROMLEY CROSS, BOLTON, BL7 9RG
ODS code P82034
1.1 km
MANDALAY MEDICAL CENTRE
933 BLACKBURN ROAD, SHARPLES, BOLTON, BL1 7LR
ODS code P82023
2.0 km
HARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
HOUGH FOLD WAY, HARWOOD, BOLTON, BL2 3HQ
ODS code P82016
2.8 km
CROMPTON VIEW SURGERY
CROMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, 501 CROMPTON WAY, BOLTON, BL1 8UP
ODS code P82607
3.2 km
THE OAKS FAMILY PRACTICE
501 CROMPTON WAY, BOLTON, BL1 8UP
ODS code P82021
3.2 km
BOLTON COMMUNITY PRACTICE
WATERS MEETING HEALTH CENTRE, WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code Y03079
4.0 km
BURNSIDE SURGERY
WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code P82025
4.0 km
DR SIDDA'S SURGERY, WATERS MEETING HC
WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code P82625
4.0 km
DR RIZWAN AND DR AWAN
LINDFIELD DRIVE, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82022
4.3 km
HALLIWELL SURGERY 2
LINDFIELD DRIVE, HALLIWELL, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82029
4.3 km
HALLIWELL SURGERY 3
LINDFIELD DRIVE, HALLIWELL, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82626
4.3 km
DALEFIELD SURGERY
AVONDALE HEALTH CENTRE, AVONDALE STREET, BOLTON, BL1 4JP
ODS code P82010
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
King William
BCT · Chapeltown
- 0.3 miles
King William
BCT · Chapeltown
- 0.3 miles
Jumbles Country Park
BCT · Bromley Cross
- 0.3 miles
Jumbles Country Park
BCT · Bromley Cross
- 0.4 miles
Horrobin Lane
BCT · Chapeltown
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Blackburn with Darwen 018E, 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
21,463 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
- 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
19 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Burglary with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.