Edmonton Drive Blackburn

22 addresses across 1 postcode (BB2), about 90 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 2901028.

  • Sales: 27 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £234,750 across 2 sales.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Blackburn with Darwen cost £160,727 in August 2026 (-0.2% on a year); private rents averaged £715 a month.
  • Energy: 18 homes have an energy certificate (C: 4, D: 11, E: 3).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 36 times (59 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A6119, carries 10,804 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band E; Band D in Blackburn with Darwen costs £2,455 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Ramsgreave and Wilpshire, about 2.8 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Corporation Park, is about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 6.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 159 to 164 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 6 of its 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Limefield Surgery, about 1.6 km (1 mile) away.
  • People: About 410 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 91% of households owned their home and 40% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 25 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often violence and sexual offences.
  • Road safety: No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20252£234,750£217,500£252,000
20241£335,000£335,000£335,000
20201£262,500£262,500£262,500
20193£258,000£230,000£260,000
20181£165,000£165,000£165,000
20163£178,000£145,000£190,000
20141£165,000£165,000£165,000
20111£162,000£162,000£162,000
20061£156,000£156,000£156,000
20051£173,000£173,000£173,000
20032£100,500£100,000£101,000
20021£110,000£110,000£110,000
All 27 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
12 Apr 20191 BB2 7DYDetached£258,000
23 Nov 20011 BB2 7DYDetached£115,000
31 Jan 20242 BB2 7DYDetached£335,000
27 Oct 20052 BB2 7DYDetached£173,000
12 Apr 20193 BB2 7DYDetached£230,000
30 Sep 20113 BB2 7DYTerraced£162,000
29 Nov 20175 BB2 7DYDetached£205,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 May 20226 BB2 7DYDetached£206,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Oct 20186 BB2 7DYDetached£165,000
11 Aug 20066 BB2 7DYDetached£156,000
16 Jun 19956 BB2 7DYDetached£56,000
22 Dec 20147 BB2 7DYDetached£165,000
26 Mar 20258 BB2 7DYDetached£217,500
15 Aug 20168 BB2 7DYDetached£145,000
15 Dec 20169 BB2 7DYDetached£178,000
18 Aug 20039 BB2 7DYDetached£100,000
10 Jun 202210 BB2 7DYDetached£204,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
16 Dec 199610 BB2 7DYDetached£55,000
19 Jun 199711 BB2 7DYDetached£69,995
24 Jul 202012 BB2 7DYDetached£262,500
16 Jun 201614 BB2 7DYDetached£190,000
25 May 200015 BB2 7DYDetached£84,950
6 Jan 200317 BB2 7DYTerraced£101,000
28 May 202118 BB2 7DYDetached£220,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 May 202519 BB2 7DYDetached£252,000
12 Jul 201923 BB2 7DYDetached£260,000
25 Jan 200223 BB2 7DYDetached£110,000

House prices and rents in Blackburn with Darwen

A typical home in Blackburn with Darwen cost £160,727 in August 2026, 0.2% less than a year before. That is 25% more than five years earlier and 52% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£280,280
Semi-detached£178,974
Terraced£135,429
Flat or maisonette£87,504
Bought by a first-time buyer£145,946

Private renters in Blackburn with Darwen paid £715 a month on average in September 2026, 3.8% more than a year before. That is 38% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£535
Two bedrooms£663
Three bedrooms£783
Four or more bedrooms£1,113

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from November 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

18 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 99 m². Most common: House, detached (18). Built: 1976-1982 (9); 1983-1990 (8); 1967-1975 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (13); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (18 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 16,851 kWh of it on average in 2024, 41% more than the district's 11,941 kWh, and 2,780 kWh of electricity, 12% less than the district's 3,176 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

These are all the homes on the postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is BB2.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Blackburn with Darwen in 2026-27: Band D £2,455 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,637£1,910£2,182£2,455£3,001£3,547£4,092£4,911

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band E (36% of about 530 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

No wind turbine or waste plant within 5 km (3.1 miles), and no solar farm, battery site or other project of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles), of the street's postcodes, operating or planned.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 21 September 2026 to 24 September 2026: BT, New service connection, give and take, on the footway, carriageway (standard works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 36 times, for 59 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Trib of Arley Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Preston New Road United Utilities Trib of Arley Brook 36 59 800 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

No postcode centre here is in a coalfield: the Mining Remediation Authority records no coal mining risk here.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The postcode is in a 1 km square with radon potential up to 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of the square is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 22 addresses are between 159 m and 164 m above sea level (162 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
BB2 7DY100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsRamsgreave and Wilpshire 92,000 journeys in 2024–252.8 km (1.7 miles)
Blackburn 1.3 million journeys in 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Mill Hill (Lancs) 60,000 journeys in 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Bus stops3 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 18 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Columbia Way Beardwood160 m
Bus or coach stationBus Station Blackburn Town Centre2.6 km (1.6 miles)
Car parksBlackburn mall car park2.4 km (1.5 miles)
EV charging pointsRoam Charging Station3.3 km (2 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN48.6 km (30 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeriesLimefield Surgery Good Jun 20261.6 km (1 mile)
Pharmacies3 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lammack Pharmacy720 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest New Bank Road (Dental Surgery)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
HospitalThe Beardswood Hospital1 km (0.6 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Springfield Care Home Requires improvement Dec 20211.4 km (0.8 miles)
Police stationBlackburn Police2.8 km (1.8 miles)
Cash machinesEG on the move - West End, Preston New Road Cashzone1.6 km (1 mile)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenCorporation Park 22 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 410 m²580 m (0.4 miles)
Playing fieldHarrison Playing Fields 5.9 ha1 km (0.6 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.5 ha930 m (0.6 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Corporation Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-east. 3 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Corporation ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.4 km (0.8 miles) south-east
Roman signal station on Mellor MoorScheduled monument1.6 km (1 mile) north-west
Woodfold ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.6 km (1.6 miles) south-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Lodge WoodWood1.5 km (0.9 miles) west
Billinge HillHill1.8 km (1.1 miles) south
Billinge WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Ned Hole WoodWood1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Jeffery PondLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) west
Long DingleValley4.5 km (2.8 miles) north-west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)6.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.0205
Particles (PM10)9.14015

All three are within the UK legal limits; PM2.5 is above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 5950
Under 551622

6 of the street's 22 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Blackburn with Darwen: see them on the Blackburn with Darwen page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Lammack Primary SchoolPrimary4–11900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection 81% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 80% in 2024 and 80% in 2023)
Tauheedul Islam Girls' High School MuslimSecondary11–181.1 km (0.7 miles) Outstanding (Oct 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 68.7 (72.3 in 2025 and 70.8 in 2024); 88.7% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade B; 31% AAB or better; progress average
The Olive School, Blackburn MuslimPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Outstanding; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding 98% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 24% at the higher standard (2025; 95% in 2024 and 92% in 2023)
Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Primary School BlackburnPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Report card (Nov 2025): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
St Silas's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary5–111.4 km (0.9 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 59% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 35% in 2024 and 42% in 2023)
Queen Elizabeth's Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.5 km (1 mile) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 45% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024)
Queen Elizabeth's Grammar SchoolSecondary11–191.6 km (1 mile) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 44.3 (47.0 in 2025 and 46.7 in 2024); 34.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C; 12.7% AAB or better; progress average
Pleckgate High SchoolSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Outstanding (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 46.8 (49.2 in 2025 and 44.0 in 2024); 43% grade 5+ in English and maths
Mellor St Mary Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary4–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 20% at the higher standard (2025; 73% in 2024 and 75% in 2023)
Wensley Fold CofE Primary Academy Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.8 km (1.1 miles) Outstanding (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 83% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 75% in 2023)
St James' Church of England Primary School BlackburnPrimary2–111.9 km (1.2 miles) No published inspection 66% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 2% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 59% in 2023)
St Gabriel's Church of England Primary SchoolPrimary5–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 69% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 16% at the higher standard (2025; 81% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

5 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 1 km (0.6 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Fernbank Nursery Ltd BB1 8LH Full day care 50 Good (Sep 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Tudor House Day Nursery @ Preston New Rd BB2 7AA Full day care 63 Jan 2026: Expected standard in 3 areas, Needs attention in 3 1.2 km (0.7 miles)
School House Nursery BB2 6QQ Full day care 70 Good (Sep 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Palm Tree Community Nursery BB2 6JX Full day care 28 Good (Feb 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Dar Ul Madinah Uk Ltd BB2 6HD Full day care 50 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.4 km (0.9 miles)

Ofsted also registers 55 childminders and 1 home childcarers (nannies) in Blackburn with Darwen. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
GO LOCAL BB2 7DTRetailers - other210 mAwaiting inspection
AQSA's BB2 7DRManufacturers/packers300 mExempt
Larmenier Retirement Village BB2 7ALHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good15 Jan 2025

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

25 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Violence and sexual offences10
Anti-social behaviour7
Drugs2
Vehicle crime2
Criminal damage and arson2
Bicycle theft1
Other crime1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Ontario Close (8); On or near Edmonton Drive (7); On or near Ottawa Close (5); On or near Winnipeg Close (2); On or near Columbia Way (2).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

No collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025.

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A6119 between A677 and Whinney Lane, with 10,804 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 130 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A6119 A677 to Whinney Lane 10,804 estimated; counted 2023 2% +8% since 2015 130 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 412 residents in 120 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3540
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over12%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)91%61%
Owned outright53%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented2%17%
Private rented7%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work54%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)4%6%
Retired (of adults)17%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)5%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)24%32%
Travel to work by car or van71%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram0%4%
By any public transport, including bus0%8%
On foot or by bicycle1%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)40%34%
No qualifications15%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification4%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)90%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all2%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 8 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • BB2 7DY: 22 addresses of 24 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Ontario Close · Ottawa Close · Columbia Way · Stockwood Close · Woodburn Close · Beardwood · Winnipeg Close · Heartwood Close · Rowen Park · Charnwood Close · Calgary Avenue · The Spinney

All the streets in BB2 and across Blackburn with Darwen.

What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.