BB2 postcode district: Blackburn and around

BB2 is a postcode district in England, with 1,414 postcodes in use in 8 sectors. It has postcodes in Blackburn and Darwen. It is split between 4 councils: Blackburn with Darwen (1,316 postcodes), Ribble Valley (86), South Ribble (9) and 1 other. 98 of its 1,414 postcodes are in Lancashire. ONS lists no county for the other 1,316.

Postcodes in use: 1,414
Sectors: 8
Councils: 4 councils
Places: 2 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in BB2, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 73
Some can get gigabit: 139
Every home and business can get gigabit: 1,108
Ofcom gives no figure: 94
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 1,414 postcodes in BB2 that ONS places, 73 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 139 have some that can, 1,108 can all get it and 94 have no Ofcom figure.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.7412, longitude -2.5021. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Postcodes without gigabit

73 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

BB2 1BD BB2 1UB BB2 2DU BB2 2DY BB2 2HL BB2 3AB BB2 3DZ BB2 4AB BB2 4ER BB2 4GW BB2 4GZ BB2 4NA

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. BB2 4GZ, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in BB2?

Ofcom reports on 1,320 of the 1,414 postcodes in BB2. At 1,108 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 4 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit1,108 of 1,320

Postcodes where every home can get superfast1,229 of 1,320

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband4 of 1,320

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is BB2 at risk of flooding?

125 of the 1,414 postcodes in BB2 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 617 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 125 of 1,414 postcodes High: 187Medium: 430Low: 855Very low: 129

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in BB2?

Homes in BB2 sold for a typical £178,475 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 622 sales, down 8.5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£178,475 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£195,000 12 months to August 2025

▼ down 8.5% on the 12 months before

Detached £310,000 157 sales
Semi-detached £200,000 181 sales
Terraced £120,000 254 sales
Flat or maisonette £111,000 30 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it