BB5 postcode district: Accrington and around, Lancashire

BB5 is a postcode district in Lancashire, with 1,552 postcodes in use in 8 sectors. It has postcodes in Accrington, Oswaldtwistle, Clayton-le-Moors and 2 more places. It is split between 2 councils: Hyndburn (1,522 postcodes) and Rossendale (30).

Postcodes in use: 1,552
Sectors: 8
Councils: 2 councils
Places: 5 places

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

Every postcode in BB5, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 120
Some can get gigabit: 155
Every home and business can get gigabit: 1,231
Ofcom gives no figure: 46
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 1,552 postcodes in BB5 that ONS places, 120 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 155 have some that can, 1,231 can all get it and 46 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 53.7543, longitude -2.3736. 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

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

BB5 0DA BB5 0EH BB5 0HW BB5 0LP BB5 0NY BB5 0PR BB5 1AJ BB5 1EF BB5 1HW BB5 1LX BB5 2BB BB5 2BR

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

8 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. BB5 2SY, is the one nearest the middle of them.
7 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. BB5 5YB, is the one nearest the middle of them.
5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. BB5 6TD, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in BB5?

Ofcom reports on 1,506 of the 1,552 postcodes in BB5. At 1,231 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit1,231 of 1,506

Postcodes where every home can get superfast1,401 of 1,506

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 1,506

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 BB5 at risk of flooding?

203 of the 1,552 postcodes in BB5 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 542 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 203 of 1,552 postcodes High: 110Medium: 432Low: 1,347Very low: 16

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 BB5?

Homes in BB5 sold for a typical £140,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 638 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £133,000 from 885 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£140,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£133,000 12 months to August 2025

Detached £270,000 78 sales
Semi-detached £181,200 181 sales
Terraced £115,000 370 sales
Flat or maisonette £92,000 9 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