BB9 postcode district: Nelson and around, Lancashire

BB9 is a postcode district in Lancashire, with 1,397 postcodes in use in 7 sectors. It has postcodes in Nelson, Brierfield, Barrowford and 1 more place. It is split between 2 councils: Pendle (1,396 postcodes) and Ribble Valley (1).

Postcodes in use: 1,397
Sectors: 7
Councils: 2 councils
Places: 4 places

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

Every postcode in BB9, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 65
Some can get gigabit: 90
Every home and business can get gigabit: 1,136
Ofcom gives no figure: 106
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 1,397 postcodes in BB9 that ONS places, 65 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 90 have some that can, 1,136 can all get it and 106 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 53.8374, longitude -2.2157. 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

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

BB9 0LH BB9 5EH BB9 5FB BB9 5FH BB9 5JT BB9 5JX BB9 5QR BB9 5QS BB9 6AB BB9 6AD BB9 6BB BB9 6BD

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

7 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. BB9 6JU, is the one nearest the middle of them.
6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. BB9 6BD, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in BB9?

Ofcom reports on 1,291 of the 1,397 postcodes in BB9. At 1,136 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 5 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit1,136 of 1,291

Postcodes where every home can get superfast1,229 of 1,291

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband5 of 1,291

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 BB9 at risk of flooding?

180 of the 1,397 postcodes in BB9 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 820 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 180 of 1,397 postcodes High: 499Medium: 321Low: 723Very low: 38

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 BB9?

Homes in BB9 sold for a typical £135,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 504 sales, up 11.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£135,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£120,750 12 months to August 2025

▲ up 11.8% on the 12 months before

Detached £310,000 64 sales
Semi-detached £180,000 120 sales
Terraced £100,000 304 sales
Flat or maisonette £130,250 16 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