Accrington
Accrington is covered by postcode district BB5. It is in the Hyndburn council area, Lancashire.
Every postcode in Accrington, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 12
- At medium risk at worst: 8
- At low risk at worst: 106
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 680
Of the 806 postcodes in Accrington that ONS places, 12 have a home or business at high risk, 8 are at medium risk at worst, 106 are at low risk at worst and 680 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
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. 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 53.7520, longitude -2.3639. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.
The postcodes at high risk
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Accrington?
Homes sold for a typical £140,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, up 12% on the 12 months before. At 659 of the 771 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 226 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 126 of its 806 postcodes. It has 11 primary schools, 3 secondary schools and 1 all-through school at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Accrington, 400 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Accrington?
Homes in Accrington sold for a typical £140,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 323 sales, up 12% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.
- Detached £290,000 33 sales
- Semi-detached £192,000 97 sales
- Terraced £111,500 191 sales
- Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole BB5 district, Accrington's main postcode district: a typical £145,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Accrington: 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 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Accrington?
15 of the 806 postcodes now in use in Accrington came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 1 of the 433 homes sold in Accrington were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BB5 district, Under 1%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Accrington | Across the BB5 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 323 (0%) | 0 of 653 (0%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 1 of 433 (Under 1%) | 3 of 890 (Under 1%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Accrington?
Ofcom reports on 771 of the 806 postcodes in Accrington. At 659 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
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 checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Accrington at risk of flooding?
126 of the 806 postcodes in Accrington 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 226 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Accrington?
The open schools at the postcodes in Accrington (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- The Alternative School200 m 172 pupils, 260 places
- Accrington St John with St Augustine Church of England Primary School550 m 207 pupils, 210 places
- Accrington Woodnook Primary School550 m 220 pupils, 285 places
- Accrington Benjamin Hargreaves Church of England Primary School600 m 137 pupils, 161 places
- Accrington St Mary Magdalen's Church of England Primary School800 m 176 pupils, 210 places
- St Anne's and St Joseph's RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy800 m 130 pupils, 210 places
- Accrington Peel Park Primary School850 m 570 pupils, 630 places
- Accrington Hyndburn Park Primary School1.0 km 434 pupils, 530 places
Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Accrington?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Accrington is Accrington Rail Station, 400 m away in a straight line.
- Accrington Rail Station Railway station 400 mWalk
- Church & Oswaldtwistle Rail Station Railway station 1.8 kmCycle
- Huncoat Rail Station Railway station 2.4 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Accrington?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Accrington, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Peel House Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01254 282282 200 mWalk
- Arg Healthcare Care Quality Commission rating: Inadequate CQC report September 2026 · Phone 01254 233048 750 mWalk
- Oswald Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report February 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 01254 282501 1.3 kmCycle
- Accrington Victoria Gp Practice Phone 01254 735880 1.4 kmCycle
- Dr Bello's Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01254 457512 1.4 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Accrington safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 5,451 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Accrington over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 435 September 2025
- 529 October 2025
- 428 November 2025
- 455 December 2025
- 430 January 2026
- 436 February 2026
- 466 March 2026
- 422 April 2026
- 447 May 2026
- 438 June 2026
- 488 July 2026
- 477 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 135, other crime 109, possession of weapons 69, robbery 44, theft from the person 25, bicycle theft 15.
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Accrington?
- District, borough or city council
- Hyndburn
- County council
- Lancashire
- Parliamentary constituency
- Hyndburn
- Police force area
- Lancashire
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- MP
- Sarah Smith (Labour)
All 806 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.
Moving to Accrington
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Hyndburn about council tax Council tax, on hyndburnbc.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Accrington
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Accrington postcodes
806 postcodes in use in Accrington, by district:
That district is in the BB postcode area.
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Places near Accrington
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Accrington's £140,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Accrington
- What is the postcode for Accrington?
- Postcode district BB5, with 806 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Accrington in?
- Hyndburn, with Lancashire as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Accrington?
- Sarah Smith (Labour), for Hyndburn. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Accrington?
- A typical £140,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 323 sales, up 12% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Accrington?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include The Alternative School, Accrington St John with St Augustine Church of England Primary School and Accrington Woodnook Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include The Alternative School, Accrington Academy and Mount Carmel Roman Catholic High School, Hyndburn. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Accrington have a railway station?
- Yes: Accrington station, 400 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Accrington?
- Ofcom reports on 771 of the 806 postcodes in Accrington. At 659 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Accrington at risk of flooding?
- 126 of the 806 postcodes in Accrington 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 226 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Accrington?
- 15 of the 806 postcodes now in use in Accrington came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 1 of the 433 homes sold in Accrington were newly built (Under 1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BB5 district, Under 1%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- UK Parliament
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