Earby

Earby is covered by postcode district BB18. It is in the Pendle council area, Lancashire.

Typical price £163,500 Homes sold in Earby, last 12 months. ▲ 5.5% on the year before Gigabit broadband 112 of 125 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 44 of 128 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 233 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Earby, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Earby, by flood risk Of the 128 postcodes in Earby that ONS places, 23 have a home or business at high risk, 8 are at medium risk at worst, 13 are at low risk at worst and 84 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 26 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Earby. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. BB18 6BN: not on the flood risk listBB18 6BP: not on the flood risk listBB18 6FQ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6JL: not on the flood risk listBB18 6JS: not on the flood risk listBB18 6JZ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6LD: not on the flood risk listBB18 6LS: not on the flood risk listBB18 6LT: not on the flood risk listBB18 6LU: not on the flood risk listBB18 6LX: not on the flood risk listBB18 6LY: not on the flood risk listBB18 6LZ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NA: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NB: not on the flood risk listBB18 6ND: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NE: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NF: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NG: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NH: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NJ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NL: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NN: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NQ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NT: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NU: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NW: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NX: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NY: not on the flood risk listBB18 6PB: not on the flood risk listBB18 6PD: not on the flood risk listBB18 6PE: not on the flood risk listBB18 6PF: not on the flood risk listBB18 6PG: not on the flood risk listBB18 6PH: not on the flood risk listBB18 6PJ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6PL: not on the flood risk listBB18 6PQ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6QD: not on the flood risk listBB18 6QE: not on the flood risk listBB18 6QG: not on the flood risk listBB18 6QH: not on the flood risk listBB18 6QJ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6QQ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6QY: not on the flood risk listBB18 6QZ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RF: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RG: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RH: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RL: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RN: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RP: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RQ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RR: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RS: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RT: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RU: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RW: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RX: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RY: not on the flood risk listBB18 6RZ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6SA: not on the flood risk listBB18 6SB: not on the flood risk listBB18 6SD: not on the flood risk listBB18 6SG: not on the flood risk listBB18 6SJ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6SQ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6WA: not on the flood risk listBB18 6WD: not on the flood risk listBB18 6XE: not on the flood risk listBB18 6XF: not on the flood risk listBB18 6XG: not on the flood risk listBB18 6XH: not on the flood risk listBB18 6XL: not on the flood risk listBB18 6XN: not on the flood risk listBB18 6XP: not on the flood risk listBB18 6XR: not on the flood risk listBB18 6XS: not on the flood risk listBB18 6XU: not on the flood risk listBB18 6XW: not on the flood risk listBB18 6XZ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6YA: not on the flood risk listBB18 6YD: not on the flood risk listBB18 6YQ: not on the flood risk listBB18 6NP: low flood risk at worstBB18 6NS: low flood risk at worstBB18 6NZ: low flood risk at worstBB18 6QA: low flood risk at worstBB18 6QB: low flood risk at worstBB18 6QT: low flood risk at worstBB18 6RJ: low flood risk at worstBB18 6UQ: low flood risk at worstBB18 6UX: low flood risk at worstBB18 6UY: low flood risk at worstBB18 6XA: low flood risk at worstBB18 6XB: low flood risk at worstBB18 6PX: medium flood risk at worstBB18 6PY: medium flood risk at worstBB18 6PZ: medium flood risk at worstBB18 6QR: medium flood risk at worstBB18 6RB: medium flood risk at worstBB18 6RD: medium flood risk at worstBB18 6UN: medium flood risk at worstBB18 6UR: medium flood risk at worstBB18 6JT: high flood riskBB18 6JX: high flood riskBB18 6LP: high flood riskBB18 6NR: high flood riskBB18 6PA: high flood riskBB18 6PN: high flood riskBB18 6PT: high flood riskBB18 6QF: high flood riskBB18 6QN: high flood riskBB18 6QP: high flood riskBB18 6QS: high flood riskBB18 6QU: high flood riskBB18 6QW: high flood riskBB18 6QX: high flood riskBB18 6RA: high flood riskBB18 6RE: high flood riskBB18 6SF: high flood riskBB18 6TW: high flood riskBB18 6UL: high flood riskBB18 6US: high flood riskBB18 6WE: high flood riskBB18 6WF: high flood risk Earby 26 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to BB18 6WE, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk26 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Earby, by flood risk Of the 128 postcodes in Earby that ONS places, 23 have a home or business at high risk, 8 are at medium risk at worst, 13 are at low risk at worst and 84 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 26 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Earby. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Earby
  • A home or business at high risk: 23
  • At medium risk at worst: 8
  • At low risk at worst: 13
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 84
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 128 postcodes in Earby that ONS places, 23 have a home or business at high risk, 8 are at medium risk at worst, 13 are at low risk at worst and 84 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. 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 53.9151, longitude -2.1423. 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; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 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

The postcodes at high risk

23 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

BB18 6WE20 at high riskBB18 6QP14 at high riskBB18 6US10 at high riskBB18 6WF10 at high riskBB18 6TW9 at high riskBB18 6LP8 at high riskBB18 6SF8 at high riskBB18 6JX5 at high riskBB18 6UL5 at high riskBB18 6QS4 at high riskBB18 6QL4 at high riskBB18 6QX4 at high risk

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

  • 26 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. BB18 6WE, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.

What is it like to live in Earby?

Homes sold for a typical £163,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 5.5% on the 12 months before. At 112 of the 125 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 233 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 44 of its 128 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Colne, 7.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Earby?

Homes in Earby sold for a typical £163,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 55 sales, up 5.5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£163,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
£155,000 12 months to August 2025
▲ up 5.5% on the 12 months before
  • Detached 4 sales, too few to price
  • Semi-detached £230,000 11 sales
  • Terraced £150,000 39 sales
  • Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price

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

Across the whole BB18 district, Earby's main postcode district: a typical £159,950.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Earby: 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

Are new homes being built in Earby?

5 of the 128 postcodes now in use in Earby came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 89 homes sold in Earby were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BB18 district, 2%.

The newest postcodes

BB18 6BPsince December 2025BB18 6FQsince June 2025BB18 6BNsince April 2025BB18 6WDsince April 2020BB18 6TWsince February 2020

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

PeriodIn EarbyAcross the BB18 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 55 (0%) 1 of 237 (Under 1%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 89 (0%) 7 of 346 (2%)

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.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Earby?

Ofcom reports on 125 of the 128 postcodes in Earby. At 112 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit112 of 125
Postcodes where every home can get superfast123 of 125

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 Earby at risk of flooding?

44 of the 128 postcodes in Earby 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 233 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 44 of 128 postcodes High: 121Medium: 112Low: 217Very low: 3

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

Which schools are in Earby?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Earby. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Earby?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Earby is Colne Rail Station, 7.2 km away in a straight line.

  • Colne Rail Station Railway station 7.2 kmDrive
  • Gargrave Rail Station Railway station 7.4 kmDrive
  • Cononley Rail Station Railway station 8.5 kmDrive

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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Earby?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Earby. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Earby safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 296 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Earby 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

  1. 16 September 2025
  2. 16 October 2025
  3. 21 November 2025
  4. 30 December 2025
  5. 29 January 2026
  6. 24 February 2026
  7. 21 March 2026
  8. 22 April 2026
  9. 27 May 2026
  10. 28 June 2026
  11. 30 July 2026
  12. 32 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences138 reports
Anti-social behaviour77 reports
Criminal damage and arson24 reports
Other theft22 reports
Public order12 reports
Vehicle crime10 reports
Shoplifting3 reports
Drugs3 reports

Also: robbery 3, burglary 2, other crime 2.

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 postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Earby?

District, borough or city council
Pendle
County council
Lancashire
Parliamentary constituency
Pendle and Clitheroe
Police force area
Lancashire
Region
North West
Country
England
MP
Jonathan Hinder (Labour)

All 128 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

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

Moving to Earby

Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.

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Earby postcodes

128 postcodes in use in Earby, by district:

BB18 postcode district,128 postcodes

That district is in the BB postcode area.

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Places near Earby

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Earby's £163,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Barnoldswick2.9 km, £150,000Foulridge4.6 km, £232,500Colne6.6 km, £145,000Carleton-in-Craven7.2 km, £277,500Trawden7.7 km, £186,500Gargrave8.0 km, £319,000Barrowford8.8 km, £190,000Skipton9.5 km, £230,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Earby

What is it like to live in Earby?
Homes sold for a typical £163,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, up 5.5% on the 12 months before. At 112 of the 125 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 233 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 44 of its 128 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Colne, 7.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Earby?
Earby is covered by postcode district BB18, across 128 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Earby in?
Earby is in the Pendle council area, and Lancashire is its county council. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Earby?
Earby is in the Pendle and Clitheroe parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Jonathan Hinder (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Earby?
Homes in Earby sold for a typical £163,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 55 sales, up 5.5% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Earby?
In Earby, primary schools at its postcodes include Earby Springfield Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is West Craven High School, 2.4 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Earby have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Earby is Colne, 7.2 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Earby?
Ofcom reports on 125 of the 128 postcodes in Earby. At 112 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Earby at risk of flooding?
44 of the 128 postcodes in Earby 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 233 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Earby?
5 of the 128 postcodes now in use in Earby came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 89 homes sold in Earby were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BB18 district, 2%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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