Padiham

What is it like to live in Padiham?

Homes sold for a typical £115,000 in the 12 months to August 2026. At 245 of the 269 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 433 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 61 of its 269 postcodes. It has 4 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Hapton, 2.0 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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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 Padiham?

Homes in Padiham sold for a typical £115,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 137 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £106,000 from 168 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £353,000 5 sales
• Semi-detached £170,000 25 sales
• Terraced £105,000 101 sales
• Flat or maisonette £50,000 6 sales

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

Across the whole BB12 district, Padiham's main postcode district: a typical £170,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Padiham: 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 Padiham?

6 of the 269 postcodes now in use in Padiham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 168 homes sold in Padiham were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BB12 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

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 Padiham?

Ofcom reports on 269 of the 269 postcodes in Padiham. At 245 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.

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

Is Padiham at risk of flooding?

61 of the 269 postcodes in Padiham 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 433 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, 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 Padiham?

The open schools at the postcodes in Padiham. 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.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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 Padiham?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Padiham is Hapton Rail Station, 2.0 km away in a straight line.

• Hapton Rail Station Railway station 2.0 kmCycle
• Rose Grove Rail Station Railway station 2.4 kmCycle
• Burnley Barracks Rail Station Railway station 3.7 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: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Padiham?

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

• Padiham Group Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report August 2026 · Phone 01282 731333 200 mWalk

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

Is Padiham safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 1,666 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Padiham 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

By kind, over the 12 months

Also: shoplifting 43, drugs 21, possession of weapons 14, theft from the person 4, robbery 4, bicycle theft 3.

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.

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 Padiham?

District, borough or city council

Burnley

County council

Lancashire

Parliamentary constituency

Burnley

Police force area

Lancashire

Region

North West

Country

England

MP

Oliver Ryan (Labour (Co-op))

All 269 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, read 14 October 2026. See all our data sources