Rawtenstall
Rawtenstall is covered by postcode districts BB4 and OL13. It is in the Rossendale council area, Lancashire.
Every postcode in Rawtenstall, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 73
- At medium risk at worst: 23
- At low risk at worst: 91
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 594
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
Of the 781 postcodes in Rawtenstall that ONS places, 73 have a home or business at high risk, 23 are at medium risk at worst, 91 are at low risk at worst and 594 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 53.7053, longitude -2.2744. 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
73 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.
Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together
- 14 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. BB4 9AG, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 8 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. BB4 7QN, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 8 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. BB4 8AR, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. BB4 6AA, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 6 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. BB4 9HU, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
- 5 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. BB4 9JR, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.
What is it like to live in Rawtenstall?
Homes sold for a typical £194,975 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 674 of the 762 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 765 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 187 of its 781 postcodes. It has 9 primary schools and 4 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 4 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Accrington, 8.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
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 Rawtenstall?
Homes in Rawtenstall sold for a typical £194,975 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 292 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £205,000 from 399 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £392,000 63 sales
- Semi-detached £246,500 62 sales
- Terraced £165,000 157 sales
- Flat or maisonette £149,000 10 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole BB4 district, Rawtenstall's main postcode district: a typical £192,125.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Rawtenstall: 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 Rawtenstall?
25 of the 781 postcodes now in use in Rawtenstall came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 20 of the 399 homes sold in Rawtenstall were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BB4 district, 3%.
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 Rawtenstall | Across the BB4 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 1 of 292 (Under 1%) | 1 of 520 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 20 of 399 (5%) | 22 of 694 (3%) |
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 Rawtenstall?
Ofcom reports on 762 of the 781 postcodes in Rawtenstall. At 674 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).
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 Rawtenstall at risk of flooding?
187 of the 781 postcodes in Rawtenstall 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 765 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 Rawtenstall?
The open schools at the postcodes in Rawtenstall (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
- Rawtenstall St Paul's Church of England Primary School750 m 276 pupils, 295 places
- St Mary's CofE Primary School Rawtenstall1.0 km 182 pupils, 210 places
- St James-the-Less Roman Catholic Primary School, Rawtenstall1.1 km 211 pupils, 210 places
- St Peter's Roman Catholic Primary School, Newchurch1.4 km 152 pupils, 150 places
- Rawtenstall Newchurch Church of England Primary School1.5 km 112 pupils, 210 places
- St Anne's Church of England Primary School1.6 km 186 pupils, 210 places
- Rawtenstall Balladen Community Primary School1.8 km 109 pupils, 210 places
- Waterfoot Primary School2.3 km 296 pupils, 315 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Rawtenstall?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Rawtenstall is Accrington Rail Station, 8.2 km away in a straight line.
- Accrington Rail Station Railway station 8.2 kmDrive
- Huncoat Rail Station Railway station 8.8 kmDrive
- Hapton Rail Station Railway station 8.9 kmDrive
- Rawtenstall (East Lancashire Railway) Underground, metro or tram 1.3 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 Rawtenstall?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Rawtenstall. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Fairmore Medical Practice Phone 01706 253530 650 mWalk
- Ilex View Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report January 2024 · Phone 01706 253550 650 mWalk
- St James' Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 01706 213060 1.1 kmWalk
- Waterfoot Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01706 253300 2.2 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Rawtenstall safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 1,341 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Rawtenstall 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
- 89 September 2025
- 86 October 2025
- 105 November 2025
- 117 December 2025
- 112 January 2026
- 119 February 2026
- 115 March 2026
- 126 April 2026
- 139 May 2026
- 120 June 2026
- 104 July 2026
- 109 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: other crime 23, drugs 19, robbery 7, possession of weapons 7, bicycle theft 4, theft from the person 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 postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Rawtenstall?
- District, borough or city council
- Rossendale
- County council
- Lancashire
- Parliamentary constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen
- Police force area
- Lancashire
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
- MP
- Andy MacNae (Labour)
All 781 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 Rawtenstall
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week.
- Tell Rossendale about council tax Council tax, on rossendale.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Rawtenstall
- 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
Rawtenstall postcodes
781 postcodes in use in Rawtenstall, by district:
Those districts are in the BB postcode area and OL postcode area.
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Places near Rawtenstall
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Rawtenstall's £194,975. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Rawtenstall
- What is the postcode for Rawtenstall?
- Postcode districts BB4 and OL13, with 781 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- Which council is Rawtenstall in?
- Rossendale, with Lancashire as its county council. Source: ONS.
- Who is the MP for Rawtenstall?
- Andy MacNae (Labour), for Rossendale and Darwen. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
- How much are houses in Rawtenstall?
- A typical £194,975 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 292 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Rawtenstall?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Rawtenstall St Paul's Church of England Primary School, St Mary's CofE Primary School Rawtenstall and St James-the-Less Roman Catholic Primary School, Rawtenstall; secondary schools at its postcodes include Alder Grange School, Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School and All Saints' Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary Academy. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Rawtenstall have a railway station?
- The nearest is Accrington station, 8.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Rawtenstall?
- Ofcom reports on 762 of the 781 postcodes in Rawtenstall. At 674 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s). Source: Ofcom.
- Is Rawtenstall at risk of flooding?
- 187 of the 781 postcodes in Rawtenstall 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 765 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 Rawtenstall?
- 25 of the 781 postcodes now in use in Rawtenstall came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 20 of the 399 homes sold in Rawtenstall were newly built (5%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the BB4 district, 3%. 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
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.
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