Blackburn with Darwen

8°COvercast

• Today: 10° / 8° · 25% rain
• Tomorrow: 10° / 7° · Overcast

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 07:17Sunset 16:29

9h 12m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

23US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: ozone

Source: WAQI · Preston, United Kingdom

• 6.3 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
• 4.7% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

133 reported · August 2026▼ 25% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences54
• Anti-social behaviour31
• Criminal damage & arson12
• Public order11

Neighbourhood team: Darwen East · Lancashire

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

286 reported road collisions (2025)

90 killed or seriously injured · 390 casualties · 18.5 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

388 food businesses within 2 miles

• 275 rated 4–5 ★ (225 top)
• 39 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

• Nearest station: Darwen (2.0 km)
• 35 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

£160,727 average▼ 0.2% YoY

Across Blackburn with Darwen · to 2026-08

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£714 average monthly rent▲ 4.4% YoY

• 1 bed £535
• 2 bed £662
• 3 bed £782

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

4.7× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 4.7 times median annual pay (4.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

1,745 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

• Cheapest petrol: 167.9p · Asda (8 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 193.9p · Asda (2.9 km)

5 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

31 charging locations within ~8 km

• 11 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 350 kW
• Nearest: IONITY Blackburn (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports pitches10
• Golf courses1
• Playgrounds7

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

154,735 residents in Blackburn with Darwen · 1,129/km²

• Under 16: 23%
• 16–64: 63%
• 65+: 14%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

• Moves in from elsewhere in the UK8,147
• Moves out to elsewhere in the UK7,799
• Net moves+348

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Among the most deprived areas in England

Ranked 11 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

37% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

£2,455 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (56% of 64,050)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

90 schools · 29,988 pupils

57 primary · 12 secondary · 21 other

Ofsted: 26 of 28 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (93%)

78 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Blackburn with Darwen

151 CQC-registered services

• Care homes35
• GP practices30
• Dentists31
• Homecare agencies37
• Hospitals & hospices7

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Blackburn with Darwen

• Not in the Green Belt
• 16 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

97 applications decided

97.9% granted · 95 granted, 2 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Labour (minority)

• Lab 20
• Con 5
• Ref 9
• Oth 17

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools10
• GPs & clinics2
• Parks & greens6
• Restaurants & cafés5

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

6,555 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

£650 median full-time weekly pay

5.7% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£17,707 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

39% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 76,015 certificates

14.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Life expectancy: 81 yrs women · 76.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 54.4 women · 54 men

67% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.2
• Feeling worthwhile7.8
• Happiness yesterday7.4
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.1

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Rossendale and Darwen:

• Change surrogacy law to recognise intended parents from birth239 local signatures · 113,305 nationwide
• Launch a public inquiry into illegal migration in the UK192 local signatures · 78,478 nationwide
• End the mandatory fortification of white flour with folic acid immediately175 local signatures · 76,640 nationwide
• Protect legal right to support for children with SEND146 local signatures · 111,357 nationwide
• Support the Ceramics Industry and protect British manufacturing jobs and skills133 local signatures · 111,154 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

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  Darwen F.C. · 0.5 km

  Darwen Football Club is a football club from Darwen, Lancashire, England. The club was formed in 2009 as A.F.C. Darwen, a successor to the original Darwen club, which had been wound up. They currently play in the Nort…

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  Lower Darwen · 0.6 km

  Lower Darwen is a village in the unitary borough of Blackburn with Darwen, contiguous with the town of Darwen, in the ceremonial county of Lancashire, England. It is located between the towns of Blackburn and Darwen.…

• Darwen Vale High School · 0.8 km

  Darwen Vale High School is a coeducational secondary school located in Darwen in the English county of Lancashire. The school converted to academy status in 2014 and is part of the Aldridge Education multi-academy trust.

• Lower Darwen railway station · 0.8 km

  Lower Darwen railway station was a railway station that served the village of Lower Darwen, in Lancashire, England.

• ROF Blackburn · 1.0 km

  Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF, Blackburn was part of the Ministry of Defence organisations producing components for the manufacture of armaments and arms related equipment from the late 1930 until after WWII. Commonly k…

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  St Cuthbert's Church, Darwen · 1.2 km

  St Cuthbert's Church is an Anglican church in the English market town of Darwen, Lancashire. It is an active parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn and the archdeaconry of Blackburn. The church was built 1875–1878…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)