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BB5 crime rate and statistics
The BB5 postcode district, in the BB (Blackburn) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 8,940 street-crime records for BB5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 4.8% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 142.1 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 110.7 for Lancashire Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
8,940
Latest month (August 2026)
771
Year-on-year
+4.8%
Month-by-month totals
8260
748
Sep
795
Oct
693
Nov
729
Dec
711
Jan
681
Feb
826
Mar
710
Apr
737
May
756
Jun
783
Jul
771
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
748
October 2025
795
November 2025
693
December 2025
729
January 2026
711
February 2026
681
March 2026
826
April 2026
710
May 2026
737
June 2026
756
July 2026
783
August 2026
771
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
BB5
142.1
Lancashire Constabulary
110.7
8,940 records and 62,903 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of BB5 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences38.4%
3,429 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour21.0%
1,875 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson6.9%
618 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Vehicle crime6.6%
594 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Shoplifting6.1%
548 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Public order5.6%
502 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Other theft4.9%
441 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Burglary3.8%
338 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in BB5
Records by part of BB5: the south-east 2,176, the south-west 2,116, the south 1,100, the east 950, the north 842, the west 534, the north-west 532, the north-east 496, the centre 116.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 280 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of BB5's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and BB5's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of BB5 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore BB5 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for BB5 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
8,809
2022
8,763
2023
8,017
2024
8,615
2025
8,693
2026 (part year)
5,975
Is BB5 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BB5 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 745 records a month. The busiest month was March 2026, with 826.
Records here changed by +4.8% on the 12 months before, against -0.1% across the Lancashire Constabulary area, the main force here with 100.0% of BB5's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 38.4% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in BB5 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
Covers 100.0% of the 62,903 Census 2021 residents of BB5.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 59.7% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.
38%1
22%2
7%3
9%4
2%5
3%6
6%7
13%8
0%9
0%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.
Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.
About BB5 beyond crime
Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the
methodology page.
House prices
Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.
Year
All sales
2026 (part year)
£140,000 (419)
2025
£139,950 (874)
2024
£130,000 (791)
2023
£123,000 (749)
2022
£130,000 (990)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£270,000 (53)
£187,475 (124)
£117,500 (233)
£97,500 (9)
2025
£260,000 (100)
£180,000 (245)
£110,000 (516)
£75,000 (13)
2024
£250,000 (109)
£175,000 (208)
£96,500 (462)
£88,225 (12)
2023
£236,250 (86)
£168,000 (193)
£95,000 (459)
£90,000 (11)
2022
£243,000 (119)
£182,000 (263)
£100,000 (587)
£95,000 (21)
Schools and colleges
37 open establishments with a postcode in BB5, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.
Highest band
Postcodes
High
26
Medium
38
Low
147
Very low
0
Broadband
Share of the 1,524 postcodes in BB5 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
81.4%
92.1%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
93.5%
98.0%
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