Property market | £144,253 for a semi-detached property | |
Airport access | Closest airport is Manchester (31.0 miles) | |
Broadband | 68.8mbps average broadband speeds (fast broadband for UK) | |
Ethnic diversity | White: 82.7% residents (vs 81.7% England & Wales) Other: 17.4% residents (vs 18.3% England & Wales) | |
Socio-economic status | Ranked 484 out of 573 in England & Wales for % of residents in higher managerial positions and 95 out of 573 for residents who are long-term unemployed (Hyndburn level) | |
Community | Median age is 39.8 | Happiness is Below Average for Lancashire, Average for UK | |
Crime | 6.0 burglaries per 1k people (Hyndburn) | |
Commute (approx) | - Manchester Piccadilly (74 mins) - Leeds (75 mins) | |
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£144,253 for a semi-detached property | |
Closest airport is Manchester (31.0 miles) | |
68.8mbps average broadband speeds (fast broadband for UK) | |
Median age is 39.8 | Happiness is Below Average for Lancashire, Average for UK | |
Ranked 484 out of 573 in England & Wales for % of residents in higher managerial positions and 95 out of 573 for residents who are long-term unemployed (Hyndburn level) | |
6.0 burglaries per 1k people (Hyndburn) | |
- Manchester Piccadilly (74 mins) - Leeds (75 mins) | |
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Back O'Bowley has a few stores nearby for groceries, including: Aldi Great Harwood, Morrisons Great Harwood, Tesco Great Harwood Superstore. There are many pubs and bars nearby, including: 1B Tap (Wet Sales Only), Baggy's Wine Bar, Bar 9, Commercial Hotel, Cross Axes, Leisure Hour Wmc, Plough Inn ( Wet Sales Only), The Tavern, Tipsy Cow,... (see map below for more bars and associated links). Regarding restaurants and other types of eateries, there are a few nearby, including: Clayton Street Chippy, Dog and Otter, Spoilt 4 Choice. We found one nearby cafe: Towngate Cafe. Back O'Bowley has a range of train stations and schools nearby, as shown in the map below.
The property market in Back O'Bowley has had a steep increase over the last few years but slowing growth. Based on data published on 15 November 2023, on average a detached house costs £227,211, which is down -3.7% on last year. A semi-detached house on average costs £144,253 (down -5.2% on last year) , a terraced house £102,949 (down -6.8% on last year) and a flat £70,992. Renting a two bedroom flat will cost you approximately £451 per month. Property prices in Back O'Bowley are slightly lower than the average property prices across Lancashire and are much lower compared to other locations with a similar density in England. When looking at the annual change in property prices in Back O'Bowley, prices have decreased, while prices increased across the Lancashire region.
Property data is based on Hyndburn level pricing data and is as at September 2023 (publicised 15 November 2023)
Detached and Semi-detached House Trend (£) to September 2023
County | Avg Detached Price | Annual Change | Avg Semi-Detached Price | Annual Change |
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Rutland | £557,774 | +11.3% | £341,529 | +11.7% |
Northumberland | £333,743 | +7.3% | £183,403 | +6.1% |
Lancashire | £326,887 | +4.3% | £195,848 | +3.4% |
Leicestershire | £432,076 | +3.9% | £262,308 | +3.0% |
Derbyshire | £340,545 | +3.7% | £209,276 | +2.9% |
Oxfordshire | £706,629 | +3.5% | £450,305 | +3.5% |
Merseyside | £340,051 | +3.4% | £214,398 | +2.4% |
Gloucestershire | £536,963 | +3.4% | £330,457 | +3.4% |
Nottinghamshire | £334,429 | +2.8% | £206,257 | +2.8% |
Wiltshire | £521,688 | +2.7% | £328,877 | +3.0% |
Greater Manchester | £396,806 | +2.7% | £254,125 | +2.3% |
West Yorkshire | £351,673 | +2.5% | £210,889 | +2.0% |
West Midlands | £407,684 | +2.2% | £245,250 | +2.4% |
East Riding of Yorkshire | £326,098 | +2.2% | £203,163 | +2.1% |
Staffordshire | £364,884 | +2.1% | £221,783 | +2.1% |
Herefordshire | £434,518 | +2.1% | £276,148 | +2.2% |
South Yorkshire | £284,409 | +2.0% | £182,869 | +1.9% |
West Sussex | £686,980 | +1.9% | £441,716 | +2.3% |
Kent | £619,795 | +1.8% | £386,201 | +1.4% |
Shropshire | £404,408 | +1.8% | £252,891 | +1.8% |
Warwickshire | £515,326 | +1.8% | £299,238 | +1.3% |
Devon | £503,963 | +1.6% | £337,624 | +2.3% |
North Yorkshire | £422,027 | +1.5% | £265,231 | +1.2% |
Norfolk | £406,137 | +1.4% | £267,820 | +1.2% |
North Northamptonshire | £426,370 | +1.3% | £254,947 | +1.2% |
Buckinghamshire | £853,940 | +1.2% | £460,891 | +1.2% |
West Northamptonshire | £478,844 | +0.9% | £279,006 | +0.7% |
Hampshire | £628,455 | +0.6% | £386,140 | +1.0% |
Lincolnshire | £307,354 | +0.6% | £205,466 | +1.4% |
Worcestershire | £455,558 | +0.6% | £276,201 | +0.9% |
Essex | £586,972 | +0.4% | £379,804 | 0.0% |
Somerset | £465,131 | +0.3% | £296,160 | +0.7% |
Suffolk | £454,636 | +0.2% | £283,920 | +0.6% |
East Sussex | £595,763 | +0.1% | £385,074 | +0.4% |
Cambridgeshire | £486,349 | 0.0% | £330,028 | +0.2% |
Surrey | £957,680 | -0.2% | £546,201 | +0.7% |
Isle of Wight | £435,441 | -0.4% | £298,787 | 0.0% |
Hertfordshire | £939,983 | -0.7% | £542,021 | -0.2% |
Cornwall | £453,159 | -1.1% | £300,170 | -0.6% |
Dorset | £528,863 | -1.3% | £348,080 | -0.8% |
Recent property transactions in the area
Listed below are some recent property purchases in the area, to give you an idea of the market. Click on a postcode if you would like to see data on that specific area of Back O'Bowley, or click here to browse the longer list of Back O'Bowley property transactions from 2023.
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Back O'Bowley has a healthy number of schools nearby to choose from. There are a mix of both primary and secondary schools nearby, including St Augustine's Roman Catholic High School, Billington (Maintained school) which is a secondary school based in Elker Lane, Clitheroe. Example schools in the area are listed below, with some information on their rating and access criteria.
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School | Type | Outstanding? |
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Great Harwood Primary School | Primary Community school - Mixed | No |
Langho and Billington St Leonards Church of England Primary School | Primary Voluntary aided school - Mixed | No |
Great Harwood St Bartholomew's Parish Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School | Primary Voluntary aided school - Mixed | No |
Great Harwood St John's Church of England Primary School | Primary Voluntary aided school - Mixed | No |
Whalley Church of England Primary School | Primary Voluntary aided school - Mixed | No |
St Hubert's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood | Primary Voluntary aided school - Mixed | No |
St Wulstan's Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood | Primary Voluntary aided school - Mixed | No |
St Augustine's Roman Catholic High School, Billington | Secondary school Voluntary aided school - Mixed | No |
School | Type | Latest Rating | Parent View Reviews (if available) | Ofsted Report (if available) | Address |
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Langho and Billington St Leonards Church of England Primary School Save school | Primary Voluntary aided school - Mixed | 1: Outstanding (2/29/2012) | Ofsted Report Link | Blackburn | |
Great Harwood Primary School Save school | Primary Community school - Mixed | 2: Good (6/11/2014) | Ofsted Report Link | Blackburn | |
St Hubert's Roman Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood Save school | Primary Voluntary aided school - Mixed | 2: Good (4/30/2015) | Ofsted Report Link | Blackburn | |
St Wulstan's Catholic Primary School, Great Harwood Save school | Primary Voluntary aided school - Mixed | 2: Good (7/3/2013) | Ofsted Report Link | Great Harwood | |
Great Harwood St John's Church of England Primary School Save school | Primary Voluntary aided school - Mixed | 2: Good (7/10/2013) | Ofsted Report Link | Blackburn | |
Whalley Church of England Primary School Save school | Primary Voluntary aided school - Mixed | 2: Good (11/10/2016) | Ofsted Report Link | Clitheroe | |
Great Harwood St Bartholomew's Parish Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Save school | Primary Voluntary aided school - Mixed | 3: Requires Improvement (12/5/2019) | Ofsted Report Link | Blackburn | |
St Augustine's Roman Catholic High School, Billington Save school | Secondary school Voluntary aided school - Mixed | Clitheroe |
Station | Distance from Back O'Bowley | Commute options |
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Langho A very quiet station station. Station footfall changed +20% from the previous year. | 2 miles |
- Manchester Piccadilly (1 change(s) - 84 mins - TransPennine Express) View details - Leeds (1 change(s) - 112 mins - Northern Trains) View details - York (1 change(s) - 146 mins - Northern Trains) View details |
Rishton A very quiet station station. Station footfall changed +11% from the previous year. | 3 miles |
- Leeds (1 change(s) - 96 mins - Northern Trains) View details - Manchester Piccadilly (1 change(s) - 124 mins - Northern Trains) View details - York (1 change(s) - 130 mins - Northern Trains) View details |
Church & Oswaldtwistle A very quiet station station. Station footfall changed +32% from the previous year. | 4 miles |
- Leeds (1 change(s) - 93 mins - Northern Trains) View details - York (1 change(s) - 127 mins - Northern Trains) View details - Manchester Piccadilly (1 change(s) - 128 mins - Northern Trains) View details |
Huncoat A very quiet station station. Station footfall changed +32% from the previous year. | 4 miles |
- Leeds (1 change(s) - 94 mins - Northern Trains) View details - York (1 change(s) - 128 mins - Northern Trains) View details - Manchester Piccadilly (1 change(s) - 135 mins - Northern Trains) View details |
Accrington A relatively quiet station. Station footfall changed +10% from the previous year. | 5 miles |
- Manchester Piccadilly (1 change(s) - 74 mins - TransPennine Express) View details - Leeds (77 mins - Northern Trains) View details - York (1 change(s) - 110 mins - Northern Trains) View details |
Hapton A very quiet station station. Station footfall changed +5% from the previous year. | 5 miles |
- Leeds (1 change(s) - 98 mins - Northern Trains) View details - York (1 change(s) - 132 mins - Northern Trains) View details |
The table below lists ethnicities living in the local authority (Hyndburn) as per the data published in December 2022. Source: ethnicity-facts-figures.service.gov.uk
Ethnicity | % of Hyndburn residents | Benchmark:% of England & Wales residents |
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White | 82.7% | 81.7% |
Asian | 15.1% | 9.3% |
Mixed | 1.3% | 2.9% |
Other | 0.7% | 2.1% |
Black | 0.3% | 4.0% |
The table below lists the types of occupations that residents have, at the Hyndburn consituency level. Source: commonslibrary.parliament.uk
Type of occupation | % of residents (over 16 years old) | Rank within England & Wales |
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Intermediate occupations | 11.4% | |
Small employers and own account workers | 9.9% | |
Higher managerial, administrative and professional occupations | 7.6% | 484 out of 573 |
Lower managerial, administrative and professional occupations | 17.3% | |
Lower supervisory and technical occupations | 6.6% | |
Semi-routine occupations | 14.0% | |
Routine occupations | 15.4% | |
Never worked / long-term unemployed | 11.4% | 95 out of 573 |
Full-time students | 6.4% |
Relative to the UK average, the average broadband download speed in Lancashire is average (67mbps). Back O'Bowley is consistent with this, with average download speeds of 68.8mbps. You can also view really detailed broadband information at the Hyndburn level, via data.parliament.uk, here.
Average speed | 68.8 mbps |
% households with superfast broadband access | 97.4% |
% households unable to access decent broadband | 0.5% |
Crime stats were found at the Hyndburn level:
Type | Hyndburn | UK |
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Total Crimes (per thousand people) | 106 | 93 |
Burglaries (per thousand people) | 6 | 5 |
Public Order Offences (per thousand people) | 9 | 10 |
Bicycle Thefts (per thousand people) | 0 | 1 |
Violence Against People (per thousand people) | 48 | 36 |
We use an API provided by Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs (DEFRA) to identify any live flood warnings to be aware of and we also provide insight into whether flooding could occur from rivers, sea and groundwater within 1km of Back O'Bowley.
There are no live flood warnings in the area, according to our interpretation of the DEFRA API.
The areas in the table below have been identified by the DEFRA API as areas where it is possible for flooding to occur from rivers, sea and in some locations, groundwater. Some of these areas will have measures in place to minimise the risk of flooding and they may be monitored by the Flood Warning Service.
Area | Cause | Description |
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Cumbria and Lancashire | River Calder | Rivers Calder, Brun, Don and Pendlewater, from Laneshaw Bridge to the river Ribble including Trawden, Burnley, Nelson, Colne, Accrington and Whalley |
Cumbria and Lancashire | River Ribble | Rivers Ribble, Hodder and other watercourses, from Settle to Samlesbury including Clitheroe, Gisburn, Sawley, Waddington and Ribchester |
Name | Property market | Crimes per 1,000 | Schools nearby | Socio Economic |
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Back O'Bowley, Lancashire Affordability: Very affordable Slowing property market | Semi-detached: £144,253 Detached: £227,211 | 106 | Primary: 7Secondary: 1 | 7.6% residents in higher managerial positions 11.4% residents long-term unemployed |
Clitheroe, Lancashire Affordability: Very affordable Low Crime Hot property market | Semi-detached: £273,093 Detached: £452,557 | 40 | Primary: 7Secondary: 3 | 14.5% residents in higher managerial positions 5.8% residents long-term unemployed |
Lancaster, Lancashire Affordability: Very affordable Outstanding schools Very fast broadband Hot property market Local M&S | Semi-detached: £222,692 Detached: £362,841 | 78 | Primary: 13Secondary: 7 | 9.4% residents in higher managerial positions 8.2% residents long-term unemployed |
Penwortham, Lancashire Affordability: Very affordable Outstanding schools Slowing property market | Semi-detached: £200,211 Detached: £327,899 | 89 | Primary: 16Secondary: 7 | 13.3% residents in higher managerial positions 6.6% residents long-term unemployed |
Name | Property | Crimes per 1,000 | Schools nearby |
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Back O'Bowley, Lancashire Affordability: Very affordable Slowing property market | Semi-detached: £144,253 Detached: £227,211 | 106 | Primary: 7Secondary: 1 |
Clitheroe, Lancashire Affordability: Very affordable Low Crime Hot property market | Semi-detached: £273,093 Detached: £452,557 | 40 | Primary: 7Secondary: 3 |
Lancaster, Lancashire Affordability: Very affordable Outstanding schools Very fast broadband Hot property market Local M&S | Semi-detached: £222,692 Detached: £362,841 | 78 | Primary: 13Secondary: 7 |
Penwortham, Lancashire Affordability: Very affordable Outstanding schools Slowing property market | Semi-detached: £200,211 Detached: £327,899 | 89 | Primary: 16Secondary: 7 |
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