Buy-to-let in Blackburn with Darwen

Blackburn with Darwen in figures

Gross rental yield

6.9%

On terraced houses across Blackburn with Darwen

Entry price, across its towns

£142,000 to £147,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+2.0%

UK House Price Index, across Blackburn with Darwen

Price move, 10 years

+70.2%

UK House Price Index, across Blackburn with Darwen

Population

163,801

Blackburn with Darwen, +6.0% growth

• Terraced houses across Blackburn with Darwen let for £720/mo against a median sale of £125,000 there: 6.9% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £714/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices across Blackburn with Darwen rose 2.0% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +70% over ten years (Blackburn with Darwen)
• £7,790 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £147,000 buy-to-let
• 2 regeneration awards (Blackburn with Darwen)
• 523 homes added across Blackburn with Darwen
• Band D £2,455 (Blackburn with Darwen)
• 1.3% long-term empty across Blackburn with Darwen
• +28% five-year forecast for North West as a whole (Savills), not this area

These figures are from Clarity's monthly ranking dataset, one method across every place so they compare. The Blackburn with Darwen report measures the area in more depth over its own twelve months, so its figures are the ones to quote.

What sits behind the figures

Prices across Blackburn with Darwen moved +70.2% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.

Employee jobs across Blackburn with Darwen moved +9.0% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

56% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Blackburn's postcode districts are below band C (47,065 certificates). Clarity measures areas rather than individual homes, so this is the share of the local stock likely to need energy-efficiency work before it meets a band C standard, not a survey of any one property.

A buy-to-let at £147,000 pays £7,790 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

The five-year forecast quoted above (Savills, North West) is a regional figure for North West as a whole, not a forecast for Blackburn with Darwen, and Clarity does not rank on it.

Towns in Blackburn with Darwen

Each yield is Blackburn with Darwen's, for the kind of home that town's prices point to, and the year's price move is measured across Blackburn with Darwen as a whole, so towns pointing to the same kind of home share a yield.

The Blackburn with Darwen report

The full report measures Blackburn with Darwen from its own sales: sold prices and rents for each type of home, the year's price move, crime per resident and worker, flood risk, planning designations, housing delivery and regeneration funding, with a worked buy-to-let deal on your own budget. This edition was built in October 2026.

Read the cover of the Blackburn with Darwen report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

The investment map ranks Blackburn with Darwen against every other place we cover, on your own budget and strategy. Questions about the figures or about us are answered here.