Schools
81 open schools are in scope, including 51 primary and 10 secondary schools. Clevelands Prep School is the nearest published school at 583 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BL1 5AY
Heaton, Lostock & Chew Moor · Bolton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bolton
- Local authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton West
- Postcode district
- BL1
- Postcode sector
- BL1 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL1 5AY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL1
- Postcode sector
- BL1 5
- Latitude
- 53.580579
- Longitude
- -2.486198
- British National Grid easting
- 367,907
- British National Grid northing
- 409,440
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bolton · E08000001
- Electoral ward
- Heaton, Lostock & Chew Moor · E05014826
- Parish or community
- E43000155
- Westminster constituency
- Bolton West · E14001112
- Output area
- E00024531
- Lower layer super output area
- Bolton 020C · E01004837
- Middle layer super output area
- Bolton 020 · E02001003
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BL1
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Elm Bank, Victoria Road, Bolton, BL1 5AY | 18 June 2010 | £550,000 |
| Elm Bank, Victoria Road, Bolton, BL1 5AY | 15 January 2008 | £650,000 |
| Westcombe, Victoria Road, Bolton, BL1 5AY | 13 October 2006 | £1,200,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 81
- Primary
- 51
- Secondary
- 10
- 583 m
Clevelands Prep School
Other independent school
- 802 m
Lostock Primary School
Academy converter
- 808 m
Markland Hill Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other crime 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- BL1 5 residents
- 11,896
1 female, 4 male
Age bands in BL1 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.9%
2,349 residents
1,272 residents
2,729 residents
3,372 residents
2,567 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BL1 5 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
34
within 5 km straight-line
HEATON MEDICAL CENTRE
2 LUCY STREET, HEATON, BOLTON, BL1 5PU
ODS code P82031
1.4 km
SPRING HOUSE SURGERY
555 CHORLEY OLD ROAD, GREATER MANCHESTER, BOLTON, BL1 6AF
ODS code P82014
1.7 km
DEANE CLINIC 1
HORSFIELD STREET, DEANE, BOLTON, BL3 4LU
ODS code P82660
2.0 km
CORNERSTONE SURGERY
469 CHORLEY OLD ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 6AH
ODS code P82627
2.1 km
ORIENT HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
216 WIGAN ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5QE
ODS code P82624
2.1 km
WYRESDALE ROAD SURGERY
46 WYRESDALE ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 4DN
ODS code P82634
2.3 km
DALEFIELD SURGERY
AVONDALE HEALTH CENTRE, AVONDALE STREET, BOLTON, BL1 4JP
ODS code P82010
2.4 km
AL FAL MEDICAL GROUP
DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82640
2.8 km
DR S NASEEF
DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82629
2.8 km
OLIVE FAMILY PRACTICE
PIKES LANE CENTRE, DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code Y03366
2.8 km
PIKES LANE 1
THE PIKES LANE CENTRE, DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82002
2.8 km
3D MEDICAL CENTRE
200 DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5DP
ODS code Y00186
2.9 km
SHANTI MEDICAL CENTRE
160 ST. HELENS ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 3PH
ODS code P82609
3.0 km
ST HELENS ROAD PRACTICE
GARNET FOLD PRACTICE, 374-376 ST. HELENS ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 3RR
ODS code P82009
3.0 km
DEANE MEDICAL CENTRE
155-157 DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5AH
ODS code P82030
3.1 km
SWAN LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
SWAN LANE, BOLTON, BL3 6TL
ODS code P82004
3.3 km
BOLTON GENERAL PRACTICE
2-4 MOOR LANE, BOLTON, BL1 4TH
ODS code Y02319
3.4 km
OCTAGON MEDICAL CENTRE
LEVER CHAMBERS, 27 ASHBURNER STREET, BOLTON, BL1 1SQ
ODS code P82012
3.6 km
UNSWORTH GROUP PRACTICE
PETER HOUSE, CAPTAIN LEES ROAD, WESTHOUGHTON, BOLTON, BL5 3UB
ODS code P82015
3.7 km
DR RIZWAN AND DR AWAN
LINDFIELD DRIVE, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82022
3.7 km
Showing 20 of 34 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Overton Lane
BCT · Lostock
- 0.1 miles
Overton Lane
BCT · Markland Hill
- 0.2 miles
Ravensdale Road
BCT · Lostock
- 0.2 miles
Ravens Wood
BCT · Markland Hill
- 0.2 miles
Ravens Wood
BCT · Markland Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bolton 020C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,832 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other crime with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.