Property market
The five-year median is £246,500 from 4 recorded sales in BL1 8BD. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Bolton is £202,770 in June 2026, up 4.9% year on year.
BL1 8BD
Halliwell · Bolton · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL1 8BD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL1
- Postcode sector
- BL1 8
- Latitude
- 53.596259
- Longitude
- -2.443436
- British National Grid easting
- 370,749
- British National Grid northing
- 411,166
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bolton · E08000001
- Electoral ward
- Halliwell · E05014825
- Parish or community
- E43000155
- Westminster constituency
- Bolton North East · E14001110
- Output area
- E00024636
- Lower layer super output area
- Bolton 011D · E01004865
- Middle layer super output area
- Bolton 011 · E02000994
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
24 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Avoncliff Close, Bolton, BL1 8BD | 30 July 2024 | £164,000 |
| 31, Avoncliff Close, Bolton, BL1 8BD | 26 April 2024 | £260,000 |
| 31, Avoncliff Close, Bolton, BL1 8BD | 13 May 2022 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 96
- Primary
- 59
- Secondary
- 12
- 458 m
St Thomas C of E Primary School, Halliwell
Voluntary aided school
- 568 m
Thornleigh Salesian College
Voluntary aided school
- 623 m
Eden Boys' School, Bolton
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Other crime 1
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 74
- Postcode households
- 30
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- BL1 8 residents
- 12,680
41 female, 33 male
Age bands in BL1 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.9%
2,786 residents
1,588 residents
3,797 residents
2,887 residents
1,634 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BL1 8 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
38
within 5 km
DALEFIELD SURGERY
AVONDALE HEALTH CENTRE, AVONDALE STREET, BOLTON, BL1 4JP
ODS code P82010
1.1 km
DR RIZWAN AND DR AWAN
LINDFIELD DRIVE, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82022
1.2 km
HALLIWELL SURGERY 2
LINDFIELD DRIVE, HALLIWELL, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82029
1.2 km
HALLIWELL SURGERY 3
LINDFIELD DRIVE, HALLIWELL, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82626
1.2 km
BOLTON COMMUNITY PRACTICE
WATERS MEETING HEALTH CENTRE, WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code Y03079
1.2 km
BURNSIDE SURGERY
WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code P82025
1.2 km
DR SIDDA'S SURGERY, WATERS MEETING HC
WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code P82625
1.2 km
CORNERSTONE SURGERY
469 CHORLEY OLD ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 6AH
ODS code P82627
1.3 km
SPRING HOUSE SURGERY
555 CHORLEY OLD ROAD, GREATER MANCHESTER, BOLTON, BL1 6AF
ODS code P82014
1.6 km
WYRESDALE ROAD SURGERY
46 WYRESDALE ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 4DN
ODS code P82634
1.7 km
MANDALAY MEDICAL CENTRE
933 BLACKBURN ROAD, SHARPLES, BOLTON, BL1 7LR
ODS code P82023
1.8 km
CROMPTON VIEW SURGERY
CROMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, 501 CROMPTON WAY, BOLTON, BL1 8UP
ODS code P82607
1.9 km
THE OAKS FAMILY PRACTICE
501 CROMPTON WAY, BOLTON, BL1 8UP
ODS code P82021
1.9 km
HEATON MEDICAL CENTRE
2 LUCY STREET, HEATON, BOLTON, BL1 5PU
ODS code P82031
1.9 km
BOLTON GENERAL PRACTICE
2-4 MOOR LANE, BOLTON, BL1 4TH
ODS code Y02319
2.1 km
OCTAGON MEDICAL CENTRE
LEVER CHAMBERS, 27 ASHBURNER STREET, BOLTON, BL1 1SQ
ODS code P82012
2.3 km
3D MEDICAL CENTRE
200 DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5DP
ODS code Y00186
2.6 km
DEANE MEDICAL CENTRE
155-157 DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5AH
ODS code P82030
2.6 km
AL FAL MEDICAL GROUP
DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82640
2.6 km
DR S NASEEF
DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82629
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 38 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Cotton Street
BCT · Halliwell
- 0.1 miles
Cotton Street
BCT · Halliwell
- 0.2 miles
St Paul's Parish Church
BCT · Halliwell
- 0.2 miles
Eskrick Street
BCT · Halliwell
- 0.2 miles
Temple Road
BCT · Halliwell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bolton 011D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,559 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
96 open schools are in scope, including 59 primary and 12 secondary schools. St Thomas C of E Primary School, Halliwell is the nearest published school at 458 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
6 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.