Property market
The five-year median is £92,500 from 9 recorded sales in BL1 8QE. 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 8QE
Astley Bridge · Bolton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bolton
- Ward
- Astley Bridge
- Local authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton North East
- Postcode district
- BL1
- Postcode sector
- BL1 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL1 8QE
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL1
- Postcode sector
- BL1 8
- Latitude
- 53.599344
- Longitude
- -2.427995
- British National Grid easting
- 371,773
- British National Grid northing
- 411,503
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bolton · E08000001
- Electoral ward
- Astley Bridge · E05014818
- Parish or community
- E43000155
- Westminster constituency
- Bolton North East · E14001110
- Output area
- E00181476
- Lower layer super output area
- Bolton 005B · E01004767
- Middle layer super output area
- Bolton 005 · E02000988
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
52 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 35, Highgrove Close, Bolton, BL1 8QE | 26 August 2025 | £120,000 |
| 15, Highgrove Close, Bolton, BL1 8QE | 13 June 2025 | £97,000 |
| 13, Highgrove Close, Bolton, BL1 8QE | 31 January 2025 | £92,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 96
- Primary
- 59
- Secondary
- 12
- 216 m
St Paul's CofE Primary School, Astley Bridge
Academy converter
- 644 m
Madrasatul Imam Muhammad Zakariya
Other independent school
- 661 m
Holy Infant and St Anthony RC Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 36
- Postcode households
- 30
- Residents per household
- 1.2
- BL1 8 residents
- 12,680
24 female, 12 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 0.3% 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
- 17.6%
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
CROMPTON VIEW SURGERY
CROMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, 501 CROMPTON WAY, BOLTON, BL1 8UP
ODS code P82607
870 m
THE OAKS FAMILY PRACTICE
501 CROMPTON WAY, BOLTON, BL1 8UP
ODS code P82021
870 m
BOLTON COMMUNITY PRACTICE
WATERS MEETING HEALTH CENTRE, WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code Y03079
990 m
BURNSIDE SURGERY
WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code P82025
990 m
DR SIDDA'S SURGERY, WATERS MEETING HC
WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code P82625
990 m
DR RIZWAN AND DR AWAN
LINDFIELD DRIVE, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82022
1.3 km
HALLIWELL SURGERY 2
LINDFIELD DRIVE, HALLIWELL, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82029
1.3 km
HALLIWELL SURGERY 3
LINDFIELD DRIVE, HALLIWELL, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82626
1.3 km
MANDALAY MEDICAL CENTRE
933 BLACKBURN ROAD, SHARPLES, BOLTON, BL1 7LR
ODS code P82023
1.3 km
DALEFIELD SURGERY
AVONDALE HEALTH CENTRE, AVONDALE STREET, BOLTON, BL1 4JP
ODS code P82010
2.0 km
BROMLEY MEADOWS SURGERY
DARWEN ROAD, BROMLEY CROSS, BOLTON, BL7 9RG
ODS code P82643
2.0 km
EDGWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
EGERTON & DUNSCAR HEALTH CENTRE, DARWEN ROAD, BROMLEY CROSS, BOLTON, BL7 9RG
ODS code P82034
2.0 km
HARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
HOUGH FOLD WAY, HARWOOD, BOLTON, BL2 3HQ
ODS code P82016
2.0 km
CORNERSTONE SURGERY
469 CHORLEY OLD ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 6AH
ODS code P82627
2.3 km
BOLTON GENERAL PRACTICE
2-4 MOOR LANE, BOLTON, BL1 4TH
ODS code Y02319
2.5 km
OCTAGON MEDICAL CENTRE
LEVER CHAMBERS, 27 ASHBURNER STREET, BOLTON, BL1 1SQ
ODS code P82012
2.5 km
WYRESDALE ROAD SURGERY
46 WYRESDALE ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 4DN
ODS code P82634
2.5 km
BRADFORD STREET SURGERY
65 BRADFORD STREET, BOLTON, BL2 1HT
ODS code P82033
2.6 km
SPRING HOUSE SURGERY
555 CHORLEY OLD ROAD, GREATER MANCHESTER, BOLTON, BL1 6AF
ODS code P82014
2.7 km
TONGE FOLD HEALTH CENTRE
HILTON ST, TONGE FOLD, BOLTON, BL2 6DY
ODS code P82011
2.7 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
Sunnymead Avenue
BCT · Astley Bridge
- 0.1 miles
Sunnymead Avenue
BCT · Astley Bridge
- 0.1 miles
Watermillock Gardens
BCT · Astley Bridge
- 0.2 miles
Seymour Road
BCT · Astley Bridge
- 0.2 miles
Lidl
BCT · Astley Bridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bolton 005B, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,203 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
- 2
- 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 Paul's CofE Primary School, Astley Bridge is the nearest published school at 216 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 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.