Property market
The five-year median is £250,000 from 3 recorded sales in BL3 2ET. 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.
BL3 2ET
Farnworth North · Bolton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bolton
- Ward
- Farnworth North
- Local authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton South and Walkden
- Postcode district
- BL3
- Postcode sector
- BL3 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL3 2ET
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL3
- Postcode sector
- BL3 2
- Latitude
- 53.557952
- Longitude
- -2.423124
- British National Grid easting
- 372,068
- British National Grid northing
- 406,896
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bolton · E08000001
- Electoral ward
- Farnworth North · E05014822
- Parish or community
- E43000155
- Westminster constituency
- Bolton South and Walkden · E14001111
- Output area
- E00181489
- Lower layer super output area
- Bolton 029A · E01004816
- Middle layer super output area
- Bolton 029 · E02001012
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 BL3
Property
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 126, Bishops Road, Bolton, BL3 2ET | 15 August 2025 | £250,000 |
| 128, Bishops Road, Bolton, BL3 2ET | 4 October 2024 | £214,000 |
| 122, Bishops Road, Bolton, BL3 2ET | 15 May 2024 | £260,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 120
- Primary
- 78
- Secondary
- 13
- 171 m
Lord's School
Other independent school
- 311 m
Mount St Joseph RC High School a Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 435 m
Ss Simon & Jude CofE Primary School, Bolton
Academy converter
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 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 115
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 5.2
- BL3 2 residents
- 12,376
56 female, 59 male
Age bands in BL3 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 28.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 14.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.5%
3,508 residents
1,758 residents
3,722 residents
2,225 residents
1,180 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BL3 2 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
49
within 5 km
BEEHIVE SURGERY
108 CRESCENT ROAD, GREAT LEVER, BOLTON, BL3 2JR
ODS code P82616
741 m
BOLTON MEDICAL CENTRE
21 RUPERT STREET, GREAT LEVER, BOLTON, BL3 6PY
ODS code Y02790
1.0 km
GREAT LEVER ONE
RUPERT STREET, GREAT LEVER, BOLTON, BL3 6RN
ODS code P82633
1.1 km
THE BOLTON FAMILY PRACTICE
GREAT LEVER HEALTH CENTRE, RUPERT STREET, GREAT LEVER, BOLTON, BL3 6RN
ODS code P82013
1.1 km
SWAN LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
SWAN LANE, BOLTON, BL3 6TL
ODS code P82004
1.6 km
SHANTI MEDICAL CENTRE
160 ST. HELENS ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 3PH
ODS code P82609
2.0 km
DEANE MEDICAL CENTRE
155-157 DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5AH
ODS code P82030
2.1 km
STONEHILL MEDICAL CENTRE
PIGGOTT STREET, FARNWORTH, BOLTON, BL4 9QZ
ODS code P82008
2.1 km
BRADFORD STREET SURGERY
65 BRADFORD STREET, BOLTON, BL2 1HT
ODS code P82033
2.1 km
FARNWORTH FAMILY PRACTICE
FREDERICK STREET, FARNWORTH, BOLTON, BL4 9AH
ODS code P82652
2.1 km
FIG TREE MEDICAL PRACTICE
FREDERICK STREET, FARNWORTH, BOLTON, BL4 9AH
ODS code P82037
2.1 km
3D MEDICAL CENTRE
200 DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5DP
ODS code Y00186
2.2 km
OCTAGON MEDICAL CENTRE
LEVER CHAMBERS, 27 ASHBURNER STREET, BOLTON, BL1 1SQ
ODS code P82012
2.2 km
AL FAL MEDICAL GROUP
DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82640
2.3 km
DR S NASEEF
DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82629
2.3 km
OLIVE FAMILY PRACTICE
PIKES LANE CENTRE, DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code Y03366
2.3 km
PIKES LANE 1
THE PIKES LANE CENTRE, DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82002
2.3 km
ST HELENS ROAD PRACTICE
GARNET FOLD PRACTICE, 374-376 ST. HELENS ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 3RR
ODS code P82009
2.3 km
BOLTON GENERAL PRACTICE
2-4 MOOR LANE, BOLTON, BL1 4TH
ODS code Y02319
2.3 km
CLEGGS LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE/129
129-131 CLEGGS LANE, LITTLE HULTON, MANCHESTER, M38 9RS
ODS code P87613
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 49 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Bishops Road
BCT · Great Lever
- 0.1 miles
Bishops Road
BCT · Great Lever
- 0.1 miles
Green Lane
BCT · Great Lever
- 0.1 miles
Green Lane
BCT · Great Lever
- 0.2 miles
Minerva Road
BCT · Great Lever
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bolton 029A, 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
10,407 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
- 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
Schools
120 open schools are in scope, including 78 primary and 13 secondary schools. Lord's School is the nearest published school at 171 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 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.