Schools
118 open schools are in scope, including 75 primary and 15 secondary schools. Bolton College is the nearest published school at 131 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BL3 5DQ
Queens Park & Central · Bolton · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Local authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton South and Walkden
- Postcode district
- BL3
- Postcode sector
- BL3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL3 5DQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 April 2014
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL3
- Postcode sector
- BL3 5
- Latitude
- 53.574601
- Longitude
- -2.439796
- British National Grid easting
- 370,975
- British National Grid northing
- 408,755
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bolton · E08000001
- Electoral ward
- Queens Park & Central · E05014832
- Parish or community
- E43000155
- Westminster constituency
- Bolton South and Walkden · E14001111
- Output area
- E00024537
- Lower layer super output area
- Bolton 021B · E01004849
- Middle layer super output area
- Bolton 021 · E02001004
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 118
- Primary
- 75
- Secondary
- 15
- 131 m
Bolton College
Further education
- 133 m
University Collegiate School
University technical college
- 264 m
University of Greater Manchester
Higher education institutions
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 11
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BL3 5 residents
- 8,772
Age bands in BL3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 26.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 15.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.3%
2,166 residents
1,320 residents
2,151 residents
1,818 residents
853 residents
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.
GP practices
45
within 5 km straight-line
DEANE MEDICAL CENTRE
155-157 DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5AH
ODS code P82030
255 m
3D MEDICAL CENTRE
200 DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5DP
ODS code Y00186
328 m
BOLTON GENERAL PRACTICE
2-4 MOOR LANE, BOLTON, BL1 4TH
ODS code Y02319
472 m
AL FAL MEDICAL GROUP
DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82640
481 m
DR S NASEEF
DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82629
481 m
OLIVE FAMILY PRACTICE
PIKES LANE CENTRE, DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code Y03366
481 m
PIKES LANE 1
THE PIKES LANE CENTRE, DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82002
481 m
OCTAGON MEDICAL CENTRE
LEVER CHAMBERS, 27 ASHBURNER STREET, BOLTON, BL1 1SQ
ODS code P82012
584 m
SWAN LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
SWAN LANE, BOLTON, BL3 6TL
ODS code P82004
868 m
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
WYRESDALE ROAD SURGERY
46 WYRESDALE ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 4DN
ODS code P82634
1.1 km
BOLTON MEDICAL CENTRE
21 RUPERT STREET, GREAT LEVER, BOLTON, BL3 6PY
ODS code Y02790
1.2 km
BRADFORD STREET SURGERY
65 BRADFORD STREET, BOLTON, BL2 1HT
ODS code P82033
1.5 km
SHANTI MEDICAL CENTRE
160 ST. HELENS ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 3PH
ODS code P82609
1.5 km
ORIENT HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
216 WIGAN ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5QE
ODS code P82624
1.5 km
DR RIZWAN AND DR AWAN
LINDFIELD DRIVE, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82022
1.6 km
HALLIWELL SURGERY 2
LINDFIELD DRIVE, HALLIWELL, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82029
1.6 km
HALLIWELL SURGERY 3
LINDFIELD DRIVE, HALLIWELL, BOLTON, BL1 3RG
ODS code P82626
1.6 km
DALEFIELD SURGERY
AVONDALE HEALTH CENTRE, AVONDALE STREET, BOLTON, BL1 4JP
ODS code P82010
1.7 km
Showing 20 of 45 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Salisbury Street
BCT · Gilnow
- 0.1 miles
Salisbury Street
BCT · Gilnow
- 0.1 miles
Bolton College
BCT · Gilnow
- 0.1 miles
Bolton College
BCT · Gilnow
- 0.2 miles
Queens Park
BCT · Gilnow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bolton 021B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,671 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
11 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.