Property market
The five-year median is £390,000 from 3 recorded sales in BL5 3YJ. 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.
BL5 3YJ
Westhoughton North & Hunger Hill · Bolton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bolton
- Local authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton West
- Postcode district
- BL5
- Postcode sector
- BL5 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL5 3YJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 February 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL5
- Postcode sector
- BL5 3
- Latitude
- 53.575343
- Longitude
- -2.559263
- British National Grid easting
- 363,065
- British National Grid northing
- 408,893
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bolton · E08000001
- Electoral ward
- Westhoughton North & Hunger Hill · E05014836
- Parish or community
- E04000003
- Westminster constituency
- Bolton West · E14001112
- Output area
- E00024226
- Lower layer super output area
- Bolton 014A · E01004775
- Middle layer super output area
- Bolton 014 · E02000997
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 BL5
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Ashcroft Fold, Westhoughton, Bolton, BL5 3YJ | 30 January 2026 | £370,000 |
| 5, Ashcroft Fold, Westhoughton, Bolton, BL5 3YJ | 9 December 2025 | £390,000 |
| 4, Ashcroft Fold, Westhoughton, Bolton, BL5 3YJ | 14 April 2025 | £399,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 40
- Primary
- 29
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.3 km
Blackrod Primary School
Community school
- 1.9 km
Aspull Church Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.0 km
Our Lady's RC Primary School Wigan
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BL5 3 residents
- 12,379
Age bands in BL5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.8%
2,039 residents
1,251 residents
3,193 residents
3,670 residents
2,660 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 80%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
7
within 5 km
ASPULL SURGERY
ASPULL HEALTH & WELLBEING CENTRE, HAIGH ROAD, ASPULL, WIGAN, WN2 1XH
ODS code P92015
1.9 km
KILDONAN HOUSE
RAMSBOTTOM ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5NW
ODS code P82003
2.4 km
PIKE VIEW, DR MALHOTRA & PARTNERS
HORWICH HEALTH & WELLBEING HUB, VICTORIA ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5PY
ODS code P82006
2.8 km
STABLE FOLD SURGERY
119 CHURCH STREET, WESTHOUGHTON, BOLTON, BL5 3SF
ODS code P82005
3.5 km
PENNYGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
109 LADIES LANE, HINDLEY, WIGAN, WN2 2QG
ODS code P92016
4.1 km
UNSWORTH GROUP PRACTICE
PETER HOUSE, CAPTAIN LEES ROAD, WESTHOUGHTON, BOLTON, BL5 3UB
ODS code P82015
4.4 km
LONGSHOOT MEDICAL PRACTICE
LONGSHOOT HEALTH CENTRE, SCHOLES, WIGAN, WN1 3NH
ODS code P92026
4.9 km
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
- 0.0 miles
Hilton House
BCT · Scot Lane End
- 0.1 miles
Hilton House
BCT · Scot Lane End
- 0.3 miles
Irlams Farm
BCT · Cooper Turning
- 0.3 miles
Irlams Farm
BCT · Cooper Turning
- 0.3 miles
Scot Lane
BCT · Scot Lane End
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bolton 014A, 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
28,488 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 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
- 5 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
Schools
40 open schools are in scope, including 29 primary and 5 secondary schools. Blackrod Primary School is the nearest published school at 0.8 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 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.