Property market
The five-year median is £1,225,000 from 2 recorded sales in BL5 3YU. 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 3YU
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 3YU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 April 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL5
- Postcode sector
- BL5 3
- Latitude
- 53.541817
- Longitude
- -2.506805
- British National Grid easting
- 366,512
- British National Grid northing
- 405,137
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
- E00024787
- Lower layer super output area
- Bolton 028B · E01004893
- Middle layer super output area
- Bolton 028 · E02001011
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Green Gables, Westhoughton, Bolton, BL5 3YU | 1 May 2025 | £1,200,000 |
| 3, Green Gables, Westhoughton, Bolton, BL5 3YU | 28 March 2025 | £1,250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 73
- Primary
- 52
- Secondary
- 8
- 780 m
Woodland Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 939 m
St Thomas CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.0 km
Westhoughton High School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
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+
- 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
17
within 5 km
UNSWORTH GROUP PRACTICE
PETER HOUSE, CAPTAIN LEES ROAD, WESTHOUGHTON, BOLTON, BL5 3UB
ODS code P82015
971 m
STABLE FOLD SURGERY
119 CHURCH STREET, WESTHOUGHTON, BOLTON, BL5 3SF
ODS code P82005
1.6 km
DR VASANTH
ATHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, NELSON STREET, ATHERTON, MANCHESTER, M46 0LE
ODS code P92635
1.6 km
MEADOWVIEW SURGERY
ORMEROD HOUSE, ATHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, NELSON ST, ATHERTON, MANCHESTER, M46 0LE
ODS code P92626
1.6 km
DR KK CHAN & PARTNERS
SEVEN BROOKS MEDICAL CENTRE, 21 CHURCH STREET, ATHERTON, MANCHESTER, M46 9DE
ODS code P92042
2.3 km
BEE FOLD MEDICAL CENTRE
25 BEE FOLD LANE, ATHERTON, MANCHESTER, M46 0BD
ODS code P92633
2.3 km
WESTLEIGH MEDICAL PRACTICE
4-12 WESTLEIGH LANE, LEIGH, WN7 5JE
ODS code P92029
3.7 km
POPLAR STREET SURGERY
TYLDESLEY HEALTH CENTRE, POPLAR STREET, TYLDESLEY, MANCHESTER, M29 8AX
ODS code Y02321
3.8 km
ST HELENS ROAD PRACTICE
GARNET FOLD PRACTICE, 374-376 ST. HELENS ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 3RR
ODS code P82009
3.8 km
THE SURGERY, TYLDESLEY
THE SURGERY, HIGH STREET, TYLDESLEY, MANCHESTER, M29 8AL
ODS code P92033
3.9 km
ELLIOTT STREET SURGERY
145 ELLIOTT STREET, TYLDESLEY, MANCHESTER, M29 8FL
ODS code P92028
4.0 km
DEANE CLINIC 1
HORSFIELD STREET, DEANE, BOLTON, BL3 4LU
ODS code P82660
4.0 km
ORIENT HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
216 WIGAN ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5QE
ODS code P82624
4.3 km
GRASMERE SURGERY
LEIGH HEALTH CENTRE, THE AVENUE, LEIGH, WN7 1HR
ODS code P92607
4.3 km
THE AVENUE SURGERY
LEIGH HEALTH CENTRE, THE AVENUE, LEIGH, WN7 1HR
ODS code P92615
4.3 km
SHANTI MEDICAL CENTRE
160 ST. HELENS ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 3PH
ODS code P82609
4.4 km
PENNYGATE MEDICAL CENTRE
109 LADIES LANE, HINDLEY, WIGAN, WN2 2QG
ODS code P92016
4.6 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
- 0.4 miles
Washacre
BCT · Daisy Hill
- 0.4 miles
Daisy Hill Rail Station
RLY · Daisy Hill
- 0.4 miles
Daisy Hill Rail Station
RSE · Daisy Hill
- 0.4 miles
Captain Lees Road
BCT · Chequerbent
- 0.4 miles
Captain Lees Road
BCT · Chequerbent
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bolton 028B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,773 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
73 open schools are in scope, including 52 primary and 8 secondary schools. Woodland Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 780 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.