Property market
The five-year median is £210,000 from 3 recorded sales in BL6 4AP. 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.
BL6 4AP
Heaton, Lostock & Chew Moor · Bolton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bolton
- Local authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton West
- Postcode district
- BL6
- Postcode sector
- BL6 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL6 4AP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL6
- Postcode sector
- BL6 4
- Latitude
- 53.581471
- Longitude
- -2.519922
- British National Grid easting
- 365,675
- British National Grid northing
- 409,555
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bolton · E08000001
- Electoral ward
- Heaton, Lostock & Chew Moor · E05014826
- Parish or community
- E04000002
- Westminster constituency
- Bolton West · E14001112
- Output area
- E00024211
- 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 BL6
Property
31 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 16, Shaftesbury Avenue, Lostock, Bolton, BL6 4AP | 22 August 2024 | £210,000 |
| 18, Shaftesbury Avenue, Lostock, Bolton, BL6 4AP | 9 June 2023 | £166,700 |
| 20, Shaftesbury Avenue, Lostock, Bolton, BL6 4AP | 29 April 2022 | £227,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 50
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 5
- 565 m
Claypool Primary School
Community school
- 793 m
St Joseph's RC High School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.4 km
Chorley New Road Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Criminal damage and arson 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 35
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- BL6 4 residents
- 6,570
17 female, 18 male
Age bands in BL6 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.9%
1,103 residents
588 residents
1,550 residents
1,746 residents
1,399 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BL6 4 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
18
within 5 km
KILDONAN HOUSE
RAMSBOTTOM ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5NW
ODS code P82003
2.2 km
PIKE VIEW, DR MALHOTRA & PARTNERS
HORWICH HEALTH & WELLBEING HUB, VICTORIA ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5PY
ODS code P82006
2.4 km
STABLE FOLD SURGERY
119 CHURCH STREET, WESTHOUGHTON, BOLTON, BL5 3SF
ODS code P82005
3.2 km
HEATON MEDICAL CENTRE
2 LUCY STREET, HEATON, BOLTON, BL1 5PU
ODS code P82031
3.4 km
UNSWORTH GROUP PRACTICE
PETER HOUSE, CAPTAIN LEES ROAD, WESTHOUGHTON, BOLTON, BL5 3UB
ODS code P82015
3.5 km
SPRING HOUSE SURGERY
555 CHORLEY OLD ROAD, GREATER MANCHESTER, BOLTON, BL1 6AF
ODS code P82014
3.8 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
4.2 km
CORNERSTONE SURGERY
469 CHORLEY OLD ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 6AH
ODS code P82627
4.2 km
WYRESDALE ROAD SURGERY
46 WYRESDALE ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 4DN
ODS code P82634
4.5 km
DALEFIELD SURGERY
AVONDALE HEALTH CENTRE, AVONDALE STREET, BOLTON, BL1 4JP
ODS code P82010
4.6 km
ASPULL SURGERY
ASPULL HEALTH & WELLBEING CENTRE, HAIGH ROAD, ASPULL, WIGAN, WN2 1XH
ODS code P92015
4.6 km
ST HELENS ROAD PRACTICE
GARNET FOLD PRACTICE, 374-376 ST. HELENS ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 3RR
ODS code P82009
4.8 km
SHANTI MEDICAL CENTRE
160 ST. HELENS ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 3PH
ODS code P82609
5.0 km
AL FAL MEDICAL GROUP
DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82640
5.0 km
DR S NASEEF
DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82629
5.0 km
OLIVE FAMILY PRACTICE
PIKES LANE CENTRE, DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code Y03366
5.0 km
PIKES LANE 1
THE PIKES LANE CENTRE, DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82002
5.0 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Ox Hey Lane
BCT · Lostock
- 0.1 miles
Cambridge Road
BCT · Lostock
- 0.1 miles
Cambridge Road
BCT · Lostock
- 0.3 miles
De Havilland Way
BCT · Middlebrook
- 0.3 miles
Mansell Way
BCT · Middlebrook
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.
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
- 1
- 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
50 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 5 secondary schools. Claypool Primary School is the nearest published school at 565 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Criminal damage and arson with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.