Schools
78 open schools are in scope, including 49 primary and 11 secondary schools. Lostock Primary School is the nearest published school at 601 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BL6 4NF
Heaton, Lostock & Chew Moor · Bolton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton West
- Postcode district
- BL6
- Postcode sector
- BL6 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL6 4NF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- 1 December 1996
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL6
- Postcode sector
- BL6 4
- Latitude
- 53.580182
- Longitude
- -2.495362
- British National Grid easting
- 367,300
- British National Grid northing
- 409,400
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
- E43000155
- Westminster constituency
- Bolton West · E14001112
- Output area
- E00024533
- Lower layer super output area
- Bolton 020D · E01004844
- Middle layer super output area
- Bolton 020 · E02001003
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 78
- Primary
- 49
- Secondary
- 11
- 601 m
Lostock Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Clevelands Prep School
Other independent school
- 1.3 km
Markland Hill Primary School
Community 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
- BL6 4 residents
- 6,570
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
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
31
within 5 km straight-line
HEATON MEDICAL CENTRE
2 LUCY STREET, HEATON, BOLTON, BL1 5PU
ODS code P82031
1.9 km
SPRING HOUSE SURGERY
555 CHORLEY OLD ROAD, GREATER MANCHESTER, BOLTON, BL1 6AF
ODS code P82014
2.3 km
DEANE CLINIC 1
HORSFIELD STREET, DEANE, BOLTON, BL3 4LU
ODS code P82660
2.5 km
ORIENT HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
216 WIGAN ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5QE
ODS code P82624
2.6 km
CORNERSTONE SURGERY
469 CHORLEY OLD ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 6AH
ODS code P82627
2.7 km
WYRESDALE ROAD SURGERY
46 WYRESDALE ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 4DN
ODS code P82634
2.9 km
DALEFIELD SURGERY
AVONDALE HEALTH CENTRE, AVONDALE STREET, BOLTON, BL1 4JP
ODS code P82010
3.0 km
AL FAL MEDICAL GROUP
DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82640
3.4 km
DR S NASEEF
DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82629
3.4 km
OLIVE FAMILY PRACTICE
PIKES LANE CENTRE, DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code Y03366
3.4 km
PIKES LANE 1
THE PIKES LANE CENTRE, DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5HP
ODS code P82002
3.4 km
ST HELENS ROAD PRACTICE
GARNET FOLD PRACTICE, 374-376 ST. HELENS ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 3RR
ODS code P82009
3.4 km
UNSWORTH GROUP PRACTICE
PETER HOUSE, CAPTAIN LEES ROAD, WESTHOUGHTON, BOLTON, BL5 3UB
ODS code P82015
3.4 km
SHANTI MEDICAL CENTRE
160 ST. HELENS ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 3PH
ODS code P82609
3.5 km
3D MEDICAL CENTRE
200 DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5DP
ODS code Y00186
3.5 km
STABLE FOLD SURGERY
119 CHURCH STREET, WESTHOUGHTON, BOLTON, BL5 3SF
ODS code P82005
3.6 km
DEANE MEDICAL CENTRE
155-157 DEANE ROAD, BOLTON, BL3 5AH
ODS code P82030
3.6 km
KILDONAN HOUSE
RAMSBOTTOM ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5NW
ODS code P82003
3.7 km
PIKE VIEW, DR MALHOTRA & PARTNERS
HORWICH HEALTH & WELLBEING HUB, VICTORIA ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5PY
ODS code P82006
3.7 km
SWAN LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
SWAN LANE, BOLTON, BL3 6TL
ODS code P82004
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 31 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Briksdal Way
BCT · Lostock
- 0.1 miles
Lostock Junction Lane
BCT · Lostock
- 0.1 miles
Lostock Junction Lane
BCT · Lostock
- 0.2 miles
Briksdal Way
BCT · Lostock
- 0.2 miles
Ravensdale Road
BCT · Lostock
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bolton 020D, 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
31,235 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
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.