Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 2 secondary schools. Blackrod Primary School is the nearest published school at 740 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BL6 5TU
Horwich South & Blackrod · Bolton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton West
- Postcode district
- BL6
- Postcode sector
- BL6 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL6 5TU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 1997
- Terminated
- 1 September 2000
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL6
- Postcode sector
- BL6 5
- Latitude
- 53.589695
- Longitude
- -2.578563
- British National Grid easting
- 361,800
- British National Grid northing
- 410,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bolton · E08000001
- Electoral ward
- Horwich South & Blackrod · E05014828
- Parish or community
- E04000001
- Westminster constituency
- Bolton West · E14001112
- Output area
- E00024194
- Lower layer super output area
- Bolton 009D · E01004783
- Middle layer super output area
- Bolton 009 · E02000992
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
- 23
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 2
- 740 m
Blackrod Primary School
Community school
- 761 m
Blackrod Anglican/Methodist Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 1.6 km
St Catherine's CofE Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 19
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Drugs 4
- Vehicle crime 3
- Possession of weapons 3
- Criminal damage and arson 3
- Other crime 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BL6 5 residents
- 10,651
Age bands in BL6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.7%
1,810 residents
1,061 residents
2,746 residents
2,926 residents
2,233 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
5
within 5 km straight-line
KILDONAN HOUSE
RAMSBOTTOM ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5NW
ODS code P82003
2.3 km
ASPULL SURGERY
ASPULL HEALTH & WELLBEING CENTRE, HAIGH ROAD, ASPULL, WIGAN, WN2 1XH
ODS code P92015
2.3 km
PIKE VIEW, DR MALHOTRA & PARTNERS
HORWICH HEALTH & WELLBEING HUB, VICTORIA ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5PY
ODS code P82006
2.6 km
GRANVILLE HOUSE MED CTRE
GRANVILLE STREET, ADLINGTON, CHORLEY, PR6 9PY
ODS code P81154
3.1 km
ADLINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
22-24 BABYLON LANE, ANDERTON, CHORLEY, PR6 9NW
ODS code P81740
3.4 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Castlecroft Avenue
BCT · Blackrod
- 0.1 miles
Castlecroft Avenue
BCT · Blackrod
- 0.2 miles
Blackrod Church
BCT · Blackrod
- 0.2 miles
Vicarage Road
BCT · Blackrod
- 0.2 miles
Blackrod Church
BCT · Blackrod
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bolton 009D, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,946 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
19 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Drugs with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.