Property market
The five-year median is £60,064 from 2 recorded sales in BL6 6JA. 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 6JA
Horwich South & Blackrod · Bolton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bolton
- Local authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton West
- Postcode district
- BL6
- Postcode sector
- BL6 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL6 6JA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL6
- Postcode sector
- BL6 6
- Latitude
- 53.583370
- Longitude
- -2.535715
- British National Grid easting
- 364,631
- British National Grid northing
- 409,774
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
- E04000002
- Westminster constituency
- Bolton West · E14001112
- Output area
- E00181437
- Lower layer super output area
- Bolton 007B · E01004781
- Middle layer super output area
- Bolton 007 · E02000990
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
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 19 - 21, Unit 6a, The Linkway, Horwich, Bolton, BL6 6JA | 11 February 2025 | £1,000 |
| 80, The Linkway, Horwich, Bolton, BL6 6JA | 2 May 2024 | £119,128 |
| 68, The Linkway, Horwich, Bolton, BL6 6JA | 29 October 2020 | £15,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 35
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 4
- 597 m
St Joseph's RC High School
Voluntary aided school
- 721 m
Chorley New Road Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 834 m
St Mary's RC Primary School
Voluntary aided 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 2
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BL6 6 residents
- 7,570
Age bands in BL6 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 21%
1,112 residents
692 residents
1,964 residents
2,147 residents
1,577 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+
- 98.4%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 1.6%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 1.6%
- Gigabit-capable
- 1.6%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 98.4%
- 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
KILDONAN HOUSE
RAMSBOTTOM ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5NW
ODS code P82003
1.4 km
PIKE VIEW, DR MALHOTRA & PARTNERS
HORWICH HEALTH & WELLBEING HUB, VICTORIA ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5PY
ODS code P82006
1.7 km
STABLE FOLD SURGERY
119 CHURCH STREET, WESTHOUGHTON, BOLTON, BL5 3SF
ODS code P82005
3.5 km
ASPULL SURGERY
ASPULL HEALTH & WELLBEING CENTRE, HAIGH ROAD, ASPULL, WIGAN, WN2 1XH
ODS code P92015
3.7 km
UNSWORTH GROUP PRACTICE
PETER HOUSE, CAPTAIN LEES ROAD, WESTHOUGHTON, BOLTON, BL5 3UB
ODS code P82015
4.1 km
HEATON MEDICAL CENTRE
2 LUCY STREET, HEATON, BOLTON, BL1 5PU
ODS code P82031
4.4 km
SPRING HOUSE SURGERY
555 CHORLEY OLD ROAD, GREATER MANCHESTER, BOLTON, BL1 6AF
ODS code P82014
4.8 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
Middlebrook Retail Park
BCT · Middlebrook
- 0.1 miles
Middlebrook Retail Park
BCT · Middlebrook
- 0.1 miles
Holmebrook Drive
BCT · Middlebrook
- 0.2 miles
Toughsheet Community Stadium
BCT · Middlebrook
- 0.2 miles
Toughsheet Community Stadium
BCT · Middlebrook
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bolton 007B, 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
23,326 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
- 8
- Medium risk addresses
- 12
- Low risk addresses
- 16
- 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
35 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Joseph's RC High School is the nearest published school at 597 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 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.