Schools
24 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 2 secondary schools. Beacon Primary School is the nearest published school at 465 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BL6 7JA
Horwich North · Bolton · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Horwich North
- Local authority
- Bolton
- Constituency
- Bolton West
- Postcode district
- BL6
- Postcode sector
- BL6 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL6 7JA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 July 1983
- Terminated
- 1 February 2008
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL6
- Postcode sector
- BL6 7
- Latitude
- 53.598148
- Longitude
- -2.547189
- British National Grid easting
- 363,884
- British National Grid northing
- 411,424
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bolton · E08000001
- Electoral ward
- Horwich North · E05014827
- Parish or community
- E04000002
- Westminster constituency
- Bolton West · E14001112
- Output area
- E00024748
- Lower layer super output area
- Bolton 004E · E01004890
- Middle layer super output area
- Bolton 004 · E02000987
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
- 24
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 2
- 465 m
Beacon Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 505 m
Horwich Parish CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 609 m
Lever Park School
Academy special sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 52
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 14
- Criminal damage and arson 7
- Possession of weapons 6
- Anti social behaviour 5
- Drugs 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BL6 7 residents
- 6,520
Age bands in BL6 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.5%
943 residents
694 residents
1,564 residents
1,842 residents
1,301 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
PIKE VIEW, DR MALHOTRA & PARTNERS
HORWICH HEALTH & WELLBEING HUB, VICTORIA ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5PY
ODS code P82006
324 m
KILDONAN HOUSE
RAMSBOTTOM ROAD, HORWICH, BOLTON, BL6 5NW
ODS code P82003
391 m
GRANVILLE HOUSE MED CTRE
GRANVILLE STREET, ADLINGTON, CHORLEY, PR6 9PY
ODS code P81154
3.9 km
ADLINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
22-24 BABYLON LANE, ANDERTON, CHORLEY, PR6 9NW
ODS code P81740
4.0 km
ASPULL SURGERY
ASPULL HEALTH & WELLBEING CENTRE, HAIGH ROAD, ASPULL, WIGAN, WN2 1XH
ODS code P92015
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Canada Street
BCT · Horwich
- 0.1 miles
Winter Hey Lane
BCT · Horwich
- 0.1 miles
Winter Hey Lane
BCT · Horwich
- 0.2 miles
Beaumont Road
BCT · Horwich
- 0.2 miles
Brownlow Road
BCT · Horwich
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bolton 004E, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
10,322 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
52 published events cover 12 months, averaging 4.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.