Schools
68 open schools are in scope, including 47 primary and 8 secondary schools. The Elton High School is the nearest published school at 462 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BL8 1TR
Elton · Bury · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL8 1TR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL8
- Postcode sector
- BL8 1
- Latitude
- 53.603196
- Longitude
- -2.323550
- British National Grid easting
- 378,687
- British National Grid northing
- 411,895
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bury · E08000002
- Electoral ward
- Elton · E05014155
- Parish or community
- E43000156
- Westminster constituency
- Bury North · E14001144
- Output area
- E00025132
- Lower layer super output area
- Bury 006A · E01004963
- Middle layer super output area
- Bury 006 · E02001024
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 BL8
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Sawyer Street, Bury, BL8 1TR | 14 January 2008 | £43,500 |
| 9, Sawyer Street, Bury, BL8 1TR | 18 November 2005 | £49,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 68
- Primary
- 47
- Secondary
- 8
- 462 m
The Elton High School
Community school
- 576 m
Elton Community Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 759 m
Guardian Angels Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 50
- Postcode households
- 34
- Residents per household
- 1.5
- BL8 1 residents
- 12,572
26 female, 24 male
Age bands in BL8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.2%
2,313 residents
1,302 residents
3,264 residents
3,426 residents
2,604 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BL8 1 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
- 94.4%
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
WOODBANK SURGERY
2 HUNSTANTON DRIVE, BURY, BL8 1EG
ODS code P83017
999 m
TOWER FAMILY HEALTHCARE
16 MARKET STREET, TOTTINGTON, BURY, BL8 4AD
ODS code P83012
1.8 km
MILE LANE HEALTH CENTRE
80 MILE LANE, BURY, BL8 2JR
ODS code P83612
1.9 km
PEEL GPS
TOWNSIDE PCC, KNOWSLEY PLACE, KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83021
2.2 km
RIBBLESDALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
TOWNSIDE PCC - KNOWSLEY PL, KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83015
2.2 km
TOWNSIDE SURGERY
TOWNSIDE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, KNOWSLEY PLACE, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83005
2.2 km
KNOWSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
9-11 KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0ST
ODS code P83024
2.2 km
WALMERSLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
110 WALMERSLEY ROAD, BURY, BL9 6DX
ODS code P83611
2.3 km
ROCK HEALTHCARE LIMITED
22 DERBY WAY, BURY, BL9 0NJ
ODS code Y02755
2.5 km
GARDEN CITY MEDICAL CENTRE
1A GARDEN CITY, RAMSBOTTOM, BURY, BL0 9TN
ODS code P83620
3.0 km
HUNTLEY MOUNT MEDICAL CENTRE
HUNTLEY MOUNT ROAD, BURY, BL9 6JA
ODS code P83621
3.0 km
BLACKFORD HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
137 CROFT LANE, HOLLINS, BURY, BL9 8QA
ODS code P83009
4.2 km
MONARCH MEDICAL CENTRE
65 CROSS LANE, RADCLIFFE, MANCHESTER, M26 2QZ
ODS code P83010
4.4 km
THE ALASTAIR ROSS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BREIGHTMENT HEALTH CENTRE, BREIGHTMET FOLD LANE, BREIGHTMET, BOLTON, BL2 6NT
ODS code P82018
4.6 km
THE DUNSTAN PARTNERSHIP
BREIGHTMET HEALTH CENTRE, BREIGHTMET FOLD LANE, BREIGHTMET, BOLTON, BL2 6NT
ODS code P82001
4.6 km
RADCLIFFE MEDICAL PRACTICE
69 CHURCH STREET WEST, RADCLIFFE, MANCHESTER, M26 2SP
ODS code P83007
4.8 km
RED BANK GROUP PRACTICE
RADCLIFFE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 69 CHURCH STREET WEST, RADCLIFFE, MANCHESTER, M26 2SP
ODS code P83603
4.8 km
HARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
HOUGH FOLD WAY, HARWOOD, BOLTON, BL2 3HQ
ODS code P82016
4.9 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
- 0.1 miles
Darlington Close
BCT · Woolfold
- 0.1 miles
Darlington Close
BCT · Woolfold
- 0.1 miles
Lomond Drive
BCT · Woolfold
- 0.2 miles
Lomond Drive
BCT · Woolfold
- 0.2 miles
Chiltern Drive
BCT · Woolfold
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bury 006A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,620 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
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
- 4
- Medium risk addresses
- 2
- Low risk addresses
- 6
- 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
Recorded crime
6 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.