Schools
74 open schools are in scope, including 51 primary and 9 secondary schools. Bury Grammar Schools is the nearest published school at 534 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BL8 2AF
Bury West · Bury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bury West
- Local authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury North
- Postcode district
- BL8
- Postcode sector
- BL8 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL8 2AF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- 1 April 2003
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL8
- Postcode sector
- BL8 2
- Latitude
- 53.593099
- Longitude
- -2.310873
- British National Grid easting
- 379,521
- British National Grid northing
- 410,768
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bury · E08000002
- Electoral ward
- Bury West · E05014154
- Parish or community
- E43000156
- Westminster constituency
- Bury North · E14001144
- Output area
- E00025068
- Lower layer super output area
- Bury 009B · E01004948
- Middle layer super output area
- Bury 009 · E02001027
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 74
- Primary
- 51
- Secondary
- 9
- 534 m
Bury Grammar Schools
Other independent school
- 538 m
St Gabriel's RC High School, a Voluntary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 580 m
Mill School - Bury
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Other theft 2
- Robbery 1
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BL8 2 residents
- 10,638
Age bands in BL8 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 26.1%
1,649 residents
1,022 residents
2,257 residents
2,750 residents
2,705 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
19
within 5 km straight-line
PEEL GPS
TOWNSIDE PCC, KNOWSLEY PLACE, KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83021
846 m
RIBBLESDALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
TOWNSIDE PCC - KNOWSLEY PL, KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83015
846 m
TOWNSIDE SURGERY
TOWNSIDE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, KNOWSLEY PLACE, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83005
846 m
KNOWSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
9-11 KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0ST
ODS code P83024
850 m
WOODBANK SURGERY
2 HUNSTANTON DRIVE, BURY, BL8 1EG
ODS code P83017
1.3 km
ROCK HEALTHCARE LIMITED
22 DERBY WAY, BURY, BL9 0NJ
ODS code Y02755
1.5 km
WALMERSLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
110 WALMERSLEY ROAD, BURY, BL9 6DX
ODS code P83611
1.6 km
MILE LANE HEALTH CENTRE
80 MILE LANE, BURY, BL8 2JR
ODS code P83612
1.7 km
HUNTLEY MOUNT MEDICAL CENTRE
HUNTLEY MOUNT ROAD, BURY, BL9 6JA
ODS code P83621
2.3 km
BLACKFORD HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
137 CROFT LANE, HOLLINS, BURY, BL9 8QA
ODS code P83009
2.8 km
TOWER FAMILY HEALTHCARE
16 MARKET STREET, TOTTINGTON, BURY, BL8 4AD
ODS code P83012
3.1 km
MONARCH MEDICAL CENTRE
65 CROSS LANE, RADCLIFFE, MANCHESTER, M26 2QZ
ODS code P83010
3.2 km
RADCLIFFE MEDICAL PRACTICE
69 CHURCH STREET WEST, RADCLIFFE, MANCHESTER, M26 2SP
ODS code P83007
3.8 km
RED BANK GROUP PRACTICE
RADCLIFFE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 69 CHURCH STREET WEST, RADCLIFFE, MANCHESTER, M26 2SP
ODS code P83603
3.8 km
GARDEN CITY MEDICAL CENTRE
1A GARDEN CITY, RAMSBOTTOM, BURY, BL0 9TN
ODS code P83620
4.3 km
UNSWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
PARR LANE, UNSWORTH, BURY, BL9 8JR
ODS code P83011
4.4 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
GREEN LANE, WHITEFIELD, MANCHESTER, M45 7FD
ODS code P83608
4.6 km
HEADY HILL SURGERY
114 BURY NEW ROAD, HEYWOOD, OL10 4RG
ODS code P86602
4.6 km
HEYWOOD HEALTH
ARGYLE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, 141 ARGYLE STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 3SD
ODS code P86016
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Victoria Street
BCT · Elton
- 0.0 miles
Victoria Street
BCT · Elton
- 0.1 miles
Olive Street
BCT · Elton
- 0.1 miles
Arthur Street
BCT · Elton
- 0.1 miles
Bury Bridge
BCT · Elton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bury 009B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,743 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
13 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.