Schools
82 open schools are in scope, including 57 primary and 9 secondary schools. Mill School - Bury is the nearest published school at 74 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BL8 2AU
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 2AU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 August 1997
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL8
- Postcode sector
- BL8 2
- Latitude
- 53.587985
- Longitude
- -2.314174
- British National Grid easting
- 379,300
- British National Grid northing
- 410,200
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
- 82
- Primary
- 57
- Secondary
- 9
- 74 m
Mill School - Bury
Other independent special school
- 93 m
Forestwood School
Other independent special school
- 522 m
St Gabriel's RC High School, a Voluntary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 10
- Other theft 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
25
within 5 km straight-line
KNOWSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
9-11 KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0ST
ODS code P83024
900 m
PEEL GPS
TOWNSIDE PCC, KNOWSLEY PLACE, KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83021
1.0 km
RIBBLESDALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
TOWNSIDE PCC - KNOWSLEY PL, KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83015
1.0 km
TOWNSIDE SURGERY
TOWNSIDE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, KNOWSLEY PLACE, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83005
1.0 km
MILE LANE HEALTH CENTRE
80 MILE LANE, BURY, BL8 2JR
ODS code P83612
1.4 km
ROCK HEALTHCARE LIMITED
22 DERBY WAY, BURY, BL9 0NJ
ODS code Y02755
1.9 km
WOODBANK SURGERY
2 HUNSTANTON DRIVE, BURY, BL8 1EG
ODS code P83017
1.9 km
WALMERSLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
110 WALMERSLEY ROAD, BURY, BL9 6DX
ODS code P83611
2.1 km
BLACKFORD HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
137 CROFT LANE, HOLLINS, BURY, BL9 8QA
ODS code P83009
2.5 km
MONARCH MEDICAL CENTRE
65 CROSS LANE, RADCLIFFE, MANCHESTER, M26 2QZ
ODS code P83010
2.7 km
HUNTLEY MOUNT MEDICAL CENTRE
HUNTLEY MOUNT ROAD, BURY, BL9 6JA
ODS code P83621
2.7 km
RADCLIFFE MEDICAL PRACTICE
69 CHURCH STREET WEST, RADCLIFFE, MANCHESTER, M26 2SP
ODS code P83007
3.2 km
RED BANK GROUP PRACTICE
RADCLIFFE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 69 CHURCH STREET WEST, RADCLIFFE, MANCHESTER, M26 2SP
ODS code P83603
3.2 km
TOWER FAMILY HEALTHCARE
16 MARKET STREET, TOTTINGTON, BURY, BL8 4AD
ODS code P83012
3.5 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
GREEN LANE, WHITEFIELD, MANCHESTER, M45 7FD
ODS code P83608
4.1 km
UNSWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
PARR LANE, UNSWORTH, BURY, BL9 8JR
ODS code P83011
4.1 km
THE UPLANDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BURY NEW ROAD, WHITEFIELD, MANCHESTER, M45 8GH
ODS code P83004
4.6 km
THE ALASTAIR ROSS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BREIGHTMENT HEALTH CENTRE, BREIGHTMET FOLD LANE, BREIGHTMET, BOLTON, BL2 6NT
ODS code P82018
4.7 km
THE DUNSTAN PARTNERSHIP
BREIGHTMET HEALTH CENTRE, BREIGHTMET FOLD LANE, BREIGHTMET, BOLTON, BL2 6NT
ODS code P82001
4.7 km
GARDEN CITY MEDICAL CENTRE
1A GARDEN CITY, RAMSBOTTOM, BURY, BL0 9TN
ODS code P83620
4.7 km
Showing 20 of 25 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
St Stephen's Church
BCT · Elton
- 0.2 miles
Ivy Road
BCT · Elton
- 0.2 miles
Ivy Road
BCT · Elton
- 0.2 miles
St Stephen's Church
BCT · Elton
- 0.3 miles
Powell Street
BCT · Daisyfield
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
12 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 10 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.