Schools
66 open schools are in scope, including 43 primary and 9 secondary schools. Tottington High School is the nearest published school at 79 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BL8 3LG
Tottington · Bury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Tottington
- Local authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury North
- Postcode district
- BL8
- Postcode sector
- BL8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL8 3LG
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- 1 May 2001
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL8
- Postcode sector
- BL8 3
- Latitude
- 53.611569
- Longitude
- -2.338095
- British National Grid easting
- 377,729
- British National Grid northing
- 412,831
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bury · E08000002
- Electoral ward
- Tottington · E05014167
- Parish or community
- E43000156
- Westminster constituency
- Bury North · E14001144
- Output area
- E00025556
- Lower layer super output area
- Bury 003E · E01005051
- Middle layer super output area
- Bury 003 · E02001021
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
- 66
- Primary
- 43
- Secondary
- 9
- 79 m
Tottington High School
Academy converter
- 368 m
Tottington Primary School
Academy converter
- 916 m
Christ Church CofE Primary School
Academy converter
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
- BL8 3 residents
- 7,780
Age bands in BL8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.7%
1,331 residents
870 residents
1,850 residents
2,444 residents
1,800 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
15
within 5 km straight-line
TOWER FAMILY HEALTHCARE
16 MARKET STREET, TOTTINGTON, BURY, BL8 4AD
ODS code P83012
419 m
GARDEN CITY MEDICAL CENTRE
1A GARDEN CITY, RAMSBOTTOM, BURY, BL0 9TN
ODS code P83620
2.1 km
WOODBANK SURGERY
2 HUNSTANTON DRIVE, BURY, BL8 1EG
ODS code P83017
2.1 km
MILE LANE HEALTH CENTRE
80 MILE LANE, BURY, BL8 2JR
ODS code P83612
2.6 km
WALMERSLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
110 WALMERSLEY ROAD, BURY, BL9 6DX
ODS code P83611
3.5 km
PEEL GPS
TOWNSIDE PCC, KNOWSLEY PLACE, KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83021
3.5 km
RIBBLESDALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
TOWNSIDE PCC - KNOWSLEY PL, KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83015
3.5 km
TOWNSIDE SURGERY
TOWNSIDE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, KNOWSLEY PLACE, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83005
3.5 km
KNOWSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
9-11 KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0ST
ODS code P83024
3.6 km
ROCK HEALTHCARE LIMITED
22 DERBY WAY, BURY, BL9 0NJ
ODS code Y02755
3.7 km
HARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
HOUGH FOLD WAY, HARWOOD, BOLTON, BL2 3HQ
ODS code P82016
4.1 km
HUNTLEY MOUNT MEDICAL CENTRE
HUNTLEY MOUNT ROAD, BURY, BL9 6JA
ODS code P83621
4.1 km
RAMSBOTTOM MEDICAL PRACTICE
CARR STREET, RAMSBOTTOM, BURY, BL0 9DD
ODS code P83006
4.3 km
THE ALASTAIR ROSS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BREIGHTMENT HEALTH CENTRE, BREIGHTMET FOLD LANE, BREIGHTMET, BOLTON, BL2 6NT
ODS code P82018
4.5 km
THE DUNSTAN PARTNERSHIP
BREIGHTMET HEALTH CENTRE, BREIGHTMET FOLD LANE, BREIGHTMET, BOLTON, BL2 6NT
ODS code P82001
4.5 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Booth Street
BCT · Tottington
- 0.1 miles
Booth Street
BCT · Tottington
- 0.1 miles
Tottington High School
BCT · Tottington
- 0.1 miles
Wellbank Street
BCT · Tottington
- 0.1 miles
Wellbank Street
BCT · Tottington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bury 003E, 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
19,985 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
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.