Property market
The five-year median is £295,000 from 7 recorded sales in BL8 3QW. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Bury is £238,446 in June 2026, up 3.3% year on year.
BL8 3QW
Tottington · Bury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bury
- 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 3QW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL8
- Postcode sector
- BL8 3
- Latitude
- 53.619278
- Longitude
- -2.372262
- British National Grid easting
- 375,473
- British National Grid northing
- 413,700
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
- E00025539
- Lower layer super output area
- Bury 003C · E01005047
- 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
Property
33 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 78, Watling Street, Affetside, Bury, BL8 3QW | 19 December 2025 | £295,000 |
| 74, Watling Street, Affetside, Bury, BL8 3QW | 26 September 2025 | £300,000 |
| Five Acre Barn, 1, Watling Street, Affetside, Bury, BL8 3QW | 11 March 2024 | £770,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 59
- Primary
- 45
- Secondary
- 6
- 1.4 km
St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Hawkshaw
Voluntary aided school
- 1.6 km
Holly Mount Roman Catholic Primary School, Bury
Voluntary aided school
- 2.0 km
St Brendan's RC Primary School, Harwood, Bolton
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 61
- Postcode households
- 28
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- BL8 3 residents
- 7,780
32 female, 29 male
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
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BL8 3 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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
17
within 5 km
TOWER FAMILY HEALTHCARE
16 MARKET STREET, TOTTINGTON, BURY, BL8 4AD
ODS code P83012
2.1 km
HARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
HOUGH FOLD WAY, HARWOOD, BOLTON, BL2 3HQ
ODS code P82016
2.4 km
GARDEN CITY MEDICAL CENTRE
1A GARDEN CITY, RAMSBOTTOM, BURY, BL0 9TN
ODS code P83620
3.0 km
BROMLEY MEADOWS SURGERY
DARWEN ROAD, BROMLEY CROSS, BOLTON, BL7 9RG
ODS code P82643
3.6 km
EDGWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
EGERTON & DUNSCAR HEALTH CENTRE, DARWEN ROAD, BROMLEY CROSS, BOLTON, BL7 9RG
ODS code P82034
3.6 km
CROMPTON VIEW SURGERY
CROMPTON HEALTH CENTRE, 501 CROMPTON WAY, BOLTON, BL1 8UP
ODS code P82607
3.7 km
THE OAKS FAMILY PRACTICE
501 CROMPTON WAY, BOLTON, BL1 8UP
ODS code P82021
3.7 km
MANDALAY MEDICAL CENTRE
933 BLACKBURN ROAD, SHARPLES, BOLTON, BL1 7LR
ODS code P82023
4.1 km
THE ALASTAIR ROSS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BREIGHTMENT HEALTH CENTRE, BREIGHTMET FOLD LANE, BREIGHTMET, BOLTON, BL2 6NT
ODS code P82018
4.2 km
THE DUNSTAN PARTNERSHIP
BREIGHTMET HEALTH CENTRE, BREIGHTMET FOLD LANE, BREIGHTMET, BOLTON, BL2 6NT
ODS code P82001
4.2 km
MILE LANE HEALTH CENTRE
80 MILE LANE, BURY, BL8 2JR
ODS code P83612
4.3 km
WOODBANK SURGERY
2 HUNSTANTON DRIVE, BURY, BL8 1EG
ODS code P83017
4.5 km
RAMSBOTTOM MEDICAL PRACTICE
CARR STREET, RAMSBOTTOM, BURY, BL0 9DD
ODS code P83006
4.8 km
BOLTON COMMUNITY PRACTICE
WATERS MEETING HEALTH CENTRE, WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code Y03079
4.9 km
BURNSIDE SURGERY
WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code P82025
4.9 km
DR SIDDA'S SURGERY, WATERS MEETING HC
WATERS MEETING ROAD, BOLTON, BL1 8TT
ODS code P82625
4.9 km
TONGE FOLD HEALTH CENTRE
HILTON ST, TONGE FOLD, BOLTON, BL2 6DY
ODS code P82011
5.0 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
Trinity Presbyterian Church
BCT · Affetside
- 0.1 miles
Trinity Presbyterian Church
BCT · Affetside
- 0.4 miles
Yeomans Farm
BCT · Affetside
- 0.4 miles
Yeomans Farm
BCT · Affetside
- 0.4 miles
Tom Nook Farm
BCT · Tottington
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bury 003C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
24,870 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
Schools
59 open schools are in scope, including 45 primary and 6 secondary schools. St Mary's Church of England Primary School, Hawkshaw is the nearest published school at 0.9 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Anti social behaviour with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.