Schools
62 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 8 secondary schools. Chesham Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 921 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BL9 6UN
Moorside · Bury · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL9 6UN
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL9
- Postcode sector
- BL9 6
- Latitude
- 53.611759
- Longitude
- -2.274235
- British National Grid easting
- 381,954
- British National Grid northing
- 412,834
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bury · E08000002
- Electoral ward
- Moorside · E05014157
- Parish or community
- E43000156
- Westminster constituency
- Bury North · E14001144
- Output area
- E00025085
- Lower layer super output area
- Bury 007C · E01004956
- Middle layer super output area
- Bury 007 · E02001025
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 BL9
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Bradshaw Hill Farm, Castle Hill Road, Bury, BL9 6UN | 4 December 2020 | £2,300,000 |
| Bradshaw Hill Farm, Castle Hill Road, Bury, BL9 6UN | 8 June 2018 | £1,475,000 |
| Birchen Bower Farm, The Beeches 2, Castle Hill Road, Bury, BL9 6UN | 25 May 2018 | £385,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 62
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 8
- 921 m
Chesham Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 996 m
St Joseph and St Bede RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.2 km
Cambian Chesham House School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Public order 1
- Vehicle crime 1
- Anti social behaviour 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 14
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- BL9 6 residents
- 10,339
5 female, 9 male
Age bands in BL9 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.6%
1,981 residents
1,135 residents
2,711 residents
2,679 residents
1,695 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BL9 6 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+
- 71.4%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 71.4%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 71.4%
- Gigabit-capable
- 71.4%
- 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
HUNTLEY MOUNT MEDICAL CENTRE
HUNTLEY MOUNT ROAD, BURY, BL9 6JA
ODS code P83621
1.3 km
WALMERSLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
110 WALMERSLEY ROAD, BURY, BL9 6DX
ODS code P83611
1.7 km
ROCK HEALTHCARE LIMITED
22 DERBY WAY, BURY, BL9 0NJ
ODS code Y02755
2.0 km
WOODBANK SURGERY
2 HUNSTANTON DRIVE, BURY, BL8 1EG
ODS code P83017
2.4 km
PEEL GPS
TOWNSIDE PCC, KNOWSLEY PLACE, KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83021
2.9 km
RIBBLESDALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
TOWNSIDE PCC - KNOWSLEY PL, KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83015
2.9 km
TOWNSIDE SURGERY
TOWNSIDE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, KNOWSLEY PLACE, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83005
2.9 km
HEADY HILL SURGERY
114 BURY NEW ROAD, HEYWOOD, OL10 4RG
ODS code P86602
3.0 km
KNOWSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
9-11 KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0ST
ODS code P83024
3.1 km
HEYWOOD HEALTH
ARGYLE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, 141 ARGYLE STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 3SD
ODS code P86016
3.6 km
BIRTLE VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
GEORGE STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 4PW
ODS code Y02718
3.6 km
LONGFORD STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
LONGFORD STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 4NH
ODS code P86011
4.2 km
GARDEN CITY MEDICAL CENTRE
1A GARDEN CITY, RAMSBOTTOM, BURY, BL0 9TN
ODS code P83620
4.2 km
BLACKFORD HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
137 CROFT LANE, HOLLINS, BURY, BL9 8QA
ODS code P83009
4.2 km
TOWER FAMILY HEALTHCARE
16 MARKET STREET, TOTTINGTON, BURY, BL8 4AD
ODS code P83012
4.5 km
MILE LANE HEALTH CENTRE
80 MILE LANE, BURY, BL8 2JR
ODS code P83612
4.8 km
HOPWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
1-6 WALTON STREET, HOPWOOD, HEYWOOD, OL10 2BS
ODS code P86023
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
- 0.4 miles
Ferngrove
BCT · Fern Grove
- 0.5 miles
Ferngrove
BCT · Fern Grove
- 0.5 miles
Kingfisher Drive
BCT · Fern Grove
- 0.6 miles
Chesham Road
BCT · Chesham
- 0.7 miles
Thrush Drive
BCT · Fern Grove
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bury 007C, 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
4,851 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
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
- 1
- 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
Recorded crime
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Public order with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.