Property market
The five-year median is £162,500 from 8 recorded sales in BL9 7JF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Rochdale is £210,083 in June 2026, up 4.6% year on year.
BL9 7JF
West Heywood · Rochdale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bury
- Ward
- West Heywood
- Local authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North
- Postcode district
- BL9
- Postcode sector
- BL9 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL9 7JF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL9
- Postcode sector
- BL9 7
- Latitude
- 53.588564
- Longitude
- -2.256243
- British National Grid easting
- 383,135
- British National Grid northing
- 410,249
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Rochdale · E08000005
- Electoral ward
- West Heywood · E05014051
- Parish or community
- E43000159
- Westminster constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North · E14001286
- Output area
- E00027895
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochdale 019E · E01005514
- Middle layer super output area
- Rochdale 019 · E02001150
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
34 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 23, Birchfield Avenue, Bury, BL9 7JF | 8 May 2026 | £190,000 |
| 25, Birchfield Avenue, Bury, BL9 7JF | 13 April 2026 | £165,000 |
| 2, Birchfield Avenue, Bury, BL9 7JF | 21 November 2025 | £170,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 69
- Primary
- 44
- Secondary
- 12
- 354 m
Our Lady & St Paul's RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 428 m
Heap Bridge Village Primary School
Academy converter
- 778 m
Oak Haven School
Community special 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
- Vehicle crime 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 64
- Postcode households
- 32
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- BL9 7 residents
- 10,662
36 female, 28 male
Age bands in BL9 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.2%
2,349 residents
1,269 residents
3,138 residents
2,791 residents
1,583 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BL9 7 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
21
within 5 km
HEADY HILL SURGERY
114 BURY NEW ROAD, HEYWOOD, OL10 4RG
ODS code P86602
1.1 km
HEYWOOD HEALTH
ARGYLE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, 141 ARGYLE STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 3SD
ODS code P86016
1.1 km
HUNTLEY MOUNT MEDICAL CENTRE
HUNTLEY MOUNT ROAD, BURY, BL9 6JA
ODS code P83621
2.0 km
BIRTLE VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
GEORGE STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 4PW
ODS code Y02718
2.0 km
ROCK HEALTHCARE LIMITED
22 DERBY WAY, BURY, BL9 0NJ
ODS code Y02755
2.3 km
BLACKFORD HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
137 CROFT LANE, HOLLINS, BURY, BL9 8QA
ODS code P83009
2.4 km
WALMERSLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
110 WALMERSLEY ROAD, BURY, BL9 6DX
ODS code P83611
2.5 km
LONGFORD STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
LONGFORD STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 4NH
ODS code P86011
2.6 km
PEEL GPS
TOWNSIDE PCC, KNOWSLEY PLACE, KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83021
2.8 km
RIBBLESDALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
TOWNSIDE PCC - KNOWSLEY PL, KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83015
2.8 km
TOWNSIDE SURGERY
TOWNSIDE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, KNOWSLEY PLACE, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83005
2.8 km
HOPWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
1-6 WALTON STREET, HOPWOOD, HEYWOOD, OL10 2BS
ODS code P86023
2.9 km
KNOWSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
9-11 KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0ST
ODS code P83024
2.9 km
UNSWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
PARR LANE, UNSWORTH, BURY, BL9 8JR
ODS code P83011
3.3 km
WOODBANK SURGERY
2 HUNSTANTON DRIVE, BURY, BL8 1EG
ODS code P83017
3.9 km
WOODSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
247J WOOD STREET, MIDDLETON, LANGLEY, MANCHESTER, M24 5QL
ODS code P86012
4.6 km
FAMILY PRACTICE
133 BOWNESS ROAD, MIDDLETON, LANGLEY, MANCHESTER, M24 4EN
ODS code P86606
4.6 km
WINDERMERE SURGERY
109-111 WINDERMERE ROAD, MIDDLETON, MANCHESTER, M24 5WF
ODS code P86620
4.6 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
GREEN LANE, WHITEFIELD, MANCHESTER, M45 7FD
ODS code P83608
4.7 km
MONARCH MEDICAL CENTRE
65 CROSS LANE, RADCLIFFE, MANCHESTER, M26 2QZ
ODS code P83010
4.8 km
Showing 20 of 21 matching practices.
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
Sussex Avenue
BCT · Darn Hill
- 0.1 miles
Sussex Avenue
BCT · Darn Hill
- 0.1 miles
Parth Street
BCT · Darn Hill
- 0.1 miles
Parth Street
BCT · Darn Hill
- 0.2 miles
Hamilton Way
BCT · Darn Hill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochdale 019E, 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
6,238 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 3
- 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
69 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 12 secondary schools. Our Lady & St Paul's RC Primary School, A Voluntary Academy is the nearest published school at 354 m.
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 Vehicle crime with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.