Schools
88 open schools are in scope, including 53 primary and 16 secondary schools. Unsworth Academy is the nearest published school at 727 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BL9 8GB
Unsworth · Bury · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Unsworth
- Local authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury South
- Postcode district
- BL9
- Postcode sector
- BL9 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL9 8GB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 March 2026
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL9
- Postcode sector
- BL9 8
- Latitude
- 53.566777
- Longitude
- -2.264492
- British National Grid easting
- 382,580
- British National Grid northing
- 407,827
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bury · E08000002
- Electoral ward
- Unsworth · E05014168
- Parish or community
- E43000156
- Westminster constituency
- Bury South · E14001145
- Output area
- E00025586
- Lower layer super output area
- Bury 013B · E01005054
- Middle layer super output area
- Bury 013 · E02001031
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 88
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 16
- 727 m
Unsworth Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 770 m
Brookhaven School
Free schools special
- 1.0 km
Bury and Whitefield Jewish Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- BL9 8 residents
- 8,821
Age bands in BL9 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.9%
1,385 residents
915 residents
1,923 residents
2,554 residents
2,133 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
32
within 5 km straight-line
UNSWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
PARR LANE, UNSWORTH, BURY, BL9 8JR
ODS code P83011
887 m
BLACKFORD HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
137 CROFT LANE, HOLLINS, BURY, BL9 8QA
ODS code P83009
1.5 km
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
GREEN LANE, WHITEFIELD, MANCHESTER, M45 7FD
ODS code P83608
2.5 km
HEYWOOD HEALTH
ARGYLE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, 141 ARGYLE STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 3SD
ODS code P86016
2.8 km
THE UPLANDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BURY NEW ROAD, WHITEFIELD, MANCHESTER, M45 8GH
ODS code P83004
2.9 km
THE BIRCHES MEDICAL CENTRE
42 POLEFIELD ROAD, PRESTWICH, MANCHESTER, M25 2GN
ODS code P83609
3.2 km
GREYLAND MEDICAL CENTRE
468 BURY OLD ROAD, PRESTWICH, MANCHESTER, M25 1NL
ODS code P83027
3.3 km
HEADY HILL SURGERY
114 BURY NEW ROAD, HEYWOOD, OL10 4RG
ODS code P86602
3.4 km
KNOWSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
9-11 KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0ST
ODS code P83024
3.4 km
FAMILY PRACTICE
133 BOWNESS ROAD, MIDDLETON, LANGLEY, MANCHESTER, M24 4EN
ODS code P86606
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
MONARCH MEDICAL CENTRE
65 CROSS LANE, RADCLIFFE, MANCHESTER, M26 2QZ
ODS code P83010
3.5 km
ROCK HEALTHCARE LIMITED
22 DERBY WAY, BURY, BL9 0NJ
ODS code Y02755
3.6 km
WOODSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
247J WOOD STREET, MIDDLETON, LANGLEY, MANCHESTER, M24 5QL
ODS code P86012
3.6 km
HUNTLEY MOUNT MEDICAL CENTRE
HUNTLEY MOUNT ROAD, BURY, BL9 6JA
ODS code P83621
3.8 km
FAIRFAX GROUP PRACTICE
PRESTWICH HEALTH CENTRE, FAIRFAX ROAD, PRESTWICH, MANCHESTER, M25 1BT
ODS code P83001
3.9 km
LONGFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
PRESTWICH HEALTH CENTRE, FAIRFAX ROAD, PRESTWICH, MANCHESTER, M25 1BT
ODS code P83623
3.9 km
WINDERMERE SURGERY
109-111 WINDERMERE ROAD, MIDDLETON, MANCHESTER, M24 5WF
ODS code P86620
3.9 km
Showing 20 of 32 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Castle Road
BCT · Unsworth
- 0.4 miles
Sykes Avenue
BCT · Hollins
- 0.4 miles
Sykes Avenue
BCT · Hollins
- 0.4 miles
Church Meadow
BCT · Hollins
- 0.4 miles
Church Meadow
BCT · Hollins
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bury 013B, 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
18,097 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.