Property market
The five-year median is £360,000 from 5 recorded sales in BL9 8NU. 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.
BL9 8NU
Besses · Bury · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BL9 8NU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BL
- Postcode district
- BL9
- Postcode sector
- BL9 8
- Latitude
- 53.559511
- Longitude
- -2.274093
- British National Grid easting
- 381,941
- British National Grid northing
- 407,021
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Bury · E08000002
- Electoral ward
- Besses · E05014152
- Parish or community
- E43000156
- Westminster constituency
- Bury South · E14001145
- Output area
- E00025025
- Lower layer super output area
- Bury 017A · E01004945
- Middle layer super output area
- Bury 017 · E02001035
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
35 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 7, Willow Close, Unsworth, Bury, BL9 8NU | 24 May 2024 | £500,500 |
| 10, Willow Close, Unsworth, Bury, BL9 8NU | 24 May 2024 | £255,000 |
| 4, Willow Close, Unsworth, Bury, BL9 8NU | 31 May 2023 | £567,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 96
- Primary
- 56
- Secondary
- 17
- 115 m
Bury and Whitefield Jewish Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 259 m
Brookhaven School
Free schools special
- 311 m
Unsworth Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other crime 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 49
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- BL9 8 residents
- 8,821
23 female, 26 male
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
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BL9 8 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
- 100%
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
27
within 5 km
UNSWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
PARR LANE, UNSWORTH, BURY, BL9 8JR
ODS code P83011
145 m
THE ELMS MEDICAL CENTRE
GREEN LANE, WHITEFIELD, MANCHESTER, M45 7FD
ODS code P83608
1.6 km
BLACKFORD HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
137 CROFT LANE, HOLLINS, BURY, BL9 8QA
ODS code P83009
1.7 km
THE UPLANDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
BURY NEW ROAD, WHITEFIELD, MANCHESTER, M45 8GH
ODS code P83004
1.9 km
THE BIRCHES MEDICAL CENTRE
42 POLEFIELD ROAD, PRESTWICH, MANCHESTER, M25 2GN
ODS code P83609
2.4 km
GREYLAND MEDICAL CENTRE
468 BURY OLD ROAD, PRESTWICH, MANCHESTER, M25 1NL
ODS code P83027
2.4 km
MONARCH MEDICAL CENTRE
65 CROSS LANE, RADCLIFFE, MANCHESTER, M26 2QZ
ODS code P83010
2.9 km
FAIRFAX GROUP PRACTICE
PRESTWICH HEALTH CENTRE, FAIRFAX ROAD, PRESTWICH, MANCHESTER, M25 1BT
ODS code P83001
2.9 km
LONGFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
PRESTWICH HEALTH CENTRE, FAIRFAX ROAD, PRESTWICH, MANCHESTER, M25 1BT
ODS code P83623
2.9 km
RADCLIFFE MEDICAL PRACTICE
69 CHURCH STREET WEST, RADCLIFFE, MANCHESTER, M26 2SP
ODS code P83007
3.3 km
RED BANK GROUP PRACTICE
RADCLIFFE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 69 CHURCH STREET WEST, RADCLIFFE, MANCHESTER, M26 2SP
ODS code P83603
3.3 km
WHITTAKER LANE MED CENTRE
DAISY BANK, WHITTAKER LANE, PRESTWICH, MANCHESTER, M25 1EX
ODS code P83605
3.5 km
KNOWSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
9-11 KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0ST
ODS code P83024
3.7 km
PEEL GPS
TOWNSIDE PCC, KNOWSLEY PLACE, KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83021
3.8 km
RIBBLESDALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
TOWNSIDE PCC - KNOWSLEY PL, KNOWSLEY STREET, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83015
3.8 km
TOWNSIDE SURGERY
TOWNSIDE PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, KNOWSLEY PLACE, BURY, BL9 0SN
ODS code P83005
3.8 km
FAMILY PRACTICE
133 BOWNESS ROAD, MIDDLETON, LANGLEY, MANCHESTER, M24 4EN
ODS code P86606
3.9 km
HEYWOOD HEALTH
ARGYLE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, 141 ARGYLE STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 3SD
ODS code P86016
3.9 km
WOODSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
247J WOOD STREET, MIDDLETON, LANGLEY, MANCHESTER, M24 5QL
ODS code P86012
4.0 km
ROCK HEALTHCARE LIMITED
22 DERBY WAY, BURY, BL9 0NJ
ODS code Y02755
4.1 km
Showing 20 of 27 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Sunny Bank Road
BCT · Unsworth
- 0.1 miles
Parr Lane
BCT · Unsworth
- 0.1 miles
Unsworth Medical Centre
BCT · Unsworth
- 0.1 miles
Bradley Drive
BCT · Unsworth
- 0.1 miles
Bradley Drive
BCT · Unsworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bury 017A, 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
24,393 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 10 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
96 open schools are in scope, including 56 primary and 17 secondary schools. Bury and Whitefield Jewish Primary School is the nearest published school at 115 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 Other crime with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.