Schools
158 open schools are in scope, including 95 primary and 19 secondary schools. St Bede's College is the nearest published school at 0 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
M16 8HX
Whalley Range · Manchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Whalley Range
- Local authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Rusholme
- Postcode district
- M16
- Postcode sector
- M16 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- M16 8HX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- M
- Postcode district
- M16
- Postcode sector
- M16 8
- Latitude
- 53.451392
- Longitude
- -2.252572
- British National Grid easting
- 383,324
- British National Grid northing
- 394,987
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Manchester · E08000003
- Electoral ward
- Whalley Range · E05011379
- Parish or community
- E43000157
- Westminster constituency
- Manchester Rusholme · E14001353
- Output area
- E00175974
- Lower layer super output area
- Manchester 028E · E01033680
- Middle layer super output area
- Manchester 028 · E02001072
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 M16
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 158
- Primary
- 95
- Secondary
- 19
- 0 m
St Bede's College
Other independent school
- 458 m
St Margaret's CofE Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 603 m
St Mary's CofE Junior and Infant School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 16
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 11
- Other theft 3
- Drugs 1
- Possession of weapons 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- M16 8 residents
- 11,253
Age bands in M16 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 38.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 9.7%
1,963 residents
1,447 residents
4,422 residents
2,604 residents
1,123 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.
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
55
within 5 km straight-line
THE RANGE MEDICAL CENTRE
WITHINGTON ROAD, WHALLEY RANGE, MANCHESTER, M16 8EE
ODS code P84039
316 m
THE WHITSWOOD PRACTICE
2 WHITSWOOD CLOSE, MANCHESTER, M16 7AP
ODS code P84635
493 m
THE ALEXANDRA PRACTICE
365 WILBRAHAM ROAD, WHALLEY RANGE, MANCHESTER, M16 8NG
ODS code P84650
942 m
ASHVILLE SURGERY
171 UPPER CHORLTON ROAD, MANCHESTER, M16 9RT
ODS code P84038
1.0 km
LIMELIGHT HEALTH AND WELLBEING HUB
LIMELIGHT, 1 ST BRIDES WAY, MANCHESTER, M16 9NW
ODS code P91020
1.3 km
PRINCESS ROAD SURGERY
471-475 PRINCESS ROAD, WITHINGTON, MANCHESTER, M20 1BH
ODS code P84056
1.4 km
WILBRAHAM SURGERY
515 WILBRAHAM ROAD, CHORLTON CUM HARDY, MANCHESTER, M21 0UF
ODS code P84071
1.6 km
THE ROBERT DARBISHIRE PRACTICE
RUSHOLME HEALTH CENTRE, WALMER STREET, RUSHOLME, MANCHESTER, M14 5NP
ODS code P84072
1.8 km
THE ARCH MEDICAL PRACTICE
HULME MEDICAL CENTRE, 175 ROYCE ROAD, HULME, MANCHESTER, M15 5TJ
ODS code P84630
1.8 km
CORNBROOK MEDICAL PRACTICE
204 CITY ROAD, HULME, MANCHESTER, M15 4EA
ODS code P84669
1.9 km
WILMSLOW ROAD SURGERY
WILMSLOW ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE, 156 WILMSLOW ROAD, RUSHOLME, MANCHESTER, M14 5LQ
ODS code P84626
2.0 km
CHORLTON FAMILY PRACTICE
CHORLTON HEALTH CENTRE, 1 NICOLAS ROAD, CHORLTON CUM HARDY, MANCHESTER, M21 9NJ
ODS code P84068
2.0 km
THE BORCHARDT MEDICAL CENTRE
62 WHITCHURCH ROAD, WITHINGTON, MANCHESTER, M20 1EB
ODS code P84010
2.1 km
SURREY LODGE PRACTICE
11 ANSON ROAD, VICTORIA PARK, MANCHESTER, M14 5BY
ODS code P84023
2.4 km
DAVID MEDICAL CENTRE
274 BARLOW MOOR ROAD, CHORLTON CUM HARDY, MANCHESTER, M21 8HA
ODS code P84066
2.4 km
DIDSBURY MEDICAL CENTRE - DR WHITAKER
1 THE AVENUE, DIDSBURY, MANCHESTER, M20 2ER
ODS code P84678
2.4 km
BODEY MEDICAL CENTRE
28 LADYBARN LANE, FALLOWFIELD, MANCHESTER, M14 6WP
ODS code P84035
2.8 km
WITHINGTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
WITHINGTON HEALTH CENTRE, 535 WILMSLOW ROAD, MANCHESTER, M20 4BA
ODS code P84665
2.8 km
ARDWICK MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE VALLANCE MEDICAL CENTRE, WADESON ROAD, MANCHESTER, M13 9UJ
ODS code P84037
2.8 km
BRUNSWICK MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE VALLANCE MEDICAL CENTRE, WADESON ROAD, MANCHESTER, M13 9UJ
ODS code P84611
2.8 km
Showing 20 of 55 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Wellington Road
BCT · Alexandra Park
- 0.0 miles
St Bede's College
BCT · Alexandra Park
- 0.1 miles
Range Road
BCT · Alexandra Park
- 0.1 miles
Demesne Road
BCT · Alexandra Park
- 0.2 miles
Demesne Road
BCT · Alexandra Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Manchester 028E, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
6,793 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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.
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
Recorded crime
16 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 11 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.