Schools
74 open schools are in scope, including 49 primary and 14 secondary schools. Edgar Wood Academy is the nearest published school at 606 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
M24 5AH
West Middleton · Rochdale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- West Middleton
- Local authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North
- Postcode district
- M24
- Postcode sector
- M24 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- M24 5AH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- M
- Postcode district
- M24
- Postcode sector
- M24 5
- Latitude
- 53.563838
- Longitude
- -2.214742
- British National Grid easting
- 385,874
- British National Grid northing
- 407,489
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Rochdale · E08000005
- Electoral ward
- West Middleton · E05014052
- Parish or community
- E43000159
- Westminster constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North · E14001286
- Output area
- E00028100
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochdale 022C · E01005551
- Middle layer super output area
- Rochdale 022 · E02001153
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 M24
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 74
- Primary
- 49
- Secondary
- 14
- 606 m
Edgar Wood Academy
Free schools
- 758 m
Bowlee Park Community Primary School
Community school
- 882 m
St Anne's Church of England Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Public order 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- M24 5 residents
- 9,249
Age bands in M24 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.8%
1,850 residents
903 residents
2,465 residents
2,162 residents
1,281 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
23
within 5 km straight-line
WINDERMERE SURGERY
109-111 WINDERMERE ROAD, MIDDLETON, MANCHESTER, M24 5WF
ODS code P86620
727 m
WOODSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
247J WOOD STREET, MIDDLETON, LANGLEY, MANCHESTER, M24 5QL
ODS code P86012
838 m
FAMILY PRACTICE
133 BOWNESS ROAD, MIDDLETON, LANGLEY, MANCHESTER, M24 4EN
ODS code P86606
1.0 km
ROCHDALE ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
48A ROCHDALE ROAD, MIDDLETON, MANCHESTER, M24 2PU
ODS code P86015
1.5 km
DURNFORD MEDICAL CENTRE
113 LONG STREET, MIDDLETON, MANCHESTER, M24 6DL
ODS code P86019
1.6 km
THE HIVE HEALTH CENTRE
CLOUGH STREET, MIDDLETON, MANCHESTER, M24 2YJ
ODS code Y00726
2.0 km
MIDDLETON HEALTH CENTRE
THE HEALTH CENTRE UNIT F1, MIDDLETON SHOPPING CENTRE, MIDDLETON, MANCHESTER, M24 4EL
ODS code Y02795
2.0 km
PETERLOO MEDICAL CENTRE
133 MANCHESTER OLD ROAD, MIDDLETON, MANCHESTER, M24 4DZ
ODS code P86004
2.0 km
HOPWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
1-6 WALTON STREET, HOPWOOD, HEYWOOD, OL10 2BS
ODS code P86023
2.6 km
HEYWOOD HEALTH
ARGYLE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, 141 ARGYLE STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 3SD
ODS code P86016
3.1 km
BEACON MEDICAL CENTRE
156 VICTORIA AVENUE, BLACKLEY, MANCHESTER, M9 0FN
ODS code P84033
3.3 km
LONGFORD STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
LONGFORD STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 4NH
ODS code P86011
3.4 km
THE AVENUE MEDICAL CENTRE
51-53 VICTORIA AVENUE, BLACKLEY, MANCHESTER, M9 6BA
ODS code P84049
3.4 km
BIRTLE VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
GEORGE STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 4PW
ODS code Y02718
3.6 km
THE JUNCTION SURGERY
346 GRIMSHAW LANE, MIDDLETON, MIDDLETON JUNCTION, MANCHESTER, M24 2AU
ODS code P86010
3.6 km
HEADY HILL SURGERY
114 BURY NEW ROAD, HEYWOOD, OL10 4RG
ODS code P86602
3.8 km
UNSWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
PARR LANE, UNSWORTH, BURY, BL9 8JR
ODS code P83011
3.9 km
DAM HEAD MEDICAL CENTRE
1020 ROCHDALE ROAD, BLACKLEY, MANCHESTER, M9 7HD
ODS code P84690
4.2 km
CASTLETON HEALTH CENTRE
2 ELIZABETH STREET, CASTLETON, ROCHDALE, OL11 3HY
ODS code P86009
4.3 km
THE NEVILLE FAMILY CENTRE
25 OLD MARKET STREET, BLACKLEY, MANCHESTER, M9 8DX
ODS code P84663
4.6 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Langley Lane
BCT · Hollins
- 0.1 miles
Langley Lane
BCT · Birch
- 0.2 miles
Causey Drive
BCT · Langley
- 0.2 miles
Causey Drive
BCT · Langley
- 0.2 miles
Burnside Crescent
BCT · Langley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochdale 022C, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,640 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.