Schools
86 open schools are in scope, including 54 primary and 12 secondary schools. Bridgewater School is the nearest published school at 228 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
M28 2WA
Worsley & Westwood Park · Salford · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Manchester
- Local authority
- Salford
- Constituency
- Worsley and Eccles
- Postcode district
- M28
- Postcode sector
- M28 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- M28 2WA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- M
- Postcode district
- M28
- Postcode sector
- M28 2
- Latitude
- 53.501481
- Longitude
- -2.368047
- British National Grid easting
- 375,684
- British National Grid northing
- 400,593
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Salford · E08000006
- Electoral ward
- Worsley & Westwood Park · E05013037
- Parish or community
- E43000160
- Westminster constituency
- Worsley and Eccles · E14001598
- Output area
- E00029072
- Lower layer super output area
- Salford 014C · E01005738
- Middle layer super output area
- Salford 014 · E02001170
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 M28
Property
8 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Beechwood Drive, Worsley, Manchester, M28 2WA | 1 December 2017 | £479,000 |
| 1, Beechwood Drive, Worsley, Manchester, M28 2WA | 12 December 2016 | £775,000 |
| 4, Beechwood Drive, Worsley, Manchester, M28 2WA | 16 February 2015 | £652,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 86
- Primary
- 54
- Secondary
- 12
- 228 m
Bridgewater School
Other independent school
- 487 m
Broadoak Primary School
Academy converter
- 838 m
Alder Brook Primary Partnership Centre
Academy alternative provision converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 26
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 3.7
- M28 2 residents
- 6,271
11 female, 15 male
Age bands in M28 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.5%
1,152 residents
536 residents
1,508 residents
1,816 residents
1,542 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider M28 2 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
23
within 5 km straight-line
THE SIDES MEDICAL PRACTICE
MOORSIDE ROAD, SWINTON, MANCHESTER, M27 0EW
ODS code P87016
1.0 km
1/MONTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
MONTON MEDICAL CENTRE, CANAL SIDE, ECCLES, MANCHESTER, M30 8AR
ODS code P87620
1.3 km
THE POPLARS MEDICAL PRACTICE
202 PARTINGTON LANE, SWINTON, MANCHESTER, M27 0NA
ODS code P87002
2.0 km
3/SPRINGFIELD HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
384 LIVERPOOL ROAD, ECCLES, MANCHESTER, M30 8QD
ODS code P87024
2.4 km
THE LAKES MEDICAL PRACTICE
21 CHORLEY ROAD, SWINTON, MANCHESTER, M27 4AF
ODS code P87025
2.4 km
ST ANDREWS MEDICAL CENTRE
30 RUSSELL STREET, ECCLES, MANCHESTER, M30 0NU
ODS code P87020
2.6 km
ORIENT ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
37 ORIENT ROAD, SALFORD, M6 8LE
ODS code P87032
2.9 km
THE LIMES MEDICAL PRACTICE
8-12 HODGE ROAD, WALKDEN, WORSLEY, MANCHESTER, M28 3AT
ODS code P87017
3.1 km
WALKDEN MEDICAL CENTRE
2 HODGE ROAD, WALKDEN, WORSLEY, MANCHESTER, M28 3AT
ODS code P87008
3.1 km
SILVERDALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
PENDLEBURY HEALTH CENTRE, 659 BOLTON ROAD, PENDLEBURY, MANCHESTER, M27 8HP
ODS code P87019
3.1 km
ELLENBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
14 MORSTON CLOSE, WORSLEY, MANCHESTER, M28 1PB
ODS code P87624
3.2 km
THE GILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 HARRIET STREET, WORSLEY, WALKDEN, MANCHESTER, M28 3DR
ODS code P87028
3.2 km
ORCHARD MEDICAL PRACTICE
10 LEIGH ROAD, WORSLEY, BOOTHSTOWN, MANCHESTER, M28 1LZ
ODS code P87627
3.5 km
THE HEIGHT GENERAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, 355 BOLTON ROAD, SALFORD, M6 7NJ
ODS code Y02767
3.9 km
THE WILLOWS MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE WILLOWS, LORDS AVENUE, SALFORD, M5 5JR
ODS code P87658
4.3 km
BOOTHSTOWN MEDICAL CENTRE
PARR BRIDGE H&W CENTRE, PARR BRIDGE RETAIL PARK, MOSLEY COMMON ROAD, MANCHESTER, M29 8RZ
ODS code P92605
4.3 km
CHERRY MEDICAL PRACTICE
LITTLE HULTON HEALTH CENTRE, 4 LONGSHAW DRIVE, WORSLEY, MANCHESTER, M28 0BB
ODS code P87630
4.4 km
DEARDEN AVENUE MEDICAL PRACTICE
LITTLE HULTON HEALTH CENTRE, 4 LONGSHAW DRIVE, WORSLEY, MANCHESTER, M28 0BB
ODS code P87625
4.4 km
MANCHESTER ROAD EAST MEDICAL PRACTICE
LITTLE HULTON HEALTH CENTRE, 4 LONGSHAW DRIVE, WORSLEY, MANCHESTER, M28 0BB
ODS code P87661
4.4 km
SALFORD PRIMARY CARE TOGETHER
4 LONGSHAW DRIVE, WORSLEY, MANCHESTER, M28 0BB
ODS code Y00445
4.4 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Greenleach Lane
BCT · Broadoak Park
- 0.1 miles
Brentwood Avenue
BCT · Broadoak Park
- 0.1 miles
Welbeck Road
BCT · Broadoak Park
- 0.1 miles
Bridgewater School
BCT · Broadoak Park
- 0.1 miles
Bridgewater School
BCT · Broadoak Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Salford 014C, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
27,897 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
- 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
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.