Schools
180 open schools are in scope, including 103 primary and 20 secondary schools. Briscoe Lane Academy is the nearest published school at 754 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
M40 5BJ
Miles Platting & Newton Heath · Manchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Manchester
- Local authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central
- Postcode district
- M40
- Postcode sector
- M40 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- M40 5BJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- M
- Postcode district
- M40
- Postcode sector
- M40 5
- Latitude
- 53.501447
- Longitude
- -2.195506
- British National Grid easting
- 387,129
- British National Grid northing
- 400,544
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Manchester · E08000003
- Electoral ward
- Miles Platting & Newton Heath · E05011371
- Parish or community
- E43000157
- Westminster constituency
- Manchester Central · E14001352
- Output area
- E00026645
- Lower layer super output area
- Manchester 011B · E01005257
- Middle layer super output area
- Manchester 011 · E02001055
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 M40
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 17, Prospect Road, Manchester, M40 5BJ | 8 July 1996 | £15,250 |
| 19, Prospect Road, Manchester, M40 5BJ | 14 June 1996 | £29,000 |
| 13, Prospect Road, Manchester, M40 5BJ | 29 March 1996 | £24,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 180
- Primary
- 103
- Secondary
- 20
- 754 m
Briscoe Lane Academy
Academy converter
- 846 m
St Edmund's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
St Dunstan's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Other crime 2
- Drugs 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 5
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 5.0
- M40 5 residents
- 4,914
3 female, 2 male
Age bands in M40 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.8%
988 residents
527 residents
1,222 residents
1,083 residents
610 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider M40 5 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+
- 91.5%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 88.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 88.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 88.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 91.5%
- 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
52
within 5 km
ALL SAINTS MEDICAL CENTRE
NEWTON HEATH HEALTH CENTRE, 2 OLD CHURCH STREET, MANCHESTER, M40 2JF
ODS code P84047
951 m
NEWTON HEATH MEDICAL CENTRE
NEWTON HEATH HEALTH CENTRE, 2 OLD CHURCH STREET, NEWTON HEATH, MANCHESTER, M40 2JF
ODS code P84070
951 m
ST GEORGE'S MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. GEORGES DRIVE, MOSTON, MANCHESTER, M40 5HP
ODS code P84025
1.0 km
WILLOWBANK SURGERY
1 WILLOW BANK, CHURCH LANE, MANCHESTER, M9 4WH
ODS code P84679
1.3 km
SIMPSON MEDICAL PRACTICE
361 MOSTON LANE, MOSTON, MANCHESTER, M40 9NB
ODS code Y02520
1.4 km
CONRAN MEDICAL CENTRE
77 CHURCH LANE, HARPURHEY, MANCHESTER, M9 5BH
ODS code P84040
1.4 km
FERNCLOUGH SURGERY
TAVISTOCK SQUARE, MANCHESTER, M9 5RD
ODS code P84605
1.5 km
CHURCH VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
1 CHURCH LANE, HARPURHEY, MANCHESTER, M9 4BE
ODS code P84065
1.7 km
MP VICTORIA MILL
VICTORIA MILL HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA MILL, 10 LOWER VICKERS STREET, MANCHESTER, M40 7LH
ODS code Y01695
1.8 km
WHITLEY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
1 WHITLEY ROAD, COLLYHURST, MANCHESTER, M40 7QH
ODS code P84054
1.9 km
VALENTINE MEDICAL CENTRE
2 SMETHURST STREET, BLACKLEY, MANCHESTER, M9 8PP
ODS code P84019
2.0 km
DR KHAN'S PRACTICE
CLAYTON HEALTH CENTRE, 89 NORTH ROAD, MANCHESTER, M11 4EJ
ODS code P84637
2.0 km
DRS HANIF & BANNURU
CLAYTON HEALTH CENTRE, 89 NORTH ROAD, MANCHESTER, M11 4EJ
ODS code P84032
2.0 km
EASTLANDS MEDICAL CENTRE
CLAYTON HEALTH CENTRE, 89 NORTH ROAD, CLAYTON, MANCHESTER, M11 4EJ
ODS code P84051
2.0 km
CHARLESTOWN MD
CHARLESTOWN ROAD, BLACKLEY, MANCHESTER, M9 7ED
ODS code Y02325
2.4 km
ANCOATS URBAN VILLAGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
OLD MILL STREET, MANCHESTER, M4 6EE
ODS code P84673
2.6 km
NEW ISLINGTON MEDICAL CENTRE
ANCOATS PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, OLD MILL STREET, ANCOATS, MANCHESTER, M4 6EE
ODS code P84064
2.6 km
CHEETHAM HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
244 CHEETHAM HILL ROAD, MANCHESTER, M8 8AU
ODS code P84046
2.7 km
NEW COLLEGIATE MEDICAL CENTRE
407 CHEETHAM HILL ROAD, CHEETHAM HILL, MANCHESTER, M8 0DA
ODS code P84030
2.7 km
MEDLOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
KEPPEL BUILDING, FAILSWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, ASHTON ROAD WEST, MANCHESTER, M35 0AD
ODS code P85610
2.7 km
Showing 20 of 52 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
Thorp Road
BCT · Newton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Thorp Road
BCT · Newton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Ten Acres Lane
BCT · Newton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Central Park Station (Manchester Metrolink)
TMU · Newton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Halliford Road
BCT · Newton Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Manchester 011B, 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
502 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 10
- 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
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.