Schools
169 open schools are in scope, including 87 primary and 18 secondary schools. The Albion Academy is the nearest published school at 603 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
M6 5BS
Pendleton & Charlestown · Salford · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- M6 5BS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- M
- Postcode district
- M6
- Postcode sector
- M6 5
- Latitude
- 53.489891
- Longitude
- -2.280246
- British National Grid easting
- 381,503
- British National Grid northing
- 399,277
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Salford · E08000006
- Electoral ward
- Pendleton & Charlestown · E05013030
- Parish or community
- E43000160
- Westminster constituency
- Salford · E14001459
- Output area
- E00172996
- Lower layer super output area
- Salford 024C · E01005681
- Middle layer super output area
- Salford 024 · E02001180
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 M6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 169
- Primary
- 87
- Secondary
- 18
- 603 m
The Albion Academy
Academy converter
- 769 m
Holy Family VA RC Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 816 m
St Paul's CofE Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 15
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 11
- Drugs 1
- Other theft 1
- Bicycle theft 1
- Theft from the person 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 24
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 1.7
- M6 5 residents
- 10,064
11 female, 13 male
Age bands in M6 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 18%
- Age 25 to 44
- 37.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.5%
1,591 residents
1,807 residents
3,721 residents
1,855 residents
1,056 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider M6 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 92.9%
- 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
47
within 5 km
CLARENDON SURGERY
PENDLETON GATEWAY, 1 BROADWALK, SALFORD, M6 5FX
ODS code P87634
344 m
PENDLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
PENDLETON GATEWAY, 1 BROADWALK, SALFORD, M6 5FX
ODS code P87015
344 m
CARE HOMES MEDICAL PRACTICE
MEZZANINE FLOOR, ST JAMES'S HOUSE, PENDLETON WAY, SALFORD, M6 5FW
ODS code Y02625
597 m
LANGWORTHY MEDICAL PRACTICE
250 LANGWORTHY ROAD, SALFORD, M6 5WW
ODS code P87027
966 m
1/SALFORD MEDICAL PRACTICE
194-198 LANGWORTHY ROAD, SALFORD, M6 5PP
ODS code P87004
996 m
SORREL BANK MEDICAL PRACTICE
23 BOLTON ROAD, SALFORD, M6 7HL
ODS code P87040
1.0 km
CORNERSTONE MEDICAL PRACTICE
451 LIVERPOOL STREET, SALFORD, M6 5QQ
ODS code P87639
1.3 km
MOCHA PARADE MEDICAL PRACTICE
WILLOW TREE H L C, 94 LITTLETON ROAD, SALFORD, M7 3SE
ODS code P87022
1.4 km
DR A CHAUDHRY & DR I JEET
GREAT CLOWES STREET, SALFORD, M7 1RD
ODS code P87654
1.5 km
ORDSALL HEALTH SURGERY
ORDSALL HEALTH, 118 PHOEBE STREET, SALFORD, M5 3PH
ODS code P87035
1.8 km
BLACKFRIARS
FRESH TOWERS, 138 CHAPEL STREET, SALFORD, M3 6AF
ODS code Y02622
1.8 km
THE WILLOWS MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE WILLOWS, LORDS AVENUE, SALFORD, M5 5JR
ODS code P87658
2.0 km
THE HEIGHT GENERAL PRACTICE
THE SURGERY, 355 BOLTON ROAD, SALFORD, M6 7NJ
ODS code Y02767
2.2 km
NEWBURY GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
55 RIGBY STREET, SALFORD, M7 4NX
ODS code P87026
2.3 km
REUT MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWBURY PLACE HEALTH CENTRE, 55 RIGBY STREET, SALFORD, M7 4NX
ODS code P87648
2.3 km
CITY HEALTH CENTRE
2ND FL, 32 MARKET ST, MANCHESTER, M1 1PL
ODS code Y02849
2.6 km
CORNBROOK MEDICAL PRACTICE
204 CITY ROAD, HULME, MANCHESTER, M15 4EA
ODS code P84669
2.8 km
ORIENT ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
37 ORIENT ROAD, SALFORD, M6 8LE
ODS code P87032
3.0 km
THE DOC'S SURGERY
55-59 BLOOM STREET, MANCHESTER, M1 3LY
ODS code P84683
3.1 km
CHEETHAM HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
244 CHEETHAM HILL ROAD, MANCHESTER, M8 8AU
ODS code P84046
3.2 km
Showing 20 of 47 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
University Campus
BCT · Wallness
- 0.1 miles
University Campus
BCT · Wallness
- 0.1 miles
Frederick Road
BCT · Wallness
- 0.1 miles
Frederick Road
BCT · Wallness
- 0.2 miles
Pendleton Church
BCT · Pendleton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Salford 024C, 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
1,963 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
15 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.25 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.