Schools
175 open schools are in scope, including 101 primary and 19 secondary schools. Oasis Academy Temple is the nearest published school at 138 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
M8 8UJ
Cheetham · Manchester · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Manchester
- Ward
- Cheetham
- Local authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Central
- Postcode district
- M8
- Postcode sector
- M8 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- M8 8UJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- M
- Postcode district
- M8
- Postcode sector
- M8 8
- Latitude
- 53.504371
- Longitude
- -2.234130
- British National Grid easting
- 384,568
- British National Grid northing
- 400,877
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Manchester · E08000003
- Electoral ward
- Cheetham · E05011356
- Parish or community
- E43000157
- Westminster constituency
- Manchester Central · E14001352
- Output area
- E00026048
- Lower layer super output area
- Manchester 056D · E01033676
- Middle layer super output area
- Manchester 056 · E02006913
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 M8
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5 - 7, Smedley Lane, Manchester, M8 8UJ | 22 June 2021 | £5,000 |
| 5 - 7, Smedley Lane, Manchester, M8 8UJ | 21 March 2017 | £580,000 |
| 5, Smedley Lane, Manchester, M8 8UJ | 21 March 2017 | £580,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 175
- Primary
- 101
- Secondary
- 19
- 138 m
Oasis Academy Temple
Academy converter
- 346 m
The Olive School, Manchester
Free schools
- 510 m
St Chad's Roman Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 18
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- M8 8 residents
- 4,312
8 female, 10 male
Age bands in M8 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 25.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.5%
1,007 residents
515 residents
1,301 residents
800 residents
294 residents
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider M8 8 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
56
within 5 km
NEW COLLEGIATE MEDICAL CENTRE
407 CHEETHAM HILL ROAD, CHEETHAM HILL, MANCHESTER, M8 0DA
ODS code P84030
129 m
CHEETHAM HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
244 CHEETHAM HILL ROAD, MANCHESTER, M8 8AU
ODS code P84046
410 m
WELLFIELD MEDICAL CENTRE
53 CRESCENT ROAD, CRUMPSALL, MANCHESTER, M8 9JT
ODS code P84074
1.1 km
FERNCLOUGH SURGERY
TAVISTOCK SQUARE, MANCHESTER, M9 5RD
ODS code P84605
1.2 km
WHITLEY ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
1 WHITLEY ROAD, COLLYHURST, MANCHESTER, M40 7QH
ODS code P84054
1.3 km
CRUMPSALL MEDICAL PRACTICE
DELAUNAYS ROAD, MANCHESTER, M8 5RB
ODS code P84684
1.5 km
PARK VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
66 DELAUNAYS ROAD, MANCHESTER, M8 4RF
ODS code P84645
1.6 km
CHURCH VIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
1 CHURCH LANE, HARPURHEY, MANCHESTER, M9 4BE
ODS code P84065
1.6 km
CONRAN MEDICAL CENTRE
77 CHURCH LANE, HARPURHEY, MANCHESTER, M9 5BH
ODS code P84040
1.7 km
NEWBURY GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
55 RIGBY STREET, SALFORD, M7 4NX
ODS code P87026
1.8 km
REUT MEDICAL PRACTICE
NEWBURY PLACE HEALTH CENTRE, 55 RIGBY STREET, SALFORD, M7 4NX
ODS code P87648
1.8 km
WILLOWBANK SURGERY
1 WILLOW BANK, CHURCH LANE, MANCHESTER, M9 4WH
ODS code P84679
1.8 km
VALENTINE MEDICAL CENTRE
2 SMETHURST STREET, BLACKLEY, MANCHESTER, M9 8PP
ODS code P84019
1.9 km
DR A CHAUDHRY & DR I JEET
GREAT CLOWES STREET, SALFORD, M7 1RD
ODS code P87654
2.0 km
MP VICTORIA MILL
VICTORIA MILL HEALTH CENTRE, VICTORIA MILL, 10 LOWER VICKERS STREET, MANCHESTER, M40 7LH
ODS code Y01695
2.1 km
THE NEVILLE FAMILY CENTRE
25 OLD MARKET STREET, BLACKLEY, MANCHESTER, M9 8DX
ODS code P84663
2.2 km
CITY HEALTH CENTRE
2ND FL, 32 MARKET ST, MANCHESTER, M1 1PL
ODS code Y02849
2.5 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
BLACKFRIARS
FRESH TOWERS, 138 CHAPEL STREET, SALFORD, M3 6AF
ODS code Y02622
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 56 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
Broadoak Court
BCT · Smedley
- 0.0 miles
Broadoak Court
BCT · Smedley
- 0.1 miles
Bignor Street
BCT · Smedley
- 0.1 miles
Bignor Street
BCT · Smedley
- 0.1 miles
Museum of Transport
BCT · Smedley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Manchester 056D, 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
608 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 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
9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 8 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.