Schools
126 open schools are in scope, including 84 primary and 17 secondary schools. The Oldham College is the nearest published school at 385 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL1 3BB
Coldhurst · Oldham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Coldhurst
- Local authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton
- Postcode district
- OL1
- Postcode sector
- OL1 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL1 3BB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL1
- Postcode sector
- OL1 3
- Latitude
- 53.543043
- Longitude
- -2.114194
- British National Grid easting
- 392,530
- British National Grid northing
- 405,160
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Oldham · E08000004
- Electoral ward
- Coldhurst · E05014650
- Parish or community
- E43000158
- Westminster constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton · E14001416
- Output area
- E00027088
- Lower layer super output area
- Oldham 014B · E01005350
- Middle layer super output area
- Oldham 014 · E02001111
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 OL1
Schools
Within 5 km of this postcode
- Open schools
- 126
- Primary
- 84
- Secondary
- 17
- 385 m
The Oldham College
Further education
- 436 m
The Springboard Project
Free schools special
- 439 m
Future Finders Employability College
Special post 16 institution
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 12
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 8
- Other theft 3
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OL1 3 residents
- 5,328
Age bands in OL1 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 27.9%
- 1,404 residents
- Age 15 to 24
- 14.8%
- 746 residents
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.4%
- 1,431 residents
- Age 45 to 64
- 21.4%
- 1,077 residents
- Age 65 and over
- 7.5%
- 378 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.
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, coverage at January 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
34
within 5 km straight-line
JALAL PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85601
203 m
LINDLEY HOUSE HEALTH CENTRE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code Y02875
203 m
OLDHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
1ST FLOOR INTEGRATED C C, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85007
203 m
PERKINS PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85608
203 m
THE CHOWDHURY PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85003
203 m
ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTRE
ROCK STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 3UL
ODS code P85002
380 m
JOHN STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 JOHN STREET, OLDHAM, OL8 1DF
ODS code Y02827
443 m
HOPWOOD HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HOPWOOD HOUSE, THE VINEYARD, LEES ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1JN
ODS code P85014
1.2 km
KAPUR FAMILY CARE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85615
1.3 km
MD FAMILY PRACTICE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85018
1.3 km
WERNETH MEDICAL PRACTICE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85612
1.3 km
GREENBANK MEDICAL PRACTICE
NUGGET STREET, OLDHAM, OL4 1BN
ODS code P85021
1.3 km
ALEXANDRA GROUP MED PRACT
137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85015
1.4 km
GLODWICK MEDICAL PRACTICE
GLODWICK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85622
1.4 km
CHADDERTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
MIDDLETON ROAD, CHADDERTON, OLDHAM, OL9 0LH
ODS code P85004
1.9 km
WOODLANDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHADDERTON TOWN HEALTH CENTRE, MIDDLETON ROAD, CHADDERTON, OLDHAM, OL9 0LH
ODS code P85010
1.9 km
OLDHAM MEDICAL SERVICES
LANGHAM HOUSE, 368 ASHTON ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 3HF
ODS code P85012
2.0 km
LITTLETOWN FAMILY MED PRACT
53 MANCHESTER ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 4LR
ODS code P85605
2.0 km
SPRINGFIELD HOUSE
275 HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 2RJ
ODS code P85020
2.2 km
CH MEDICAL PRACTICE
FIELDS NEW RD P-CARE CTR, FIELDS NEW RD, CHADDERTON, OLDHAM, OL9 8NH
ODS code P85011
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 34 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 97 m
Market
BCT · Oldham
- 112 m
Market
BCT · Oldham
- 114 m
Market
BCT · Oldham
- 127 m
Oldham Bus Station
BCS · Oldham
- 128 m
Oldham Bus Station
BCS · Oldham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oldham 014B, 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
140 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
- 2 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
- 1
- 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
12 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1 event 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.