Schools
71 open schools are in scope, including 46 primary and 7 secondary schools. Bamford Academy is the nearest published school at 155 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL11 5QF
Bamford · Rochdale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bamford
- Local authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North
- Postcode district
- OL11
- Postcode sector
- OL11 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL11 5QF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL11
- Postcode sector
- OL11 5
- Latitude
- 53.612488
- Longitude
- -2.207038
- British National Grid easting
- 386,400
- British National Grid northing
- 412,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Rochdale · E08000005
- Electoral ward
- Bamford · E05014034
- Parish or community
- E43000159
- Westminster constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North · E14001286
- Output area
- E00028210
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochdale 011B · E01005575
- Middle layer super output area
- Rochdale 011 · E02001142
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 OL11
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 71
- Primary
- 46
- Secondary
- 7
- 155 m
Bamford Academy
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
St Michael's Church of England Primary School, Bamford
Voluntary aided school
- 1.3 km
Redwood
Community special school
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
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OL11 5 residents
- 12,349
Age bands in OL11 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.3%
2,122 residents
1,310 residents
2,868 residents
3,215 residents
2,733 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.
GP practices
23
within 5 km straight-line
EDENFIELD ROAD SURGERY
CUTGATE SHOPPING PRECINCT, ROCHDALE, OL11 5AQ
ODS code P86003
1.6 km
LONGFORD STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
LONGFORD STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 4NH
ODS code P86011
2.2 km
CASTLETON HEALTH CENTRE
2 ELIZABETH STREET, CASTLETON, ROCHDALE, OL11 3HY
ODS code P86009
2.3 km
BIRTLE VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
GEORGE STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 4PW
ODS code Y02718
2.4 km
HOPWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
1-6 WALTON STREET, HOPWOOD, HEYWOOD, OL10 2BS
ODS code P86023
2.8 km
ASHWORTH STREET SURGERY
85 SPOTLAND ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 6RT
ODS code P86006
2.9 km
THE DAWES FAMILY PRACTICE
83 SPOTLAND ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 6RX
ODS code P86026
2.9 km
HEADY HILL SURGERY
114 BURY NEW ROAD, HEYWOOD, OL10 4RG
ODS code P86602
3.1 km
DR A HAMID
2ND FLOOR NYE BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86614
3.5 km
DR GWD BHIMA
1ST FLOOR, BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86002
3.5 km
DR MB GHAFOOR & PARTNERS
1ST FLOOR, NYE BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86619
3.5 km
THE DALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2ND FLOOR NYE BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86609
3.5 km
HEYWOOD HEALTH
ARGYLE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, 141 ARGYLE STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 3SD
ODS code P86016
3.5 km
HEALEY SURGERY
WHITWORTH ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 0SN
ODS code P86013
3.7 km
YORKSHIRE ST SURGERY
188 YORKSHIRE STREET, ROCHDALE, OL16 2DN
ODS code P86005
3.7 km
KIRKHOLT MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE STRAND, KIRKHOLT, ROCHDALE, OL11 2JG
ODS code Y02721
4.0 km
WELLFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
116 OLDHAM ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1AD
ODS code P86007
4.0 km
MARK STREET SURGERY
2 MARK STREET, ROCHDALE, OL12 9BE
ODS code P86008
4.3 km
CROFT SHIFA HEALTH CENTRE
BELFIELD ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL16 2UP
ODS code P86014
4.6 km
INSPIRE MEDICAL CENTRE
2ND FLR CROFT SHIFA HC, BELFIELD ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL16 2UY
ODS code P86017
4.7 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Norden Road
BCT · Bamford
- 0.1 miles
War Office Road
BCT · Bamford
- 0.1 miles
Belgium Street
BCT · Bamford
- 0.1 miles
Belgium Street
BCT · Bamford
- 0.2 miles
Bamford Post Office
BCT · Bamford
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochdale 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,588 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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.
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.