Schools
53 open schools are in scope, including 32 primary and 5 secondary schools. Willow View School is the nearest published school at 0.7 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL12 6BH
Norden · Rochdale · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL12 6BH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL12
- Postcode sector
- OL12 6
- Latitude
- 53.639808
- Longitude
- -2.193076
- British National Grid easting
- 387,332
- British National Grid northing
- 415,937
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Rochdale · E08000005
- Electoral ward
- Norden · E05014044
- Parish or community
- E43000159
- Westminster constituency
- Heywood and Middleton North · E14001286
- Output area
- E00027786
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochdale 006A · E01005488
- Middle layer super output area
- Rochdale 006 · E02001137
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 OL12
Property
17 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 11, Smallshaw Road, Rochdale, OL12 6BH | 6 November 2020 | £120,000 |
| 17, Smallshaw Road, Rochdale, OL12 6BH | 9 November 2018 | £110,000 |
| 15, Smallshaw Road, Rochdale, OL12 6BH | 14 March 2018 | £116,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 53
- Primary
- 32
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.1 km
Willow View School
Other independent special school
- 1.4 km
Tonacliffe Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Norden Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 157
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 53
- Anti social behaviour 36
- Criminal damage and arson 17
- Public order 12
- Vehicle crime 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 28
- Postcode households
- 13
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- OL12 6 residents
- 10,236
13 female, 15 male
Age bands in OL12 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.8%
2,160 residents
1,456 residents
2,914 residents
2,838 residents
1,897 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OL12 6 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+
- 93.8%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 87.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 87.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 87.5%
- 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
17
within 5 km straight-line
EDENFIELD ROAD SURGERY
CUTGATE SHOPPING PRECINCT, ROCHDALE, OL11 5AQ
ODS code P86003
2.0 km
HEALEY SURGERY
WHITWORTH ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 0SN
ODS code P86013
2.1 km
WHITWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
MARKET STREET, WHITWORTH, ROCHDALE, OL12 8QS
ODS code P81088
2.7 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
YORKSHIRE ST SURGERY
188 YORKSHIRE STREET, ROCHDALE, OL16 2DN
ODS code P86005
3.5 km
MARK STREET SURGERY
2 MARK STREET, ROCHDALE, OL12 9BE
ODS code P86008
3.6 km
CROFT SHIFA HEALTH CENTRE
BELFIELD ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL16 2UP
ODS code P86014
4.0 km
DR A HAMID
2ND FLOOR NYE BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86614
4.0 km
DR GWD BHIMA
1ST FLOOR, BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86002
4.0 km
DR MB GHAFOOR & PARTNERS
1ST FLOOR, NYE BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86619
4.0 km
THE DALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2ND FLOOR NYE BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86609
4.0 km
INSPIRE MEDICAL CENTRE
2ND FLR CROFT SHIFA HC, BELFIELD ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL16 2UY
ODS code P86017
4.1 km
WELLFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
116 OLDHAM ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1AD
ODS code P86007
4.7 km
CASTLETON HEALTH CENTRE
2 ELIZABETH STREET, CASTLETON, ROCHDALE, OL11 3HY
ODS code P86009
4.8 km
THE KINGSWAY PRACTICE
285A KINGSWAY, ROCHDALE, OL16 4AT
ODS code Y02720
4.9 km
WINTER PRESSURES
THE KINGSWAY PRACTICE, 285A KINGSWAY, ROCHDALE, OL16 4AT
ODS code Y05250
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lane Head Terminus
BCT · Catley Lane Head
- 0.1 miles
Smallshaw Road
BCT · Catley Lane Head
- 0.2 miles
Smallshaw Road
BCT · Catley Lane Head
- 0.2 miles
Fairview
BCT · Catley Lane Head
- 0.2 miles
Fairview
BCT · Catley Lane Head
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochdale 006A, 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
23,374 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
157 published events cover 12 months, averaging 13.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 53 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.