Property market
The five-year median is £470,000 from 1 recorded sale in OL12 7UD. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Rochdale is £210,083 in June 2026, up 4.6% year on year.
OL12 7UD
Norden · Rochdale · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL12 7UD
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1981
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL12
- Postcode sector
- OL12 7
- Latitude
- 53.628643
- Longitude
- -2.225187
- British National Grid easting
- 385,205
- British National Grid northing
- 414,701
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
- E00028220
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochdale 006D · E01005571
- 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
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Wolstenholme Lane, Rochdale, OL12 7UD | 20 November 2025 | £470,000 |
| 3, Wolstenholme Lane, Rochdale, OL12 7UD | 20 November 2020 | £432,000 |
| 1, Wolstenholme Lane, Rochdale, OL12 7UD | 14 March 2019 | £330,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 55
- Primary
- 34
- Secondary
- 5
- 977 m
Whittaker Moss Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
Norden Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 2.1 km
Caldershaw Primary School
Academy converter
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
- 36
- Postcode households
- 16
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- OL12 7 residents
- 10,770
18 female, 18 male
Age bands in OL12 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.2%
1,908 residents
990 residents
2,506 residents
2,852 residents
1,961 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OL12 7 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+
- 12.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 12.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 12.5%
- 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
13
within 5 km
EDENFIELD ROAD SURGERY
CUTGATE SHOPPING PRECINCT, ROCHDALE, OL11 5AQ
ODS code P86003
2.5 km
BIRTLE VIEW MEDICAL PRACTICE
GEORGE STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 4PW
ODS code Y02718
3.7 km
LONGFORD STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
LONGFORD STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 4NH
ODS code P86011
3.9 km
HEADY HILL SURGERY
114 BURY NEW ROAD, HEYWOOD, OL10 4RG
ODS code P86602
4.0 km
ASHWORTH STREET SURGERY
85 SPOTLAND ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 6RT
ODS code P86006
4.1 km
THE DAWES FAMILY PRACTICE
83 SPOTLAND ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 6RX
ODS code P86026
4.1 km
HEALEY SURGERY
WHITWORTH ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 0SN
ODS code P86013
4.2 km
CASTLETON HEALTH CENTRE
2 ELIZABETH STREET, CASTLETON, ROCHDALE, OL11 3HY
ODS code P86009
4.5 km
HEYWOOD HEALTH
ARGYLE STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, 141 ARGYLE STREET, HEYWOOD, OL10 3SD
ODS code P86016
4.7 km
HOPWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
1-6 WALTON STREET, HOPWOOD, HEYWOOD, OL10 2BS
ODS code P86023
4.7 km
HUNTLEY MOUNT MEDICAL CENTRE
HUNTLEY MOUNT ROAD, BURY, BL9 6JA
ODS code P83621
4.7 km
YORKSHIRE ST SURGERY
188 YORKSHIRE STREET, ROCHDALE, OL16 2DN
ODS code P86005
4.9 km
WHITWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
MARKET STREET, WHITWORTH, ROCHDALE, OL12 8QS
ODS code P81088
5.0 km
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
White Lion
BCT · Norden
- 0.1 miles
Norden Close
BCT · Norden
- 0.1 miles
Edenfield Road
BCT · Norden
- 0.3 miles
Edenfield Road
BCT · Norden
- 0.4 miles
Hutchinson Road
BCT · Norden
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochdale 006D, 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
23,559 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 6 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
- 1
- 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
Schools
55 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 5 secondary schools. Whittaker Moss Primary School is the nearest published school at 977 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
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.