Property market
The five-year median is £67,500 from 3 recorded sales in OL12 8AB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Rossendale is £193,320 in June 2026, up 4.6% year on year.
OL12 8AB
Whitworth · Rossendale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Rochdale
- Ward
- Whitworth
- Local authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen
- Postcode district
- OL12
- Postcode sector
- OL12 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL12 8AB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2011
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL12
- Postcode sector
- OL12 8
- Latitude
- 53.662103
- Longitude
- -2.172507
- British National Grid easting
- 388,698
- British National Grid northing
- 418,414
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Rossendale · E07000125
- Electoral ward
- Whitworth · E05015826
- Parish or community
- E04005291
- Westminster constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen · E14001450
- Output area
- E00128714
- Lower layer super output area
- Rossendale 009B · E01025360
- Middle layer super output area
- Rossendale 009 · E02005286
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
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 4, Whitworth Rise, Whitworth, Rochdale, OL12 8AB | 3 July 2026 | £67,500 |
| 1, Whitworth Rise, Whitworth, Rochdale, OL12 8AB | 26 April 2024 | £135,000 |
| 1, Whitworth Rise, Whitworth, Rochdale, OL12 8AB | 24 June 2022 | £60,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 41
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 3
- 364 m
Our Lady and St Anselm's Roman Catholic Primary School, Whitworth
Voluntary aided school
- 788 m
Whitworth Community High School
Community school
- 914 m
St Bartholomew's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 500
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 216
- Anti social behaviour 120
- Criminal damage and arson 41
- Other theft 30
- Public order 22
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- OL12 8 residents
- 7,601
0 female, 2 male
Age bands in OL12 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.3%
1,305 residents
749 residents
1,823 residents
2,338 residents
1,583 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OL12 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
10
within 5 km
WHITWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
MARKET STREET, WHITWORTH, ROCHDALE, OL12 8QS
ODS code P81088
140 m
HEALEY SURGERY
WHITWORTH ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 0SN
ODS code P86013
3.3 km
IRWELL MEDICAL PRACTICE
IRWELL MEDICAL CENTRE, IRWELL MILL, ROCHDALE ROAD, BACUP, OL13 9NR
ODS code P81027
4.5 km
EDENFIELD ROAD SURGERY
CUTGATE SHOPPING PRECINCT, ROCHDALE, OL11 5AQ
ODS code P86003
4.6 km
MARK STREET SURGERY
2 MARK STREET, ROCHDALE, OL12 9BE
ODS code P86008
4.6 km
ASHWORTH STREET SURGERY
85 SPOTLAND ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 6RT
ODS code P86006
4.8 km
THE DAWES FAMILY PRACTICE
83 SPOTLAND ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 6RX
ODS code P86026
4.8 km
YORKSHIRE ST SURGERY
188 YORKSHIRE STREET, ROCHDALE, OL16 2DN
ODS code P86005
4.8 km
CROFT SHIFA HEALTH CENTRE
BELFIELD ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL16 2UP
ODS code P86014
4.9 km
INSPIRE MEDICAL CENTRE
2ND FLR CROFT SHIFA HC, BELFIELD ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL16 2UY
ODS code P86017
4.9 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Tong Lane
BCT · Whitworth
- 0.0 miles
Tong Lane
BCT · Whitworth
- 0.1 miles
Lords
BCT · Whitworth
- 0.2 miles
Minnie Street
BCT · Facit
- 0.2 miles
North Street
BCT · Whitworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rossendale 009B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,044 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
Schools
41 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 3 secondary schools. Our Lady and St Anselm's Roman Catholic Primary School, Whitworth is the nearest published school at 364 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
500 published events cover 12 months, averaging 41.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 216 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.