Property market
The five-year median is £145,000 from 2 recorded sales in OL12 8PR. 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 8PR
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 8PR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL12
- Postcode sector
- OL12 8
- Latitude
- 53.654701
- Longitude
- -2.176138
- British National Grid easting
- 388,456
- British National Grid northing
- 417,591
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
- E00128786
- Lower layer super output area
- Rossendale 009D · E01025376
- 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
28 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, Union Street, Whitworth, Rochdale, OL12 8PR | 19 September 2025 | £165,000 |
| 21, Union Street, Whitworth, Rochdale, OL12 8PR | 17 February 2023 | £125,000 |
| 23, Union Street, Whitworth, Rochdale, OL12 8PR | 23 July 2021 | £120,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 46
- Primary
- 28
- Secondary
- 4
- 410 m
St Bartholomew's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled school
- 516 m
Whitworth Community High School
Community school
- 652 m
Tonacliffe Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 484
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 197
- Anti social behaviour 117
- Criminal damage and arson 40
- Public order 29
- Other theft 27
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 41
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- OL12 8 residents
- 7,601
16 female, 25 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 0.5% 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
11
within 5 km
WHITWORTH MEDICAL CENTRE
MARKET STREET, WHITWORTH, ROCHDALE, OL12 8QS
ODS code P81088
736 m
HEALEY SURGERY
WHITWORTH ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 0SN
ODS code P86013
2.6 km
EDENFIELD ROAD SURGERY
CUTGATE SHOPPING PRECINCT, ROCHDALE, OL11 5AQ
ODS code P86003
3.7 km
ASHWORTH STREET SURGERY
85 SPOTLAND ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 6RT
ODS code P86006
4.0 km
MARK STREET SURGERY
2 MARK STREET, ROCHDALE, OL12 9BE
ODS code P86008
4.0 km
THE DAWES FAMILY PRACTICE
83 SPOTLAND ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 6RX
ODS code P86026
4.0 km
YORKSHIRE ST SURGERY
188 YORKSHIRE STREET, ROCHDALE, OL16 2DN
ODS code P86005
4.1 km
CROFT SHIFA HEALTH CENTRE
BELFIELD ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL16 2UP
ODS code P86014
4.3 km
INSPIRE MEDICAL CENTRE
2ND FLR CROFT SHIFA HC, BELFIELD ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL16 2UY
ODS code P86017
4.3 km
LITTLEBOROUGH GROUP PRACTICE
LITTLEBOROUGH HEALTH CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD, LITTLEBOROUGH, OL15 8HF
ODS code P86018
5.0 km
PENNINE SURGERY
LITTLEBOROUGH HEALTH CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD, LITTLEBOROUGH, OL15 8HF
ODS code P86021
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
Union Street
BCT · Whitworth
- 0.0 miles
Union Street
BCT · Whitworth
- 0.1 miles
Hall Street
BCT · Whitworth
- 0.1 miles
Milner Street
BCT · Whitworth
- 0.1 miles
Milner Street
BCT · Whitworth
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rossendale 009D, 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
7,432 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 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
- 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
46 open schools are in scope, including 28 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Bartholomew's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 410 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
484 published events cover 12 months, averaging 40.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 197 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.