Schools
21 open schools are in scope, including 17 primary and 2 secondary schools. Northern Primary School is the nearest published school at 3 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL13 8PH
Bacup · Rossendale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Bacup
- Local authority
- Rossendale
- Constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen
- Postcode district
- OL13
- Postcode sector
- OL13 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL13 8PH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 2001
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL13
- Postcode sector
- OL13 8
- Latitude
- 53.717966
- Longitude
- -2.199451
- British National Grid easting
- 386,935
- British National Grid northing
- 424,634
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Rossendale · E07000125
- Electoral ward
- Bacup · E05015817
- Parish or community
- E43000099
- Westminster constituency
- Rossendale and Darwen · E14001450
- Output area
- E00128754
- Lower layer super output area
- Rossendale 003A · E01025367
- Middle layer super output area
- Rossendale 003 · E02005280
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 OL13
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 17
- Secondary
- 2
- 3 m
Northern Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Bacup Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 1.2 km
Bacup Thorn Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 578
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 228
- Anti social behaviour 83
- Criminal damage and arson 58
- Other theft 55
- Burglary 36
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OL13 8 residents
- 4,642
Age bands in OL13 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.5%
757 residents
426 residents
971 residents
1,285 residents
783 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.
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
2
within 5 km
IRWELL MEDICAL PRACTICE
IRWELL MEDICAL CENTRE, IRWELL MILL, ROCHDALE ROAD, BACUP, OL13 9NR
ODS code P81027
2.0 km
WATERFOOT MEDICAL PRACTICE
WATERFOOT HEALTH CENTRE, COWPE ROAD, WATERFOOT, ROSSENDALE, BB4 7DN
ODS code P81132
4.6 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
Northern CPS
BCT · Broad Clough
- 0.0 miles
Northern CPS
BCT · Broad Clough
- 0.2 miles
Plantation View
BCT · Weir
- 0.2 miles
Plantation View
BCT · Weir
- 0.2 miles
York Street
BCT · Broad Clough
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rossendale 003A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,208 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
578 published events cover 12 months, averaging 48.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 228 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.