Property market
The five-year median is £227,500 from 10 recorded sales in OL16 3ER. 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.
OL16 3ER
Milnrow & Newhey · Rochdale · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL16 3ER
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL16
- Postcode sector
- OL16 3
- Latitude
- 53.613187
- Longitude
- -2.105254
- British National Grid easting
- 393,134
- British National Grid northing
- 412,963
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Rochdale · E08000005
- Electoral ward
- Milnrow & Newhey · E05014043
- Parish or community
- E43000159
- Westminster constituency
- Rochdale · E14001446
- Output area
- E00028153
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochdale 014B · E01005557
- Middle layer super output area
- Rochdale 014 · E02001145
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 OL16
Property
40 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 42, Smith Hill, Milnrow, Rochdale, OL16 3ER | 1 May 2026 | £260,000 |
| 30, Smith Hill, Milnrow, Rochdale, OL16 3ER | 1 September 2025 | £180,000 |
| 52, Smith Hill, Milnrow, Rochdale, OL16 3ER | 15 August 2025 | £225,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 67
- Primary
- 45
- Secondary
- 6
- 232 m
Crossgates Primary School
Foundation school
- 348 m
Milnrow Parish Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 520 m
Hollingworth Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 67
- Postcode households
- 30
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- OL16 3 residents
- 8,690
36 female, 31 male
Age bands in OL16 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.6%
1,530 residents
870 residents
2,097 residents
2,294 residents
1,655 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OL16 3 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
23
within 5 km
MILNROW VILLAGE PRACTICE
MILNROW & NEWHEY MEDICAL CENTRE, NEWHEY ROAD, NEWHEY, ROCHDALE, OL16 4JF
ODS code P86001
1.1 km
STONEFIELD STREET SURGERY
MILNROW & NEWHEY MEDICAL CENTRE, NEWHEY ROAD, NEWHEY, ROCHDALE, OL16 4JF
ODS code P86022
1.1 km
THE KINGSWAY PRACTICE
285A KINGSWAY, ROCHDALE, OL16 4AT
ODS code Y02720
2.0 km
WINTER PRESSURES
THE KINGSWAY PRACTICE, 285A KINGSWAY, ROCHDALE, OL16 4AT
ODS code Y05250
2.0 km
INSPIRE MEDICAL CENTRE
2ND FLR CROFT SHIFA HC, BELFIELD ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL16 2UY
ODS code P86017
2.4 km
CROFT SHIFA HEALTH CENTRE
BELFIELD ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL16 2UP
ODS code P86014
2.5 km
MARK STREET SURGERY
2 MARK STREET, ROCHDALE, OL12 9BE
ODS code P86008
2.9 km
WELLFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
116 OLDHAM ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1AD
ODS code P86007
2.9 km
YORKSHIRE ST SURGERY
188 YORKSHIRE STREET, ROCHDALE, OL16 2DN
ODS code P86005
3.2 km
DR A HAMID
2ND FLOOR NYE BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86614
3.2 km
DR GWD BHIMA
1ST FLOOR, BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86002
3.2 km
DR MB GHAFOOR & PARTNERS
1ST FLOOR, NYE BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86619
3.2 km
THE DALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2ND FLOOR NYE BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86609
3.2 km
TRINITY MEDICAL CENTRE
22 WINTON STREET, LITTLEBOROUGH, OL15 8AR
ODS code P86624
3.3 km
LITTLEBOROUGH GROUP PRACTICE
LITTLEBOROUGH HEALTH CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD, LITTLEBOROUGH, OL15 8HF
ODS code P86018
3.3 km
PENNINE SURGERY
LITTLEBOROUGH HEALTH CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD, LITTLEBOROUGH, OL15 8HF
ODS code P86021
3.3 km
THE VILLAGE MEDICAL CTR.
VILLAGE MEDICAL CENTRE, PEEL STREET, LITTLEBOROUGH, OL15 8AQ
ODS code P86608
3.3 km
OAK GABLES MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHAW CROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE, WESTWAY, SHAW, OLDHAM, OL2 8BF
ODS code P85017
3.4 km
VILLAGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHAW CROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE, WESTWAY, SHAW, OLDHAM, OL2 8BF
ODS code P85614
3.4 km
KIRKHOLT MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE STRAND, KIRKHOLT, ROCHDALE, OL11 2JG
ODS code Y02721
4.0 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
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
- 0.1 miles
Kiln Lane
BCT · Holt Estate
- 0.1 miles
Kiln Lane
BCT · Holt Estate
- 0.1 miles
Pennine Drive
BCT · Milnrow
- 0.1 miles
Pennine Drive
BCT · Milnrow
- 0.1 miles
Smith Hill
BCT · Milnrow
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochdale 014B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,858 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
67 open schools are in scope, including 45 primary and 6 secondary schools. Crossgates Primary School is the nearest published school at 232 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 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.