Schools
79 open schools are in scope, including 54 primary and 8 secondary schools. Brookland School is the nearest published school at 561 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL16 4FL
Milnrow & Newhey · Rochdale · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Milnrow & Newhey
- Local authority
- Rochdale
- Constituency
- Rochdale
- Postcode district
- OL16
- Postcode sector
- OL16 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL16 4FL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1998
- Terminated
- 1 December 1999
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL16
- Postcode sector
- OL16 4
- Latitude
- 53.604524
- Longitude
- -2.113303
- British National Grid easting
- 392,600
- British National Grid northing
- 412,000
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
- E00028130
- Lower layer super output area
- Rochdale 013C · E01005560
- Middle layer super output area
- Rochdale 013 · E02001144
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 79
- Primary
- 54
- Secondary
- 8
- 561 m
Brookland School
Other independent special school
- 810 m
Milnrow Parish Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 853 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
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OL16 4 residents
- 12,567
Age bands in OL16 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.9%
2,386 residents
1,377 residents
3,142 residents
3,342 residents
2,090 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.
GP practices
26
within 5 km straight-line
MILNROW VILLAGE PRACTICE
MILNROW & NEWHEY MEDICAL CENTRE, NEWHEY ROAD, NEWHEY, ROCHDALE, OL16 4JF
ODS code P86001
641 m
STONEFIELD STREET SURGERY
MILNROW & NEWHEY MEDICAL CENTRE, NEWHEY ROAD, NEWHEY, ROCHDALE, OL16 4JF
ODS code P86022
641 m
THE KINGSWAY PRACTICE
285A KINGSWAY, ROCHDALE, OL16 4AT
ODS code Y02720
1.7 km
WINTER PRESSURES
THE KINGSWAY PRACTICE, 285A KINGSWAY, ROCHDALE, OL16 4AT
ODS code Y05250
1.7 km
WELLFIELD HEALTH CENTRE
116 OLDHAM ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1AD
ODS code P86007
2.3 km
INSPIRE MEDICAL CENTRE
2ND FLR CROFT SHIFA HC, BELFIELD ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL16 2UY
ODS code P86017
2.6 km
CROFT SHIFA HEALTH CENTRE
BELFIELD ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL16 2UP
ODS code P86014
2.7 km
OAK GABLES MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHAW CROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE, WESTWAY, SHAW, OLDHAM, OL2 8BF
ODS code P85017
2.7 km
VILLAGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHAW CROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE, WESTWAY, SHAW, OLDHAM, OL2 8BF
ODS code P85614
2.7 km
DR A HAMID
2ND FLOOR NYE BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86614
2.8 km
DR GWD BHIMA
1ST FLOOR, BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86002
2.8 km
DR MB GHAFOOR & PARTNERS
1ST FLOOR, NYE BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86619
2.8 km
THE DALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
2ND FLOOR NYE BEVAN HOUSE, MACLURE ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL11 1DN
ODS code P86609
2.8 km
MARK STREET SURGERY
2 MARK STREET, ROCHDALE, OL12 9BE
ODS code P86008
3.0 km
KIRKHOLT MEDICAL PRACTICE
THE STRAND, KIRKHOLT, ROCHDALE, OL11 2JG
ODS code Y02721
3.1 km
YORKSHIRE ST SURGERY
188 YORKSHIRE STREET, ROCHDALE, OL16 2DN
ODS code P86005
3.1 km
THE DAWES FAMILY PRACTICE
83 SPOTLAND ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 6RX
ODS code P86026
3.8 km
ASHWORTH STREET SURGERY
85 SPOTLAND ROAD, ROCHDALE, OL12 6RT
ODS code P86006
3.8 km
THE ROYTON & CROMPTON FAMILY PRACTICE
ROYTON HEALTH WELLBEING CENTRE, PARK STREET, ROYTON, OLDHAM, OL2 6QW
ODS code P85013
4.3 km
ROYTON MEDICAL CENTRE
CHAPEL STREET, ROYTON, OLDHAM, OL2 5QL
ODS code P85019
4.3 km
Showing 20 of 26 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Beechfield Road
BCT · Lady House
- 0.0 miles
Egremont Road
BCT · Lady House
- 0.1 miles
Egremont Road
BCT · Lady House
- 0.1 miles
Harbour Lane
BCT · Lady House
- 0.1 miles
Harbour Lane
BCT · Lady House
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Rochdale 013C, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
14,943 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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.
Evidence in context
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.