Property market
The five-year median is £143,500 from 2 recorded sales in OL2 8RU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Oldham is £214,850 in June 2026, up 5.1% year on year.
OL2 8RU
Shaw · Oldham · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL2 8RU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL2
- Postcode sector
- OL2 8
- Latitude
- 53.574141
- Longitude
- -2.096186
- British National Grid easting
- 393,728
- British National Grid northing
- 408,618
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Oldham · E08000004
- Electoral ward
- Shaw · E05014661
- Parish or community
- E04012153
- Westminster constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth · E14001415
- Output area
- E00027580
- Lower layer super output area
- Oldham 003D · E01005447
- Middle layer super output area
- Oldham 003 · E02001100
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 OL2
Property
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 14, Hawthorn Crescent, Shaw, Oldham, OL2 8RU | 9 April 2026 | £170,000 |
| 23, Hawthorn Crescent, Shaw, Oldham, OL2 8RU | 25 August 2022 | £117,000 |
| 11, Hawthorn Crescent, Shaw, Oldham, OL2 8RU | 11 May 2021 | £260,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 94
- Primary
- 65
- Secondary
- 12
- 288 m
Farrowdale House School
Other independent school
- 578 m
Crompton Primary School
Community school
- 586 m
St Joseph's RC Junior, Infant and Nursery School, A Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other crime 1
- Violence and sexual offences 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 46
- Postcode households
- 20
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- OL2 8 residents
- 7,985
25 female, 21 male
Age bands in OL2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 20%
1,451 residents
868 residents
2,134 residents
2,322 residents
1,698 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OL2 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
29
within 5 km
OAK GABLES MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHAW CROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE, WESTWAY, SHAW, OLDHAM, OL2 8BF
ODS code P85017
1.2 km
VILLAGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
SHAW CROMPTON MEDICAL CENTRE, WESTWAY, SHAW, OLDHAM, OL2 8BF
ODS code P85614
1.2 km
MOORSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MOORSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE, 681 RIPPONDEN ROAD, MOORSIDE, OLDHAM, OL1 4JU
ODS code P85606
1.9 km
THE ROYTON & CROMPTON FAMILY PRACTICE
ROYTON HEALTH WELLBEING CENTRE, PARK STREET, ROYTON, OLDHAM, OL2 6QW
ODS code P85013
1.9 km
ROYTON MEDICAL CENTRE
CHAPEL STREET, ROYTON, OLDHAM, OL2 5QL
ODS code P85019
2.2 km
SPRINGFIELD HOUSE
275 HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 2RJ
ODS code P85020
2.9 km
MILNROW VILLAGE PRACTICE
MILNROW & NEWHEY MEDICAL CENTRE, NEWHEY ROAD, NEWHEY, ROCHDALE, OL16 4JF
ODS code P86001
3.3 km
STONEFIELD STREET SURGERY
MILNROW & NEWHEY MEDICAL CENTRE, NEWHEY ROAD, NEWHEY, ROCHDALE, OL16 4JF
ODS code P86022
3.3 km
ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTRE
ROCK STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 3UL
ODS code P85002
3.5 km
HOPWOOD HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HOPWOOD HOUSE, THE VINEYARD, LEES ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1JN
ODS code P85014
3.6 km
JALAL PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85601
3.6 km
LINDLEY HOUSE HEALTH CENTRE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code Y02875
3.6 km
OLDHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
1ST FLOOR INTEGRATED C C, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85007
3.6 km
PERKINS PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85608
3.6 km
THE CHOWDHURY PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85003
3.6 km
LEES MEDICAL PRACTICE
ATHENS WAY, LEES, OLDHAM, OL4 3BP
ODS code P85022
4.0 km
GREENBANK MEDICAL PRACTICE
NUGGET STREET, OLDHAM, OL4 1BN
ODS code P85021
4.0 km
ALEXANDRA GROUP MED PRACT
137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85015
4.0 km
GLODWICK MEDICAL PRACTICE
GLODWICK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85622
4.0 km
JOHN STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 JOHN STREET, OLDHAM, OL8 1DF
ODS code Y02827
4.0 km
Showing 20 of 29 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Crompton Health Centre
BCT · Shaw
- 0.1 miles
Crompton Health Centre
BCT · Shaw
- 0.1 miles
Community Centre
BCT · Shaw
- 0.1 miles
Longley Street
BCT · Shaw
- 0.1 miles
Longley Street
BCT · Shaw
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oldham 003D, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
2,910 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
94 open schools are in scope, including 65 primary and 12 secondary schools. Farrowdale House School is the nearest published school at 288 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other crime with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.