Property market
The five-year median is £647,000 from 11 recorded sales in OL3 5TG. 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.
OL3 5TG
Saddleworth North · Oldham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Oldham
- Ward
- Saddleworth North
- Local authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth
- Postcode district
- OL3
- Postcode sector
- OL3 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL3 5TG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 2025
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL3
- Postcode sector
- OL3 5
- Latitude
- 53.560823
- Longitude
- -2.001017
- British National Grid easting
- 400,030
- British National Grid northing
- 407,132
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Oldham · E08000004
- Electoral ward
- Saddleworth North · E05014658
- Parish or community
- E04000005
- Westminster constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth · E14001415
- Output area
- E00027399
- Lower layer super output area
- Oldham 006B · E01005411
- Middle layer super output area
- Oldham 006 · E02001103
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 OL3
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 18, Nicola Hughes Close, Diggle, Oldham, OL3 5TG | 21 November 2025 | £710,000 |
| 19, Nicola Hughes Close, Diggle, Oldham, OL3 5TG | 31 October 2025 | £640,000 |
| 16, Nicola Hughes Close, Diggle, Oldham, OL3 5TG | 24 October 2025 | £674,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 3
- 932 m
St Chad's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 992 m
Diggle School
Foundation school
- 1.1 km
Saddleworth School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OL3 5 residents
- 7,536
Age bands in OL3 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 32.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.1%
1,119 residents
732 residents
1,450 residents
2,415 residents
1,815 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
1
within 5 km
SADDLEWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
SMITHY LANE, UPPERMILL, OLDHAM, OL3 6AH
ODS code P85016
1.4 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
- 0.1 miles
Saddleworth School
BCT · Diggle
- 0.1 miles
Saddleworth School
BCT · Marslands
- 0.1 miles
Saddleworth School
BCT · Diggle
- 0.2 miles
Spurn Lane
BCT · Diggle
- 0.2 miles
Hillside Avenue
BCT · Diggle
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oldham 006B, 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
19,192 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 3 secondary schools. St Chad's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 932 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.