Schools
15 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Diggle School is the nearest published school at 754 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL3 5WB
Saddleworth North · Oldham · England
Updated September 2026
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- 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 5WB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 March 2005
- Terminated
- 1 March 2009
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL3
- Postcode sector
- OL3 5
- Latitude
- 53.563133
- Longitude
- -2.000654
- British National Grid easting
- 400,054
- British National Grid northing
- 407,389
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 2
- 754 m
Diggle School
Foundation school
- 1.2 km
St Chad's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Saddleworth School
Academy converter
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 straight-line
SADDLEWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
SMITHY LANE, UPPERMILL, OLDHAM, OL3 6AH
ODS code P85016
1.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hillside Avenue
BCT · Diggle
- 0.1 miles
Hillside Avenue
BCT · Diggle
- 0.1 miles
Saddleworth School
BCT · Diggle
- 0.1 miles
Saddleworth School
BCT · Diggle
- 0.1 miles
Spurn Lane
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.