Property market
The five-year median is £396,500 from 4 recorded sales in OL3 5WG. 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 5WG
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 5WG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2000
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL3
- Postcode sector
- OL3 5
- Latitude
- 53.563079
- Longitude
- -2.000700
- British National Grid easting
- 400,051
- British National Grid northing
- 407,383
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
29 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 12, Lower Wrigley Green, Diggle, Oldham, OL3 5WG | 31 October 2025 | £415,000 |
| 3, Lower Wrigley Green, Diggle, Oldham, OL3 5WG | 26 July 2024 | £342,500 |
| 5, Lower Wrigley Green, Diggle, Oldham, OL3 5WG | 19 July 2023 | £395,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 15
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 2
- 761 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
- 45
- Postcode households
- 15
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- OL3 5 residents
- 7,536
24 female, 21 male
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
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OL3 5 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
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.
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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
15 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Diggle School is the nearest published school at 761 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.