Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 13 primary and 2 secondary schools. Diggle School is the nearest published school at 809 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL3 5XJ
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 5XJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 2002
- Terminated
- 1 June 2003
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL3
- Postcode sector
- OL3 5
- Latitude
- 53.563088
- Longitude
- -2.001998
- British National Grid easting
- 399,965
- British National Grid northing
- 407,384
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
- E00027402
- 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
- 16
- Primary
- 13
- Secondary
- 2
- 809 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
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
SADDLEWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
SMITHY LANE, UPPERMILL, OLDHAM, OL3 6AH
ODS code P85016
1.7 km
MOORSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MOORSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE, 681 RIPPONDEN ROAD, MOORSIDE, OLDHAM, OL1 4JU
ODS code P85606
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Spurn Lane
BCT · Diggle
- 0.1 miles
Saddleworth School
BCT · Diggle
- 0.1 miles
Hillside Avenue
BCT · Diggle
- 0.1 miles
Hillside Avenue
BCT · Diggle
- 0.1 miles
Saddleworth School
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
Recorded crime
2 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.167 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.