Schools
23 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 3 secondary schools. Saddleworth School is the nearest published school at 601 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL3 6HN
Saddleworth South · Oldham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Saddleworth South
- Local authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth
- Postcode district
- OL3
- Postcode sector
- OL3 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL3 6HN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 2001
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL3
- Postcode sector
- OL3 6
- Latitude
- 53.547053
- Longitude
- -1.998450
- British National Grid easting
- 400,200
- British National Grid northing
- 405,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Oldham · E08000004
- Electoral ward
- Saddleworth South · E05014659
- Parish or community
- E04000005
- Westminster constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth · E14001415
- Output area
- E00027372
- Lower layer super output area
- Oldham 020E · E01032922
- Middle layer super output area
- Oldham 020 · E02001117
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
- 23
- Primary
- 19
- Secondary
- 3
- 601 m
Saddleworth School
Academy converter
- 613 m
St Chad's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.3 km
Greenfield Primary School
Community school
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 6 residents
- 2,878
Age bands in OL3 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 12.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 15.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 30.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 33.6%
318 residents
221 residents
404 residents
779 residents
870 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
SADDLEWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
SMITHY LANE, UPPERMILL, OLDHAM, OL3 6AH
ODS code P85016
455 m
PIKE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MARKET PLACE, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 0HE
ODS code P89618
4.5 km
PENNINE MEDICAL CENTRE
193 MANCHESTER ROAD, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 9AJ
ODS code P89006
4.5 km
MOSSLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
187 MANCHESTER ROAD, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 9AB
ODS code P89612
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Commercial Hotel
BCT · Uppermill
- 0.3 miles
Hare & Hounds
BCT · Uppermill
- 0.3 miles
Commercial Hotel
BCT · Uppermill
- 0.3 miles
Hare & Hounds
BCT · Uppermill
- 0.3 miles
Uppermill Turning Area
BCT · Uppermill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oldham 020E, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,211 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
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.