Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 22 primary and 3 secondary schools. Saddleworth School is the nearest published school at 427 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL3 6LS
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 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL3 6LS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL3
- Postcode sector
- OL3 6
- Latitude
- 53.552545
- Longitude
- -2.009831
- British National Grid easting
- 399,446
- British National Grid northing
- 406,211
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
- E00027405
- Lower layer super output area
- Oldham 013B · E01005412
- Middle layer super output area
- Oldham 013 · E02001110
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Woburn Abbey, Uppermill, Oldham, OL3 6LS | 27 March 2013 | £131,000 |
| 2, Woburn Abbey, Uppermill, Oldham, OL3 6LS | 4 April 2002 | £70,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 22
- Secondary
- 3
- 427 m
Saddleworth School
Academy converter
- 682 m
Holy Trinity CofE Dobcross Primary School
Academy converter
- 740 m
St Chad's Church of England Primary 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
- 3
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- OL3 6 residents
- 2,878
2 female, 1 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OL3 6 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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
8
within 5 km
SADDLEWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
SMITHY LANE, UPPERMILL, OLDHAM, OL3 6AH
ODS code P85016
568 m
LEESBROOK SURGERY
MELLOR STREET, LEES, OLDHAM, OL4 3DG
ODS code P85005
4.4 km
LEES MEDICAL PRACTICE
ATHENS WAY, LEES, OLDHAM, OL4 3BP
ODS code P85022
4.5 km
PIKE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MARKET PLACE, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 0HE
ODS code P89618
4.5 km
MOORSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MOORSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE, 681 RIPPONDEN ROAD, MOORSIDE, OLDHAM, OL1 4JU
ODS code P85606
4.6 km
PENNINE MEDICAL CENTRE
193 MANCHESTER ROAD, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 9AJ
ODS code P89006
4.6 km
MOSSLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
187 MANCHESTER ROAD, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 9AB
ODS code P89612
4.7 km
SPRINGFIELD HOUSE
275 HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 2RJ
ODS code P85020
4.8 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
Wool Road
BCT · Dobcross
- 0.1 miles
Wool Road
BCT · Dobcross
- 0.1 miles
Brownhill Centre
BCT · Uppermill
- 0.1 miles
Brownhill Centre
BCT · Dobcross
- 0.1 miles
Spiritualist Church
BCT · Uppermill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oldham 013B, 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
21,677 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- 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
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.