Schools
125 open schools are in scope, including 83 primary and 16 secondary schools. Westwood Boys School is the nearest published school at 273 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL4 1SU
St Mary's · Oldham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- St Mary's
- Local authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth
- Postcode district
- OL4
- Postcode sector
- OL4 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL4 1SU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 June 1996
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL4
- Postcode sector
- OL4 1
- Latitude
- 53.538914
- Longitude
- -2.108600
- British National Grid easting
- 392,900
- British National Grid northing
- 404,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Oldham · E08000004
- Electoral ward
- St Mary's · E05014663
- Parish or community
- E43000158
- Westminster constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth · E14001415
- Output area
- E00027524
- Lower layer super output area
- Oldham 024B · E01005434
- Middle layer super output area
- Oldham 024 · E02001121
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 OL4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 125
- Primary
- 83
- Secondary
- 16
- 273 m
Westwood Boys School
Other independent school
- 305 m
Greenhill Academy
Academy converter
- 341 m
The Springboard Project
Free schools special
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 7
- Other theft 3
- Drugs 1
- Other crime 1
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OL4 1 residents
- 14,111
Age bands in OL4 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 28.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 17.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 16.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 6.4%
3,971 residents
2,449 residents
4,236 residents
2,302 residents
893 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
33
within 5 km straight-line
ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTRE
ROCK STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 3UL
ODS code P85002
526 m
JOHN STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 JOHN STREET, OLDHAM, OL8 1DF
ODS code Y02827
728 m
JALAL PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85601
779 m
LINDLEY HOUSE HEALTH CENTRE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code Y02875
779 m
OLDHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
1ST FLOOR INTEGRATED C C, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85007
779 m
PERKINS PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85608
779 m
THE CHOWDHURY PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85003
779 m
GREENBANK MEDICAL PRACTICE
NUGGET STREET, OLDHAM, OL4 1BN
ODS code P85021
831 m
ALEXANDRA GROUP MED PRACT
137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85015
904 m
GLODWICK MEDICAL PRACTICE
GLODWICK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85622
904 m
HOPWOOD HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HOPWOOD HOUSE, THE VINEYARD, LEES ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1JN
ODS code P85014
941 m
KAPUR FAMILY CARE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85615
1.5 km
MD FAMILY PRACTICE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85018
1.5 km
WERNETH MEDICAL PRACTICE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85612
1.5 km
OLDHAM MEDICAL SERVICES
LANGHAM HOUSE, 368 ASHTON ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 3HF
ODS code P85012
1.5 km
LITTLETOWN FAMILY MED PRACT
53 MANCHESTER ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 4LR
ODS code P85605
2.0 km
SPRINGFIELD HOUSE
275 HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 2RJ
ODS code P85020
2.0 km
HILL TOP SURGERY
HILLTOP SURGERY, FITTON HILL NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, FIRCROFT ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 2QD
ODS code Y02753
2.2 km
LEES MEDICAL PRACTICE
ATHENS WAY, LEES, OLDHAM, OL4 3BP
ODS code P85022
2.2 km
HOLLINWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 CLIVE STREET, OLDHAM, OL8 3TR
ODS code Y02933
2.3 km
Showing 20 of 33 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Union Street
BCT · Oldham
- 0.1 miles
Churchill Street
BCT · Oldham
- 0.2 miles
Oldham Central (Manchester Metrolink)
TMU · Oldham
- 0.2 miles
Oldham Central (Manchester Metrolink)
PLT · Oldham
- 0.2 miles
The Link Centre
BCT · Oldham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oldham 024B, 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
1 of 10
Overall England rank
39 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 1 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
13 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 7 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.