Schools
107 open schools are in scope, including 75 primary and 13 secondary schools. Waterhead Academy is the nearest published school at 510 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL4 3FA
Waterhead · Oldham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Waterhead
- Local authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth
- Postcode district
- OL4
- Postcode sector
- OL4 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL4 3FA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1994
- Terminated
- 1 July 1995
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL4
- Postcode sector
- OL4 3
- Latitude
- 53.547029
- Longitude
- -2.075419
- British National Grid easting
- 395,100
- British National Grid northing
- 405,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Oldham · E08000004
- Electoral ward
- Waterhead · E05014664
- Parish or community
- E43000158
- Westminster constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth · E14001415
- Output area
- E00027612
- Lower layer super output area
- Oldham 012B · E01005449
- Middle layer super output area
- Oldham 012 · E02001109
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
- 107
- Primary
- 75
- Secondary
- 13
- 510 m
Waterhead Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 550 m
Hey-with-Zion Primary School
Academy converter
- 613 m
St Edwards Roman Catholic Primary, a Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OL4 3 residents
- 6,503
Age bands in OL4 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.1%
1,661 residents
791 residents
2,094 residents
1,817 residents
1,221 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
SPRINGFIELD HOUSE
275 HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 2RJ
ODS code P85020
528 m
LEES MEDICAL PRACTICE
ATHENS WAY, LEES, OLDHAM, OL4 3BP
ODS code P85022
750 m
LEESBROOK SURGERY
MELLOR STREET, LEES, OLDHAM, OL4 3DG
ODS code P85005
933 m
HOPWOOD HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HOPWOOD HOUSE, THE VINEYARD, LEES ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1JN
ODS code P85014
1.4 km
MOORSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MOORSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE, 681 RIPPONDEN ROAD, MOORSIDE, OLDHAM, OL1 4JU
ODS code P85606
1.6 km
ALEXANDRA GROUP MED PRACT
137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85015
1.7 km
GLODWICK MEDICAL PRACTICE
GLODWICK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85622
1.7 km
GREENBANK MEDICAL PRACTICE
NUGGET STREET, OLDHAM, OL4 1BN
ODS code P85021
1.7 km
ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTRE
ROCK STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 3UL
ODS code P85002
2.2 km
JALAL PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85601
2.8 km
LINDLEY HOUSE HEALTH CENTRE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code Y02875
2.8 km
OLDHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
1ST FLOOR INTEGRATED C C, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85007
2.8 km
PERKINS PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85608
2.8 km
THE CHOWDHURY PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85003
2.8 km
JOHN STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 JOHN STREET, OLDHAM, OL8 1DF
ODS code Y02827
3.0 km
OLDHAM MEDICAL SERVICES
LANGHAM HOUSE, 368 ASHTON ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 3HF
ODS code P85012
3.4 km
HILL TOP SURGERY
HILLTOP SURGERY, FITTON HILL NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, FIRCROFT ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 2QD
ODS code Y02753
3.4 km
THE ROYTON & CROMPTON FAMILY PRACTICE
ROYTON HEALTH WELLBEING CENTRE, PARK STREET, ROYTON, OLDHAM, OL2 6QW
ODS code P85013
3.7 km
PIKE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MARKET PLACE, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 0HE
ODS code P89618
3.8 km
KAPUR FAMILY CARE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85615
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 33 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Cotton Tree Close
BCT · Top of Moor
- 0.1 miles
Cotton Tree Close
BCT · Top of Moor
- 0.1 miles
Bulls Head
BCT · Waterhead
- 0.1 miles
Bulls Head
BCT · Waterhead
- 0.2 miles
Sycamore Avenue
BCT · Top of Moor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oldham 012B, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
3,982 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 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.