Property market
The five-year median is £620,000 from 2 recorded sales in OL4 5RB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Oldham is £214,850 in June 2026, up 5.1% year on year.
OL4 5RB
Saddleworth West & Lees · Oldham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Oldham
- Local authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth
- Postcode district
- OL4
- Postcode sector
- OL4 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL4 5RB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL4
- Postcode sector
- OL4 5
- Latitude
- 53.535331
- Longitude
- -2.051318
- British National Grid easting
- 396,696
- British National Grid northing
- 404,297
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Oldham · E08000004
- Electoral ward
- Saddleworth West & Lees · E05014660
- Parish or community
- E04000005
- Westminster constituency
- Oldham East and Saddleworth · E14001415
- Output area
- E00027419
- Lower layer super output area
- Oldham 021B · E01005413
- Middle layer super output area
- Oldham 021 · E02001118
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
Property
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 9, Marsham Close, Grotton, Oldham, OL4 5RB | 10 April 2026 | £740,000 |
| 5, Marsham Close, Grotton, Oldham, OL4 5RB | 17 December 2021 | £500,000 |
| 9, Marsham Close, Grotton, Oldham, OL4 5RB | 18 November 2020 | £649,250 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 82
- Primary
- 61
- Secondary
- 9
- 760 m
St Agnes CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 867 m
St Anne's CofE Lydgate Primary School
Academy converter
- 878 m
Springhead Infant and Nursery School
Community school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 27
- Postcode households
- 10
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- OL4 5 residents
- 9,337
13 female, 14 male
Age bands in OL4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.3%
1,982 residents
933 residents
2,299 residents
2,139 residents
1,538 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OL4 5 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+
- 90%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 90%
- Gigabit-capable
- 90%
- 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
23
within 5 km
LEESBROOK SURGERY
MELLOR STREET, LEES, OLDHAM, OL4 3DG
ODS code P85005
1.5 km
LEES MEDICAL PRACTICE
ATHENS WAY, LEES, OLDHAM, OL4 3BP
ODS code P85022
1.7 km
PIKE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MARKET PLACE, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 0HE
ODS code P89618
2.0 km
PENNINE MEDICAL CENTRE
193 MANCHESTER ROAD, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 9AJ
ODS code P89006
2.3 km
MOSSLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
187 MANCHESTER ROAD, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 9AB
ODS code P89612
2.5 km
SPRINGFIELD HOUSE
275 HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 2RJ
ODS code P85020
2.6 km
ALEXANDRA GROUP MED PRACT
137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85015
2.9 km
GLODWICK MEDICAL PRACTICE
GLODWICK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85622
2.9 km
GREENBANK MEDICAL PRACTICE
NUGGET STREET, OLDHAM, OL4 1BN
ODS code P85021
3.0 km
HOPWOOD HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
HOPWOOD HOUSE, THE VINEYARD, LEES ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1JN
ODS code P85014
3.0 km
MOORSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MOORSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE, 681 RIPPONDEN ROAD, MOORSIDE, OLDHAM, OL1 4JU
ODS code P85606
3.4 km
SADDLEWORTH MEDICAL PRACTICE
SMITHY LANE, UPPERMILL, OLDHAM, OL3 6AH
ODS code P85016
3.4 km
HILL TOP SURGERY
HILLTOP SURGERY, FITTON HILL NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, FIRCROFT ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 2QD
ODS code Y02753
3.7 km
ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTRE
ROCK STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 3UL
ODS code P85002
3.9 km
OLDHAM MEDICAL SERVICES
LANGHAM HOUSE, 368 ASHTON ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 3HF
ODS code P85012
4.1 km
JALAL PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85601
4.5 km
LINDLEY HOUSE HEALTH CENTRE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code Y02875
4.5 km
OLDHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
1ST FLOOR INTEGRATED C C, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85007
4.5 km
PERKINS PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85608
4.5 km
THE CHOWDHURY PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85003
4.5 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
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
Coverhill Road
BCT · Grotton
- 0.1 miles
Oldham Road
BCT · Grotton
- 0.1 miles
Oldham Road
BCT · Grotton
- 0.1 miles
Thornley Lane
BCT · Grotton
- 0.1 miles
Thornley Lane
BCT · Grotton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oldham 021B, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
29,109 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 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.
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
Schools
82 open schools are in scope, including 61 primary and 9 secondary schools. St Agnes CofE Primary School is the nearest published school at 760 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.