Schools
103 open schools are in scope, including 74 primary and 14 secondary schools. Tameside College is the nearest published school at 552 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL6 6WA
Ashton St Michael's · Tameside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ashton St Michael's
- Local authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne
- Postcode district
- OL6
- Postcode sector
- OL6 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL6 6WA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL6
- Postcode sector
- OL6 6
- Latitude
- 53.483210
- Longitude
- -2.078321
- British National Grid easting
- 394,900
- British National Grid northing
- 398,500
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Tameside · E08000008
- Electoral ward
- Ashton St Michael's · E05014520
- Parish or community
- E43000162
- Westminster constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne · E14001070
- Output area
- E00030103
- Lower layer super output area
- Tameside 007C · E01005943
- Middle layer super output area
- Tameside 007 · E02001235
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 OL6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 103
- Primary
- 74
- Secondary
- 14
- 552 m
Tameside College
Further education
- 678 m
Parochial CofE Primary and Nursery School, Ashton-under-Lyne
Academy converter
- 775 m
Stansfield House
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 9
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 7
- Public order 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OL6 6 residents
- 5,421
Age bands in OL6 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.8%
912 residents
605 residents
1,545 residents
1,431 residents
843 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
31
within 5 km straight-line
DUKINFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
20 CONCORD WAY, DUKINFIELD, SK16 4DB
ODS code P89021
814 m
ALBION MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 ALBION STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6HF
ODS code P89003
982 m
ASHTON MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6EW
ODS code P89008
989 m
GORDON STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
171 MOSSLEY ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6NE
ODS code P89011
1.1 km
TOWN HALL SURGERY
112 KING STREET, DUKINFIELD, SK16 4LD
ODS code P89025
1.1 km
KING STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
96-98 KING STREET, DUKINFIELD, SK16 4JZ
ODS code P89022
1.1 km
STAMFORD HOUSE
2 PRINCESS STREET, ASHTON UNDER LYNE, OL6 9QH
ODS code P89609
1.2 km
ST. ANDREW'S HOUSE SURGERY
STALYBRIDGE RESOURCE CENTRE, THE OLD SCH,2 WATERLOO RD, STALYBRIDGE, SK15 2AU
ODS code P89023
1.3 km
GROSVENOR MEDICAL CENTRE
62 GROSVENOR STREET, STALYBRIDGE, SK15 1RZ
ODS code P89026
1.3 km
STAVELEIGH MEDICAL CENTRE
KING STREET, STALYBRIDGE, SK15 2AE
ODS code P89007
1.3 km
ASHTON GP SERVICE
ASHTON PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 193 OLD STREET, ASHTON UNDER LYNE, OL6 7SR
ODS code Y02586
1.5 km
WEST END MEDICAL CENTRE
98-102 STOCKPORT ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 0LH
ODS code P89030
2.0 km
LOCKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
85 HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, STALYBRIDGE, SK15 2PT
ODS code P89005
2.1 km
HT PRACTICE
156 STOCKPORT ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 0NW
ODS code P89020
2.2 km
WATERLOO MEDICAL CENTRE
1 DUNKERLEY STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 9EJ
ODS code P89613
2.4 km
GUIDE BRIDGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
GUIDE LANE, AUDENSHAW, MANCHESTER, M34 5HY
ODS code Y02713
2.7 km
MILLBROOK MEDICAL PRACTICE
HOLLYBANK, OFF GROVE ROAD, STALYBRIDGE, SK15 3BJ
ODS code Y02936
3.1 km
CLARENDON MEDICAL CENTRE
CLARENDON STREET, HYDE, SK14 2AQ
ODS code P89012
3.4 km
DONNEYBROOK MEDICAL CENTRE
CLARENDON STREET, HYDE, SK14 2AH
ODS code P89016
3.4 km
THE BROOKE SURGERY
20 MARKET STREET, HYDE, SK14 1AT
ODS code P89002
3.5 km
Showing 20 of 31 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Brierley Street
BCT · Dukinfield
- 0.2 miles
Brierley Street
BCT · Dukinfield
- 0.2 miles
Sandy Lane
BCT · Dukinfield
- 0.2 miles
Sandy Lane
BCT · Dukinfield
- 0.2 miles
Granville Street
BCT · Cockbrook
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tameside 007C, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
9,473 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
9 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.75 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.