Property market
The five-year median is £300,000 from 9 recorded sales in OL6 8FB. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Tameside is £211,304 in June 2026, up 2.2% year on year.
OL6 8FB
Ashton St Michael's · Tameside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ashton-Under-Lyne
- Ward
- Ashton St Michael's
- Local authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne
- Postcode district
- OL6
- Postcode sector
- OL6 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL6 8FB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 September 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL6
- Postcode sector
- OL6 8
- Latitude
- 53.497233
- Longitude
- -2.076522
- British National Grid easting
- 395,021
- British National Grid northing
- 400,060
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
- E00030107
- Lower layer super output area
- Tameside 004C · E01005945
- Middle layer super output area
- Tameside 004 · E02001232
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
Property
9 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 8, Fern Lodge Drive, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 8FB | 12 December 2025 | £300,000 |
| 2, Fern Lodge Drive, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 8FB | 5 September 2025 | £290,000 |
| 1, Fern Lodge Drive, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 8FB | 5 September 2025 | £285,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 105
- Primary
- 74
- Secondary
- 14
- 529 m
Inspire Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 577 m
Ashton Sixth Form College
Academy 16-19 converter
- 645 m
Hurst Knoll St James' Church of England Primary School
Voluntary controlled 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 8 residents
- 11,366
Age bands in OL6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.9%
2,038 residents
1,204 residents
2,612 residents
2,654 residents
1,978 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
STAMFORD HOUSE
2 PRINCESS STREET, ASHTON UNDER LYNE, OL6 9QH
ODS code P89609
421 m
GORDON STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
171 MOSSLEY ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6NE
ODS code P89011
490 m
ALBION MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 ALBION STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6HF
ODS code P89003
1.2 km
ASHTON MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6EW
ODS code P89008
1.2 km
ST. ANDREW'S HOUSE SURGERY
STALYBRIDGE RESOURCE CENTRE, THE OLD SCH,2 WATERLOO RD, STALYBRIDGE, SK15 2AU
ODS code P89023
1.8 km
WATERLOO MEDICAL CENTRE
1 DUNKERLEY STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 9EJ
ODS code P89613
1.8 km
STAVELEIGH MEDICAL CENTRE
KING STREET, STALYBRIDGE, SK15 2AE
ODS code P89007
1.9 km
ASHTON GP SERVICE
ASHTON PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 193 OLD STREET, ASHTON UNDER LYNE, OL6 7SR
ODS code Y02586
2.0 km
GROSVENOR MEDICAL CENTRE
62 GROSVENOR STREET, STALYBRIDGE, SK15 1RZ
ODS code P89026
2.1 km
DUKINFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
20 CONCORD WAY, DUKINFIELD, SK16 4DB
ODS code P89021
2.3 km
KING STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
96-98 KING STREET, DUKINFIELD, SK16 4JZ
ODS code P89022
2.4 km
TOWN HALL SURGERY
112 KING STREET, DUKINFIELD, SK16 4LD
ODS code P89025
2.4 km
LOCKSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
85 HUDDERSFIELD ROAD, STALYBRIDGE, SK15 2PT
ODS code P89005
2.4 km
WEST END MEDICAL CENTRE
98-102 STOCKPORT ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 0LH
ODS code P89030
2.7 km
MILLBROOK MEDICAL PRACTICE
HOLLYBANK, OFF GROVE ROAD, STALYBRIDGE, SK15 3BJ
ODS code Y02936
2.9 km
HILL TOP SURGERY
HILLTOP SURGERY, FITTON HILL NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, FIRCROFT ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 2QD
ODS code Y02753
3.0 km
MOSSLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
187 MANCHESTER ROAD, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 9AB
ODS code P89612
3.0 km
PIKE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MARKET PLACE, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 0HE
ODS code P89618
3.1 km
HT PRACTICE
156 STOCKPORT ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 0NW
ODS code P89020
3.1 km
PENNINE MEDICAL CENTRE
193 MANCHESTER ROAD, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 9AJ
ODS code P89006
3.1 km
Showing 20 of 33 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
Palace Road
BCT · Hurst
- 0.1 miles
Mackeson Road
BCT · Hurst
- 0.1 miles
Palace Road
BCT · Hurst
- 0.1 miles
Mackeson Road
BCT · Hurst
- 0.1 miles
Alexandra Street
BCT · Hurst
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tameside 004C, 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
2,859 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 of 10
- Education and skills
- 2 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
Schools
105 open schools are in scope, including 74 primary and 14 secondary schools. Inspire Academy is the nearest published school at 529 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
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.