Property market
The five-year median is £280,000 from 3 recorded sales in OL6 8UR. 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 8UR
Ashton Hurst · Tameside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ashton-Under-Lyne
- Ward
- Ashton Hurst
- Local authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne
- Postcode district
- OL6
- Postcode sector
- OL6 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL6 8UR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL6
- Postcode sector
- OL6 8
- Latitude
- 53.507966
- Longitude
- -2.088000
- British National Grid easting
- 394,261
- British National Grid northing
- 401,255
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Tameside · E08000008
- Electoral ward
- Ashton Hurst · E05014519
- Parish or community
- E43000162
- Westminster constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne · E14001070
- Output area
- E00030058
- Lower layer super output area
- Tameside 002B · E01005939
- Middle layer super output area
- Tameside 002 · E02001230
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
27 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 127, St Albans Avenue, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 8UR | 15 September 2025 | £280,000 |
| 98, St Albans Avenue, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 8UR | 7 June 2022 | £232,500 |
| 117, St Albans Avenue, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL6 8UR | 12 April 2022 | £310,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 133
- Primary
- 93
- Secondary
- 15
- 340 m
Holden Clough Primary School
Academy converter
- 405 m
Samuel Laycock School
Academy special sponsor led
- 479 m
Dixons Ashton Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 52
- Postcode households
- 22
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- OL6 8 residents
- 11,366
20 female, 32 male
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
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OL6 8 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- 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
47
within 5 km
WATERLOO MEDICAL CENTRE
1 DUNKERLEY STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 9EJ
ODS code P89613
1.5 km
HILL TOP SURGERY
HILLTOP SURGERY, FITTON HILL NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, FIRCROFT ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 2QD
ODS code Y02753
1.6 km
STAMFORD HOUSE
2 PRINCESS STREET, ASHTON UNDER LYNE, OL6 9QH
ODS code P89609
1.7 km
GORDON STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
171 MOSSLEY ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6NE
ODS code P89011
1.8 km
ALBION MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 ALBION STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6HF
ODS code P89003
2.0 km
ASHTON MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6EW
ODS code P89008
2.1 km
OLDHAM MEDICAL SERVICES
LANGHAM HOUSE, 368 ASHTON ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 3HF
ODS code P85012
2.5 km
ASHTON GP SERVICE
ASHTON PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 193 OLD STREET, ASHTON UNDER LYNE, OL6 7SR
ODS code Y02586
2.6 km
PIKE MEDICAL PRACTICE
MARKET PLACE, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 0HE
ODS code P89618
3.0 km
HOLLINWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 CLIVE STREET, OLDHAM, OL8 3TR
ODS code Y02933
3.1 km
MOSSLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
187 MANCHESTER ROAD, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 9AB
ODS code P89612
3.2 km
ST. ANDREW'S HOUSE SURGERY
STALYBRIDGE RESOURCE CENTRE, THE OLD SCH,2 WATERLOO RD, STALYBRIDGE, SK15 2AU
ODS code P89023
3.2 km
PENNINE MEDICAL CENTRE
193 MANCHESTER ROAD, MOSSLEY, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL5 9AJ
ODS code P89006
3.2 km
STAVELEIGH MEDICAL CENTRE
KING STREET, STALYBRIDGE, SK15 2AE
ODS code P89007
3.3 km
WEST END MEDICAL CENTRE
98-102 STOCKPORT ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 0LH
ODS code P89030
3.3 km
KING STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
96-98 KING STREET, DUKINFIELD, SK16 4JZ
ODS code P89022
3.3 km
TOWN HALL SURGERY
112 KING STREET, DUKINFIELD, SK16 4LD
ODS code P89025
3.3 km
ALEXANDRA GROUP MED PRACT
137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85015
3.4 km
GLODWICK MEDICAL PRACTICE
GLODWICK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85622
3.4 km
GREENBANK MEDICAL PRACTICE
NUGGET STREET, OLDHAM, OL4 1BN
ODS code P85021
3.4 km
Showing 20 of 47 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
- 0.0 miles
Newstead Avenue
BCT · Hartshead
- 0.1 miles
Carlisle Crescent
BCT · Hartshead
- 0.1 miles
Newstead Avenue
BCT · Hartshead
- 0.1 miles
Carlisle Crescent
BCT · Hartshead
- 0.2 miles
Bristol Avenue
BCT · Hartshead
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tameside 002B, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
16,774 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
- 1
- 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
133 open schools are in scope, including 93 primary and 15 secondary schools. Holden Clough Primary School is the nearest published school at 340 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.