Schools
131 open schools are in scope, including 90 primary and 18 secondary schools. The Limes School is the nearest published school at 475 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL7 9HT
Ashton Waterloo · Tameside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ashton Waterloo
- Local authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne
- Postcode district
- OL7
- Postcode sector
- OL7 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL7 9HT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1997
- Terminated
- 1 October 2004
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL7
- Postcode sector
- OL7 9
- Latitude
- 53.493960
- Longitude
- -2.111546
- British National Grid easting
- 392,697
- British National Grid northing
- 399,699
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Tameside · E08000008
- Electoral ward
- Ashton Waterloo · E05014521
- Parish or community
- E43000162
- Westminster constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne · E14001070
- Output area
- E00030189
- Lower layer super output area
- Tameside 005E · E01005959
- Middle layer super output area
- Tameside 005 · E02001233
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 OL7
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 131
- Primary
- 90
- Secondary
- 18
- 475 m
The Limes School
Other independent special school
- 722 m
Waterloo Primary School
Academy converter
- 781 m
Holy Trinity CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
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
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OL7 9 residents
- 11,406
Age bands in OL7 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 19%
2,201 residents
1,179 residents
2,847 residents
2,987 residents
2,158 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
41
within 5 km straight-line
WATERLOO MEDICAL CENTRE
1 DUNKERLEY STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 9EJ
ODS code P89613
739 m
ASHTON GP SERVICE
ASHTON PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 193 OLD STREET, ASHTON UNDER LYNE, OL6 7SR
ODS code Y02586
1.2 km
WEST END MEDICAL CENTRE
98-102 STOCKPORT ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 0LH
ODS code P89030
1.5 km
ASHTON MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6EW
ODS code P89008
1.6 km
ALBION MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 ALBION STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6HF
ODS code P89003
1.6 km
HT PRACTICE
156 STOCKPORT ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 0NW
ODS code P89020
1.7 km
KING STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
96-98 KING STREET, DUKINFIELD, SK16 4JZ
ODS code P89022
2.1 km
TOWN HALL SURGERY
112 KING STREET, DUKINFIELD, SK16 4LD
ODS code P89025
2.1 km
STAMFORD HOUSE
2 PRINCESS STREET, ASHTON UNDER LYNE, OL6 9QH
ODS code P89609
2.2 km
GORDON STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
171 MOSSLEY ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6NE
ODS code P89011
2.2 km
DROYLSDEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-3 ALBION DRIVE, DROYLSDEN, MANCHESTER, M43 7NP
ODS code Y02663
2.4 km
GUIDE BRIDGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
GUIDE LANE, AUDENSHAW, MANCHESTER, M34 5HY
ODS code Y02713
2.5 km
MEDLOCK VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
58 ASHTON ROAD, DROYLSDEN, MANCHESTER, M43 7BW
ODS code P89010
2.6 km
DUKINFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
20 CONCORD WAY, DUKINFIELD, SK16 4DB
ODS code P89021
2.7 km
MARKET STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
76 MARKET STREET, DROYLSDEN, MANCHESTER, M43 6DE
ODS code P89029
2.8 km
HILL TOP SURGERY
HILLTOP SURGERY, FITTON HILL NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, FIRCROFT ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 2QD
ODS code Y02753
3.0 km
HOLLINWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 CLIVE STREET, OLDHAM, OL8 3TR
ODS code Y02933
3.3 km
MEDLOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
KEPPEL BUILDING, FAILSWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, ASHTON ROAD WEST, MANCHESTER, M35 0AD
ODS code P85610
3.5 km
QUAYSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ASHTON ROAD WEST, MANCHESTER, M35 0AD
ODS code P85026
3.5 km
OLDHAM MEDICAL SERVICES
LANGHAM HOUSE, 368 ASHTON ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 3HF
ODS code P85012
3.5 km
Showing 20 of 41 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sports Village
BCT · Crowhill
- 0.1 miles
Windsor Drive
BCT · Crowhill
- 0.1 miles
Sports Village
BCT · Crowhill
- 0.1 miles
Windsor Drive
BCT · Crowhill
- 0.1 miles
Windermere Crescent
BCT · Crowhill
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tameside 005E, 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
5,013 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
- 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.
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.