Schools
139 open schools are in scope, including 91 primary and 17 secondary schools. Laurus Ryecroft is the nearest published school at 782 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL7 9JZ
Droylsden East · Tameside · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Ashton-Under-Lyne
- Ward
- Droylsden East
- Local authority
- Tameside
- Constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne
- Postcode district
- OL7
- Postcode sector
- OL7 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL7 9JZ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL7
- Postcode sector
- OL7 9
- Latitude
- 53.494767
- Longitude
- -2.122476
- British National Grid easting
- 391,972
- British National Grid northing
- 399,790
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Tameside · E08000008
- Electoral ward
- Droylsden East · E05014526
- Parish or community
- E43000162
- Westminster constituency
- Ashton-under-Lyne · E14001070
- Output area
- E00030394
- Lower layer super output area
- Tameside 010B · E01005995
- Middle layer super output area
- Tameside 010 · E02001238
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
Property
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Morningside, Back Lane, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL7 9JZ | 30 June 2021 | £559,500 |
| Lyndene, Back Lane, Ashton-Under-Lyne, OL7 9JZ | 16 July 2017 | £449,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 139
- Primary
- 91
- Secondary
- 17
- 782 m
Laurus Ryecroft
Free schools
- 1.2 km
The Limes School
Other independent special school
- 1.2 km
Waterloo Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Anti social behaviour 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 9.0
- OL7 9 residents
- 11,406
2 female, 7 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OL7 9 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+
- 33.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 33.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 33.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 33.3%
- 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
39
within 5 km straight-line
WATERLOO MEDICAL CENTRE
1 DUNKERLEY STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 9EJ
ODS code P89613
1.3 km
DROYLSDEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
1-3 ALBION DRIVE, DROYLSDEN, MANCHESTER, M43 7NP
ODS code Y02663
1.8 km
ASHTON GP SERVICE
ASHTON PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 193 OLD STREET, ASHTON UNDER LYNE, OL6 7SR
ODS code Y02586
1.8 km
WEST END MEDICAL CENTRE
98-102 STOCKPORT ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 0LH
ODS code P89030
1.8 km
HT PRACTICE
156 STOCKPORT ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 0NW
ODS code P89020
2.0 km
MEDLOCK VALE MEDICAL PRACTICE
58 ASHTON ROAD, DROYLSDEN, MANCHESTER, M43 7BW
ODS code P89010
2.2 km
ASHTON MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6EW
ODS code P89008
2.3 km
ALBION MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 ALBION STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6HF
ODS code P89003
2.3 km
MARKET STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
76 MARKET STREET, DROYLSDEN, MANCHESTER, M43 6DE
ODS code P89029
2.3 km
KING STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
96-98 KING STREET, DUKINFIELD, SK16 4JZ
ODS code P89022
2.6 km
GUIDE BRIDGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
GUIDE LANE, AUDENSHAW, MANCHESTER, M34 5HY
ODS code Y02713
2.6 km
TOWN HALL SURGERY
112 KING STREET, DUKINFIELD, SK16 4LD
ODS code P89025
2.7 km
MEDLOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
KEPPEL BUILDING, FAILSWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, ASHTON ROAD WEST, MANCHESTER, M35 0AD
ODS code P85610
2.8 km
QUAYSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ASHTON ROAD WEST, MANCHESTER, M35 0AD
ODS code P85026
2.8 km
STAMFORD HOUSE
2 PRINCESS STREET, ASHTON UNDER LYNE, OL6 9QH
ODS code P89609
2.9 km
GORDON STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
171 MOSSLEY ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6NE
ODS code P89011
3.0 km
HOLLINWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 CLIVE STREET, OLDHAM, OL8 3TR
ODS code Y02933
3.1 km
HILL TOP SURGERY
HILLTOP SURGERY, FITTON HILL NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, FIRCROFT ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 2QD
ODS code Y02753
3.2 km
DUKINFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
20 CONCORD WAY, DUKINFIELD, SK16 4DB
ODS code P89021
3.3 km
OLDHAM MEDICAL SERVICES
LANGHAM HOUSE, 368 ASHTON ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 3HF
ODS code P85012
3.5 km
Showing 20 of 39 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Howarth Farm Road
BCT · Littlemoss
- 0.2 miles
Howarth Farm Road
BCT · Littlemoss
- 0.2 miles
Back Lane
BCT · Daisy Nook
- 0.2 miles
Back Lane
BCT · Daisy Nook
- 0.3 miles
Laurus Ryecroft
BCT · Littlemoss
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Tameside 010B, 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
27,523 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
Recorded crime
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.