Schools
137 open schools are in scope, including 90 primary and 18 secondary schools. Werneth Primary School is the nearest published school at 90 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL8 1XQ
Werneth · Oldham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Werneth
- Local authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton
- Postcode district
- OL8
- Postcode sector
- OL8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL8 1XQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1984
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL8
- Postcode sector
- OL8 1
- Latitude
- 53.531708
- Longitude
- -2.123668
- British National Grid easting
- 391,900
- British National Grid northing
- 403,900
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Oldham · E08000004
- Electoral ward
- Werneth · E05014665
- Parish or community
- E43000158
- Westminster constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton · E14001416
- Output area
- E00168611
- Lower layer super output area
- Oldham 037A · E01005461
- Middle layer super output area
- Oldham 037 · E02007001
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 OL8
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 137
- Primary
- 90
- Secondary
- 18
- 90 m
Werneth Primary School
Academy converter
- 243 m
Coppice Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 256 m
Hulme Grammar School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 3
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Drugs 1
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- OL8 1 residents
- 12,535
Age bands in OL8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 28.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 17.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 16.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 7.4%
3,562 residents
2,267 residents
3,771 residents
2,139 residents
944 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
34
within 5 km straight-line
LITTLETOWN FAMILY MED PRACT
53 MANCHESTER ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 4LR
ODS code P85605
760 m
KAPUR FAMILY CARE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85615
772 m
MD FAMILY PRACTICE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85018
772 m
WERNETH MEDICAL PRACTICE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85612
772 m
JOHN STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 JOHN STREET, OLDHAM, OL8 1DF
ODS code Y02827
1.0 km
OLDHAM MEDICAL SERVICES
LANGHAM HOUSE, 368 ASHTON ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 3HF
ODS code P85012
1.1 km
HOLLINWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 CLIVE STREET, OLDHAM, OL8 3TR
ODS code Y02933
1.1 km
JALAL PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85601
1.4 km
LINDLEY HOUSE HEALTH CENTRE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code Y02875
1.4 km
OLDHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
1ST FLOOR INTEGRATED C C, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85007
1.4 km
PERKINS PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85608
1.4 km
THE CHOWDHURY PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85003
1.4 km
CH MEDICAL PRACTICE
FIELDS NEW RD P-CARE CTR, FIELDS NEW RD, CHADDERTON, OLDHAM, OL9 8NH
ODS code P85011
1.4 km
ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTRE
ROCK STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 3UL
ODS code P85002
1.7 km
GREENBANK MEDICAL PRACTICE
NUGGET STREET, OLDHAM, OL4 1BN
ODS code P85021
2.0 km
CHADDERTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
MIDDLETON ROAD, CHADDERTON, OLDHAM, OL9 0LH
ODS code P85004
2.0 km
WOODLANDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHADDERTON TOWN HEALTH CENTRE, MIDDLETON ROAD, CHADDERTON, OLDHAM, OL9 0LH
ODS code P85010
2.0 km
HILL TOP SURGERY
HILLTOP SURGERY, FITTON HILL NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, FIRCROFT ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 2QD
ODS code Y02753
2.0 km
ALEXANDRA GROUP MED PRACT
137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85015
2.0 km
GLODWICK MEDICAL PRACTICE
GLODWICK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85622
2.0 km
Showing 20 of 34 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Windsor Road
BCT · Coppice
- 0.1 miles
Clarence Avenue
BCT · Coppice
- 0.1 miles
Coppice Street
BCT · Coppice
- 0.1 miles
Wellington Road
BCT · Coppice
- 0.1 miles
Frederick Street
BCT · Coppice
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oldham 037A, 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
3,274 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
8 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.