Property market
The five-year median is £189,000 from 11 recorded sales in OL8 3JA. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Oldham is £214,850 in June 2026, up 5.1% year on year.
OL8 3JA
Medlock Vale · Oldham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Oldham
- Ward
- Medlock Vale
- Local authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton
- Postcode district
- OL8
- Postcode sector
- OL8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL8 3JA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL8
- Postcode sector
- OL8 3
- Latitude
- 53.511101
- Longitude
- -2.111244
- British National Grid easting
- 392,720
- British National Grid northing
- 401,606
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Oldham · E08000004
- Electoral ward
- Medlock Vale · E05014655
- Parish or community
- E43000158
- Westminster constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton · E14001416
- Output area
- E00027517
- Lower layer super output area
- Oldham 033D · E01005440
- Middle layer super output area
- Oldham 033 · E02001130
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
Property
44 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 68, Knott Lanes, Oldham, OL8 3JA | 19 September 2025 | £255,000 |
| 22, Knott Lanes, Oldham, OL8 3JA | 27 August 2025 | £180,000 |
| 70, Knott Lanes, Oldham, OL8 3JA | 14 February 2025 | £243,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 148
- Primary
- 99
- Secondary
- 17
- 955 m
Limehurst Community Primary School
Community school
- 1.0 km
Holy Family RC Primary School
Academy sponsor led
- 1.1 km
Holy Rosary RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 6
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 102
- Postcode households
- 44
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- OL8 3 residents
- 11,372
57 female, 45 male
Age bands in OL8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 24.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 22.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.3%
2,798 residents
1,391 residents
3,134 residents
2,543 residents
1,512 residents
This postcode contained 0.9% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OL8 3 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
50
within 5 km straight-line
HILL TOP SURGERY
HILLTOP SURGERY, FITTON HILL NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE, FIRCROFT ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 2QD
ODS code Y02753
1.2 km
WATERLOO MEDICAL CENTRE
1 DUNKERLEY STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL7 9EJ
ODS code P89613
1.5 km
OLDHAM MEDICAL SERVICES
LANGHAM HOUSE, 368 ASHTON ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 3HF
ODS code P85012
1.6 km
HOLLINWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 CLIVE STREET, OLDHAM, OL8 3TR
ODS code Y02933
1.6 km
LITTLETOWN FAMILY MED PRACT
53 MANCHESTER ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 4LR
ODS code P85605
2.5 km
ASHTON MEDICAL GROUP
CHAPEL STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6EW
ODS code P89008
2.8 km
ALBION MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 ALBION STREET, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6HF
ODS code P89003
2.8 km
STAMFORD HOUSE
2 PRINCESS STREET, ASHTON UNDER LYNE, OL6 9QH
ODS code P89609
2.9 km
ASHTON GP SERVICE
ASHTON PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 193 OLD STREET, ASHTON UNDER LYNE, OL6 7SR
ODS code Y02586
2.9 km
GORDON STREET MEDICAL CENTRE
171 MOSSLEY ROAD, ASHTON-UNDER-LYNE, OL6 6NE
ODS code P89011
3.0 km
MEDLOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
KEPPEL BUILDING, FAILSWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, ASHTON ROAD WEST, MANCHESTER, M35 0AD
ODS code P85610
3.0 km
QUAYSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ASHTON ROAD WEST, MANCHESTER, M35 0AD
ODS code P85026
3.0 km
GREENBANK MEDICAL PRACTICE
NUGGET STREET, OLDHAM, OL4 1BN
ODS code P85021
3.2 km
ALEXANDRA GROUP MED PRACT
137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85015
3.2 km
GLODWICK MEDICAL PRACTICE
GLODWICK PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, 137 GLODWICK ROAD, OLDHAM, OL4 1YN
ODS code P85622
3.2 km
KAPUR FAMILY CARE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85615
3.2 km
MD FAMILY PRACTICE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85018
3.2 km
WERNETH MEDICAL PRACTICE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85612
3.2 km
JOHN STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 JOHN STREET, OLDHAM, OL8 1DF
ODS code Y02827
3.3 km
CH MEDICAL PRACTICE
FIELDS NEW RD P-CARE CTR, FIELDS NEW RD, CHADDERTON, OLDHAM, OL9 8NH
ODS code P85011
3.3 km
Showing 20 of 50 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Victoria Street
BCT · Bardsley
- 0.2 miles
Victoria Street
BCT · Bardsley
- 0.3 miles
Keb Lane
BCT · Bardsley
- 0.3 miles
Oldham Road
BCT · Bardsley
- 0.3 miles
Keb Lane
BCT · Bardsley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oldham 033D, 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
6,708 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 2
- 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
148 open schools are in scope, including 99 primary and 17 secondary schools. Limehurst Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 955 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 6 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.