Schools
146 open schools are in scope, including 95 primary and 17 secondary schools. Chances Mentoring is the nearest published school at 277 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
OL9 8AA
Chadderton South · Oldham · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Oldham
- Ward
- Chadderton South
- Local authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton
- Postcode district
- OL9
- Postcode sector
- OL9 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- OL9 8AA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- OL
- Postcode district
- OL9
- Postcode sector
- OL9 8
- Latitude
- 53.531578
- Longitude
- -2.150702
- British National Grid easting
- 390,108
- British National Grid northing
- 403,889
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Oldham · E08000004
- Electoral ward
- Chadderton South · E05014649
- Parish or community
- E43000158
- Westminster constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton · E14001416
- Output area
- E00027079
- Lower layer super output area
- Oldham 028B · E01005341
- Middle layer super output area
- Oldham 028 · E02001125
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 OL9
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Selkirk Road, Chadderton, Oldham, OL9 8AA | 29 January 2016 | £108,000 |
| 1, Selkirk Road, Chadderton, Oldham, OL9 8AA | 12 November 2009 | £110,000 |
| 1, Selkirk Road, Chadderton, Oldham, OL9 8AA | 18 December 2002 | £65,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 146
- Primary
- 95
- Secondary
- 17
- 277 m
Chances Mentoring
Other independent special school
- 306 m
Kingfisher Special School
Academy special converter
- 349 m
Yew Tree Community School
Community school
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
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 4
- Postcode households
- 1
- Residents per household
- 4.0
- OL9 8 residents
- 9,621
1 female, 3 male
Age bands in OL9 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 14.7%
2,015 residents
1,146 residents
2,789 residents
2,415 residents
1,442 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider OL9 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
50
within 5 km
CH MEDICAL PRACTICE
FIELDS NEW RD P-CARE CTR, FIELDS NEW RD, CHADDERTON, OLDHAM, OL9 8NH
ODS code P85011
411 m
LITTLETOWN FAMILY MED PRACT
53 MANCHESTER ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 4LR
ODS code P85605
1.1 km
KAPUR FAMILY CARE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85615
1.5 km
MD FAMILY PRACTICE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85018
1.5 km
WERNETH MEDICAL PRACTICE
WERNETH PRIMARY CARE CENTRE, FEATHERSTALL ROAD SOUTH, OLDHAM, OL9 7AY
ODS code P85612
1.5 km
CHADDERTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
MIDDLETON ROAD, CHADDERTON, OLDHAM, OL9 0LH
ODS code P85004
1.7 km
WOODLANDS MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHADDERTON TOWN HEALTH CENTRE, MIDDLETON ROAD, CHADDERTON, OLDHAM, OL9 0LH
ODS code P85010
1.7 km
HAZELDENE MEDICAL CENTRE
97 MOSTON LANE EAST, NEW MOSTON, MANCHESTER, M40 3HD
ODS code P84067
1.9 km
HOLLINWOOD MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 CLIVE STREET, OLDHAM, OL8 3TR
ODS code Y02933
1.9 km
THE JUNCTION SURGERY
346 GRIMSHAW LANE, MIDDLETON, MIDDLETON JUNCTION, MANCHESTER, M24 2AU
ODS code P86010
2.0 km
JOHN STREET MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 JOHN STREET, OLDHAM, OL8 1DF
ODS code Y02827
2.3 km
MEDLOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
KEPPEL BUILDING, FAILSWORTH HEALTH CENTRE, ASHTON ROAD WEST, MANCHESTER, M35 0AD
ODS code P85610
2.5 km
QUAYSIDE MEDICAL PRACTICE
ASHTON ROAD WEST, MANCHESTER, M35 0AD
ODS code P85026
2.5 km
CHARLESTOWN MD
CHARLESTOWN ROAD, BLACKLEY, MANCHESTER, M9 7ED
ODS code Y02325
2.6 km
JALAL PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85601
2.6 km
LINDLEY HOUSE HEALTH CENTRE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code Y02875
2.6 km
OLDHAM FAMILY PRACTICE
1ST FLOOR INTEGRATED C C, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85007
2.6 km
PERKINS PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85608
2.6 km
THE CHOWDHURY PRACTICE
INTEGRATED CARE CENTRE, NEW RADCLIFFE STREET, OLDHAM, OL1 1NL
ODS code P85003
2.6 km
OLDHAM MEDICAL SERVICES
LANGHAM HOUSE, 368 ASHTON ROAD, OLDHAM, OL8 3HF
ODS code P85012
2.7 km
Showing 20 of 50 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Whitegate Lane
BCT · Butler Green
- 0.1 miles
Whitegate Lane
BCT · Butler Green
- 0.1 miles
The Sportsman
BCT · Nimble Nook
- 0.1 miles
The Sportsman
BCT · Nimble Nook
- 0.2 miles
The Sportsman
BCT · Nimble Nook
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Oldham 028B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,694 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
- 0
- 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
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.