M2 postcode district: Manchester and around
M2 is a postcode district in England, with 213 postcodes in use in 7 sectors. It has postcodes in Manchester. Its council is Manchester.
- Postcodes in use
- 213
- Sectors
- 7
- Council
- Manchester
- Places
- Manchester
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Every postcode in M2, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 1
- Some can get gigabit: 20
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 169
- Ofcom gives no figure: 23
Of the 213 postcodes in M2 that ONS places, 1 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 20 have some that can, 169 can all get it and 23 have no Ofcom figure.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.4804, longitude -2.2445. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
Postcodes without gigabit
What broadband can you get in M2?
Ofcom reports on 190 of the 213 postcodes in M2. At 169 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is M2 at risk of flooding?
None of the 213 postcodes in M2 is on the Environment Agency's list of postcodes with a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
What do homes sell for in M2?
HM Land Registry records 2 sales of homes in M2 in the 12 months to September 2026: too few to give a typical price.
- Flat or maisonette 2 sales, too few to price
Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Postcodes in M2
Pick a sector, then a postcode. A sector is the district plus the next digit.
Places in M2
Towns and villages with postcodes in M2, and how many each has here.
Who covers M2
How many of the district's postcodes in use fall under each council, constituency and police force area.
Councils
- Manchester213
Constituencies
- Manchester Central213
Police force areas
- Greater Manchester213
Next to M2
"Next to" is by number: the districts before and after M2 in the M area.
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Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.
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