Delph

Delph is covered by postcode district OL3. It is in the Oldham council area, England.

Typical price £257,500 Homes sold in Delph, last 12 months. ▼ 15.7% on the year before Gigabit broadband 59 of 86 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 25 of 86 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 128 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Schools 1 1 primary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in Delph, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Delph, by flood risk Of the 86 postcodes in Delph that ONS places, 14 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 6 are at low risk at worst and 61 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 14 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Delph. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A62A6052 OL3 5DA: not on the flood risk listOL3 5DP: not on the flood risk listOL3 5DR: not on the flood risk listOL3 5DS: not on the flood risk listOL3 5DX: not on the flood risk listOL3 5DY: not on the flood risk listOL3 5DZ: not on the flood risk listOL3 5EA: not on the flood risk listOL3 5EB: not on the flood risk listOL3 5ED: not on the flood risk listOL3 5EE: not on the flood risk listOL3 5EF: not on the flood risk listOL3 5EH: not on the flood risk listOL3 5EJ: not on the flood risk listOL3 5EL: not on the flood risk listOL3 5EN: not on the flood risk listOL3 5EP: not on the flood risk listOL3 5EQ: not on the flood risk listOL3 5ER: not on the flood risk listOL3 5ES: not on the flood risk listOL3 5EU: not on the flood risk listOL3 5EX: not on the flood risk listOL3 5EY: not on the flood risk listOL3 5EZ: not on the flood risk listOL3 5FX: not on the flood risk listOL3 5GF: not on the flood risk listOL3 5GG: not on the flood risk listOL3 5GN: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HA: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HB: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HD: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HE: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HF: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HG: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HH: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HJ: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HL: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HQ: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HR: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HT: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HU: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HX: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HY: not on the flood risk listOL3 5HZ: not on the flood risk listOL3 5JA: not on the flood risk listOL3 5JF: not on the flood risk listOL3 5QA: not on the flood risk listOL3 5QB: not on the flood risk listOL3 5QE: not on the flood risk listOL3 5QQ: not on the flood risk listOL3 5QZ: not on the flood risk listOL3 5RJ: not on the flood risk listOL3 5SZ: not on the flood risk listOL3 5TH: not on the flood risk listOL3 5TJ: not on the flood risk listOL3 5UP: not on the flood risk listOL3 5UR: not on the flood risk listOL3 5US: not on the flood risk listOL3 5UT: not on the flood risk listOL3 5UW: not on the flood risk listOL3 5UZ: not on the flood risk listOL3 5DF: low flood risk at worstOL3 5DN: low flood risk at worstOL3 5DQ: low flood risk at worstOL3 5FZ: low flood risk at worstOL3 5HN: low flood risk at worstOL3 5JE: low flood risk at worstOL3 5DB: medium flood risk at worstOL3 5EG: medium flood risk at worstOL3 5ET: medium flood risk at worstOL3 5JD: medium flood risk at worstOL3 5JG: medium flood risk at worstOL3 5BY: high flood riskOL3 5DE: high flood riskOL3 5DG: high flood riskOL3 5DH: high flood riskOL3 5DJ: high flood riskOL3 5DL: high flood riskOL3 5DT: high flood riskOL3 5DU: high flood riskOL3 5DW: high flood riskOL3 5EW: high flood riskOL3 5GE: high flood riskOL3 5HP: high flood riskOL3 5HW: high flood riskOL3 5JB: high flood risk Delph 14 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to OL3 5DH, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk14 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Delph, by flood risk Of the 86 postcodes in Delph that ONS places, 14 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 6 are at low risk at worst and 61 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 14 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Delph. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A62 Delph
  • A home or business at high risk: 14
  • At medium risk at worst: 5
  • At low risk at worst: 6
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 61
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 86 postcodes in Delph that ONS places, 14 have a home or business at high risk, 5 are at medium risk at worst, 6 are at low risk at worst and 61 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.5671, longitude -2.0226. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; flood risk: Environment Agency, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: 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. How we use them

The postcodes at high risk

14 postcodes here have a home or business at high risk. These are the 12 with the most homes and businesses at that risk.

Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.

OL3 5BY25 at high riskOL3 5DH10 at high riskOL3 5DT9 at high riskOL3 5EW6 at high riskOL3 5DU4 at high riskOL3 5HP3 at high riskOL3 5DG2 at high riskOL3 5DE1 at high riskOL3 5JB1 at high riskOL3 5DJ1 at high riskOL3 5DW1 at high riskOL3 5DL1 at high risk

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

  • 14 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. OL3 5DH, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.

What is it like to live in Delph?

Homes sold for a typical £257,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 15.7% on the 12 months before. At 59 of the 86 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 128 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 25 of its 86 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Saddleworth Medical Practice, 2.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Greenfield, 3.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says. See all our data sources

What do homes cost in Delph?

Homes in Delph sold for a typical £257,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 20 sales, down 15.7% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£257,500 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026
12 months to August 2025
£305,625
12 months to August 2026
£257,500

▼ down 15.7% on the 12 months before

Detached 3 sales, too few to price
Semi-detached 4 sales, too few to price
Terraced£219,995 13 sales

Across the whole OL3 district, Delph's main postcode district: a typical £323,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Delph: 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 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Are new homes being built in Delph?

None of the 86 postcodes now in use in Delph came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 28 homes sold in Delph were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OL3 district, 2%.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn DelphAcross the OL3 district
The 12 months to August 2026 0 of 20 (0%) 5 of 182 (3%)
The 12 months to August 2025 0 of 28 (0%) 5 of 274 (2%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What broadband can you get in Delph?

Ofcom reports on 86 of the 86 postcodes in Delph. At 59 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit59 of 86
Postcodes where every home can get superfast81 of 86

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 checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Delph at risk of flooding?

25 of the 86 postcodes in Delph have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 128 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 25 of 86 postcodes High: 66Medium: 62Low: 110

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

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, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which schools are in Delph?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Delph. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules.

Primary

Secondary

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Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Each school opens its own record there. How we use it

How far is the station from Delph?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Delph is Greenfield Rail Station, 3.2 km away in a straight line.

  • Greenfield Rail Station Railway station 3.2 kmCycle
  • Mossley (Manchester) Rail Station Railway station 5.9 kmDrive
  • Marsden Rail Station Railway station 7.3 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Which GP surgeries are in Delph?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Delph. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Source: NHS England, Organisation Data Service (GP practices), read 17 October 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is Delph safe? Crime recorded around it

Greater Manchester's police force has published no crime figures to Police.uk for any month from September 2024 to August 2026, so we have none to show for Delph. A count from Police.uk here would take in only the few crimes that neighbouring forces record nearby, so we show none rather than a figure that looks like a quiet area.

Crime around one postcode

Source: Police.uk (data.police.uk), from its download of 30 September 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Who runs Delph?

Council
Oldham
Parliamentary constituency
Oldham East and Saddleworth
Police force area
Greater Manchester
Region
North West
Country
England
MP
Debbie Abrahams (Labour)

All 86 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. The MP: UK Parliament. See all our data sources

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Delph postcodes

86 postcodes in use in Delph, by district:

OL3 postcode district,86 postcodes

That district is in the OL postcode area.

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Places near Delph

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Delph's £257,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Dobcross1.3 km, £430,000Uppermill2.7 km, £330,000Lees4.1 km, £217,498Shaw5.1 km, £205,000Mossley5.5 km, £198,500Newhey6.1 km, £187,500Oldham6.4 km, £178,000Royton6.6 km, £235,000 All places A to Z

Questions about Delph

What is it like to live in Delph?
Homes sold for a typical £257,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, down 15.7% on the 12 months before. At 59 of the 86 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 128 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 25 of its 86 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Saddleworth Medical Practice, 2.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Greenfield, 3.2 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge. Source: HM Land Registry, Ofcom, the Environment Agency, the Department for Education, NHS England and the Department for Transport, as each section of this page says.
What is the postcode for Delph?
Delph is covered by postcode district OL3, across 86 postcodes in use. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Which council is Delph in?
Delph is in the Oldham council area. Source: ONS Postcode Directory.
Who is the MP for Delph?
Delph is in the Oldham East and Saddleworth parliamentary constituency. Its MP is Debbie Abrahams (Labour), as UK Parliament listed them on 14 October 2026. Constituency: ONS Postcode Directory.
How much are houses in Delph?
Homes in Delph sold for a typical £257,500 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 20 sales, down 15.7% on the 12 months before. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026.
What schools are in Delph?
In Delph, primary schools at its postcodes include Delph Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Saddleworth School, 1.5 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Education, Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026.
Does Delph have a railway station?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Delph is Greenfield, 3.2 km away in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport, NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Delph?
Ofcom reports on 86 of the 86 postcodes in Delph. At 59 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026.
Is Delph at risk of flooding?
25 of the 86 postcodes in Delph have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 128 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. This is long-term risk for the land, and leaves out surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Delph?
None of the 86 postcodes now in use in Delph came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to August 2025, 0 of the 28 homes sold in Delph were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OL3 district, 2%. Source: ONS Postcode Directory and HM Land Registry Price Paid Data.

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