Dobcross

What is it like to live in Dobcross?

Homes sold for a typical £420,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 40 of the 52 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 2 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 7 of its 55 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Saddleworth Medical Practice, 1.1 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Greenfield, 1.9 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in Dobcross?

Homes in Dobcross sold for a typical £420,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 15 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £387,500 from 39 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

• Detached £475,000 7 sales
• Semi-detached 3 sales, too few to price
• Terraced £245,000 5 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole OL3 district, Dobcross's main postcode district: a typical £330,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Dobcross: 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.

Are new homes being built in Dobcross?

3 of the 55 postcodes now in use in Dobcross came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 39 homes sold in Dobcross were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OL3 district, 2%.

The newest postcodes

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

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.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Dobcross?

Ofcom reports on 52 of the 55 postcodes in Dobcross. At 40 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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Dobcross at risk of flooding?

7 of the 55 postcodes in Dobcross 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 2 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in Dobcross?

The primary schools are at the postcodes in Dobcross. 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. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Dobcross?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Dobcross is Greenfield Rail Station, 1.9 km away in a straight line.

• Greenfield Rail Station Railway station 1.9 kmCycle
• Mossley (Manchester) Rail Station Railway station 4.8 kmCycle
• Marsden Rail Station Railway station 7.7 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: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in Dobcross?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Dobcross. 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.

• Saddleworth Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2026 · Phone 01457 872228 1.1 kmWalk
• Moorside Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 344 8150 4.0 kmCycle
• Leesbrook Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report May 2026 · Phone 0161 621 4800 4.2 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Dobcross 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 Dobcross. 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.

Source: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Dobcross?

Council

Oldham

Parliamentary constituency

Oldham East and Saddleworth

Police force area

Greater Manchester

Region

North West

Country

England

MP

Debbie Abrahams (Labour)

All 55 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.