Oldham

What is it like to live in Oldham?

Homes sold for a typical £180,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 2,032 of the 2,214 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 3 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 8 of its 2,322 postcodes. It has 37 primary schools, 10 secondary schools and 2 all-through schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Mills Hill (Manchester), 4.5 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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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 Oldham?

Homes in Oldham sold for a typical £180,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 517 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £170,000 from 661 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £325,000 67 sales
• Semi-detached £210,000 151 sales
• Terraced £152,000 289 sales
• Flat or maisonette £96,000 10 sales

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

Across the whole OL8 district, Oldham's main postcode district: a typical £181,500.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Oldham: 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 Oldham?

70 of the 2,322 postcodes now in use in Oldham came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 15 of the 661 homes sold in Oldham were newly built (2%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OL8 district, 15%.

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 Oldham?

Ofcom reports on 2,214 of the 2,322 postcodes in Oldham. At 2,032 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 Oldham at risk of flooding?

8 of the 2,322 postcodes in Oldham 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 3 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 Oldham?

The open schools at the postcodes in Oldham (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. 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 Oldham?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Oldham is Mills Hill (Manchester) Rail Station, 4.5 km away in a straight line.

• Mills Hill (Manchester) Rail Station Railway station 4.5 kmCycle
• Moston Rail Station Railway station 4.6 kmCycle
• Mossley (Manchester) Rail Station Railway station 5.0 kmDrive
• Oldham Central (Manchester Metrolink) Underground, metro or tram 450 mWalk
• Oldham Mumps (Manchester Metrolink) Underground, metro or tram 450 mWalk

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 Oldham?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Oldham, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• St Mary's Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 357 2260 550 mWalk
• Greenbank Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2026 · Phone 0161 785 7910 650 mWalk
• Alexandra Group Med Pract Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report July 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 622 9210 750 mWalk
• Glodwick Medical Practice Phone 0161 622 9220 750 mWalk
• Hopwood House Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report March 2020, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 628 3628 800 mWalk

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

Is Oldham 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 Oldham. 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 Oldham?

Council

Oldham

Parliamentary constituencies

Oldham East and Saddleworth (1,197), Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton (1,113) and Manchester Central (12)

Police force area

Greater Manchester

Region

North West

Country

England

Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?

Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.