Royton
Royton is covered by postcode districts OL1, OL2, OL3, OL11 and OL16. It is mostly in the Oldham council area: 577 of its 599 postcodes. The others are in Rochdale.
Every postcode in Royton, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 21
- Some can get gigabit: 44
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 526
- Ofcom gives no figure: 8
- Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together
Of the 599 postcodes in Royton that ONS places, 21 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 44 have some that can, 526 can all get it and 8 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. 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. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.5672, longitude -2.1229. 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
21 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.
Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together
- 11 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. OL2 6DP, is the one nearest the middle of them.
What is it like to live in Royton?
Homes sold for a typical £235,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 526 of the 591 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 1 home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3 of its 599 postcodes. It has 8 primary schools and 3 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Mills Hill (Manchester), 3.7 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 Royton?
Homes in Royton sold for a typical £235,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 255 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £220,000 from 375 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £350,000 46 sales
- Semi-detached £245,000 109 sales
- Terraced £185,000 90 sales
- Flat or maisonette £156,475 10 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole OL2 district, Royton's main postcode district: a typical £225,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Royton: 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 Royton?
18 of the 599 postcodes now in use in Royton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 5 of the 375 homes sold in Royton were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OL2 district, 7%.
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
| Period | In Royton | Across the OL2 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 2 of 255 (Under 1%) | 5 of 464 (1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 5 of 375 (1%) | 48 of 671 (7%) |
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 Royton?
Ofcom reports on 591 of the 599 postcodes in Royton. At 526 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 Royton at risk of flooding?
3 of the 599 postcodes in Royton 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 1 home or business 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 Royton?
The open schools at the postcodes in Royton (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.
Primary
- Ss Aidan and Oswald's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy450 m
- Royton Hall Primary School450 m 324 pupils, 391 places
- Thorp Primary School550 m 217 pupils, 236 places
- St. Paul's CofE Primary School700 m 231 pupils, 248 places
- St Anne's CofE (Aided) Primary School750 m 290 pupils, 306 places
- Blackshaw Lane Primary & Nursery School1.1 km 176 pupils, 210 places
- Fir Bank Primary School1.1 km 238 pupils, 210 places
- Thornham St. James CofE Primary School1.7 km 197 pupils, 210 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Royton?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Royton is Mills Hill (Manchester) Rail Station, 3.7 km away in a straight line.
- Mills Hill (Manchester) Rail Station Railway station 3.7 kmCycle
- Castleton (Manchester) Rail Station Railway station 4.6 kmCycle
- Rochdale Rail Station Railway station 5.2 kmDrive
- Derker (Manchester Metrolink) Underground, metro or tram 2.4 kmCycle
- Shaw and Crompton (Manchester Metrolink) Underground, metro or tram 2.4 kmCycle
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 Royton?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Royton. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- The Royton & Crompton Family Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 362 4003 150 mWalk
- Royton Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2023, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 652 6336 250 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Royton 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 Royton. 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 postcodeSource: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Royton?
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton (523), Oldham East and Saddleworth (54) and Rochdale (22)
- 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.
Moving to Royton
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Royton is in Oldham; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Oldham about council tax Council tax, on oldham.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Royton
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Royton postcodes
599 postcodes in use in Royton, by district:
Those districts are all in the OL postcode area.
Check a Royton postcode
Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Royton
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Royton's £235,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Royton
- What is the postcode for Royton?
- Postcode districts OL1, OL2, OL3, OL11 and OL16, with 599 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Royton?
- A typical £235,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 255 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Royton?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Ss Aidan and Oswald's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy, Royton Hall Primary School and Thorp Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include E-ACT the Oldham Academy North, E-ACT Royton and Crompton Academy and St Cuthbert's Roman Catholic High School, a Voluntary Academy. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Royton have a railway station?
- The nearest is Mills Hill (Manchester) station, 3.7 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Royton?
- Ofcom reports on 591 of the 599 postcodes in Royton. At 526 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Royton at risk of flooding?
- 3 of the 599 postcodes in Royton 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 1 home or business in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Royton?
- 18 of the 599 postcodes now in use in Royton came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 5 of the 375 homes sold in Royton were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the OL2 district, 7%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Environment Agency flood risk
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
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. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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