Sale
Sale is covered by postcode districts M23, M32, M33 and WA14. It is mostly in the Trafford council area: 1,536 of its 1,565 postcodes. The others are in Manchester.
Every postcode in Sale, and which are new since 2020
- New since 2020: 29
- In use before 2020: 1,536
- Outline: where 5 or more new postcodes since 2020 lie together
Of the 1,565 postcodes in Sale that ONS places, 29 are new since 2020 and 1,536 were in use before 2020.
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. New since 2020 means it came into use in January 2020 or later. 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 53.4210, longitude -2.3263. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 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.
The 5 newest postcodes
What is it like to live in Sale?
Homes sold for a typical £390,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 1,471 of the 1,535 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 259 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 154 of its 1,565 postcodes. It has 19 primary schools and 3 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Navigation Road, 3.1 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 Sale?
Homes in Sale sold for a typical £390,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 706 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £382,750 from 894 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £647,500 100 sales
- Semi-detached £450,000 301 sales
- Terraced £337,500 168 sales
- Flat or maisonette £195,000 137 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole M33 district, Sale's main postcode district: a typical £394,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Sale: 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 Sale?
29 of the 1,565 postcodes now in use in Sale came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 894 homes sold in Sale were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the M33 district, 0%.
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 Sale | Across the M33 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 1 of 706 (Under 1%) | 1 of 695 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 0 of 894 (0%) | 0 of 877 (0%) |
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 Sale?
Ofcom reports on 1,535 of the 1,565 postcodes in Sale. At 1,471 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 Sale at risk of flooding?
154 of the 1,565 postcodes in Sale 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 259 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 Sale?
The open schools at the postcodes in Sale (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
- Forest Park Preparatory School400 m 158 pupils, 195 places
- Springfield Primary School450 m 680 pupils, 682 places
- St Mary's CofE Primary School550 m 239 pupils, 240 places
- St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, a Voluntary Academy550 m 437 pupils, 420 places
- Brooklands Primary School850 m 645 pupils, 664 places
- Park Road Sale Primary School950 m 461 pupils, 420 places
- St Anne's CofE Primary School1.2 km 216 pupils, 256 places
- Wellfield Infant and Nursery School1.2 km 206 pupils, 200 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 Sale?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Sale is Navigation Road Rail Station, 3.1 km away in a straight line.
- Navigation Road Rail Station Railway station 3.1 kmCycle
- Humphrey Park Rail Station Railway station 3.5 kmCycle
- Urmston Rail Station Railway station 3.5 kmCycle
- Brooklands (Manchester Metrolink) Underground, metro or tram 450 mWalk
- Sale (Manchester Metrolink) Underground, metro or tram 600 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 Sale?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Sale, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Washway Road Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 962 4354 200 mWalk
- Conway Road Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 973 1151 1.5 kmCycle
- Bodmin Road Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2024 · Phone 0161 962 4625 1.9 kmCycle
- Firsway Health Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report June 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 905 0310 1.9 kmCycle
- Boundary House Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2018, over 3 years old · Phone 0161 972 9999 2.5 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Sale 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 Sale. 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 Sale?
- Councils
- Trafford (1,536) and Manchester (29)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Wythenshawe and Sale East (862), Altrincham and Sale West (625) and Stretford and Urmston (78)
- 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 Sale
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Sale is in Trafford; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Trafford about council tax Council tax, on trafford.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Sale
- 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 Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Sale postcodes
1,565 postcodes in use in Sale, by district:
Those districts are in the M postcode area and WA postcode area.
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Places near Sale
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Sale's £390,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Sale
- What is the postcode for Sale?
- Postcode districts M23, M32, M33 and WA14, with 1,565 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Sale?
- A typical £390,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 706 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Sale?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Forest Park Preparatory School, Springfield Primary School and St Mary's CofE Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Sale Grammar School, Ashton-on-Mersey School and Sale High School. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Sale have a railway station?
- The nearest is Navigation Road station, 3.1 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Sale?
- Ofcom reports on 1,535 of the 1,565 postcodes in Sale. At 1,471 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Sale at risk of flooding?
- 154 of the 1,565 postcodes in Sale 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 259 homes and businesses 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 Sale?
- 29 of the 1,565 postcodes now in use in Sale came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 894 homes sold in Sale were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the M33 district, 0%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- 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 HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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