Broadway Street Oldham

48 addresses across 3 postcodes (OL8), about 280 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29404806.

  • Sales: 70 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £135,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Oldham cost £217,214 in August 2026 (+4.6% on a year); private rents averaged £951 a month.
  • Energy: 37 homes have an energy certificate (C: 10, D: 18, E: 8, F: 1).
  • Flood: No address on its postcodes is in an area at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: 2 of its postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Landfill: 8 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Land at Scotfield Road, is 190 m away.
  • Radon: Up to 5 to 10% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Lowerfields Farm, Warren Lane - Battery Energy Storage System, is 1.2 km (0.7 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A627, carries 21,151 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Oldham costs £2,602 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Moston, about 4 km (2.5 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 210 m away, and Alexandra Park (22 hectares) is about 330 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 178 to 189 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 27 of its 49 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Oldham Medical Services, about 610 m (0.4 miles) away, with 17 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,140 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 45% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Crime: 1 crimes were recorded within 250 m between September 2025 and August 2026, most often other theft.
  • Road safety: 2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20251£135,000£135,000£135,000
20232£100,000£100,000£100,000
20221£130,000£130,000£130,000
20201£91,500£91,500£91,500
20194£86,500£44,000£121,000
20181£87,000£87,000£87,000
20171£55,000£55,000£55,000
20161£65,000£65,000£65,000
20132£60,000£25,000£95,000
20111£62,000£62,000£62,000
20101£92,500£92,500£92,500
20093£80,000£75,000£89,950
All 70 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Mar 20055 OL8 1LPTerraced£37,000Leasehold.
6 Jul 20015 OL8 1LPTerraced£15,000Leasehold.
11 Apr 20059 OL8 1LPTerraced£21,000Leasehold.
6 Dec 200511 OL8 1LPTerraced£35,000Leasehold.
31 May 200511 OL8 1LPTerraced£27,500Leasehold.
25 May 199911 OL8 1LPTerraced£22,000Leasehold.
30 May 199711 OL8 1LPTerraced£12,000Leasehold.
14 Jan 202513 OL8 1LPTerraced£135,000Leasehold.
12 Aug 202515 OL8 1LPTerraced£50,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Jan 199615 OL8 1LPTerraced£11,500Leasehold.
23 Sep 200417 OL8 1LPTerraced£39,900Leasehold.
16 Jul 200317 OL8 1LPTerraced£12,875Leasehold.
30 Sep 199817 OL8 1LPTerraced£11,500Leasehold.
4 Aug 199817 OL8 1LPTerraced£11,500Leasehold.
27 Sep 201721 OL8 1LPTerraced£55,000Leasehold.
16 Jan 201321 OL8 1LPTerraced£25,000Leasehold.
18 Jun 200221 OL8 1LPTerraced£11,500Leasehold.
29 Dec 200323 OL8 1LPTerraced£28,000Leasehold.
14 Feb 200223 OL8 1LPTerraced£14,500Leasehold.
29 Oct 200123 OL8 1LPTerraced£14,000Leasehold.
27 Jun 202525 OL8 1LPTerraced£60,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Nov 200525 OL8 1LPTerraced£55,000Leasehold.
14 Oct 200527 OL8 1LPTerraced£42,500Leasehold.
24 Aug 200729 OL8 1LPTerraced£68,000Leasehold.
11 Apr 200629 OL8 1LPTerraced£50,500Leasehold.
11 Mar 200529 OL8 1LPTerraced£45,000Leasehold.
2 Feb 200529 OL8 1LPTerraced£30,000Leasehold.
1 Feb 200529 OL8 1LPTerraced£24,000Leasehold.
24 Aug 200029 OL8 1LPTerraced£24,000Leasehold.
23 Jun 200029 OL8 1LPTerraced£12,800Leasehold.
2 Oct 202333 OL8 1LPTerraced£100,000Leasehold.
27 Mar 200933 OL8 1LPTerraced£80,000Leasehold.
20 Jul 200633 OL8 1LPTerraced£61,000Leasehold.
25 Oct 201935 OL8 1LPTerraced£44,000Leasehold.
24 May 201939 OL8 1LPTerraced£121,000Leasehold.
8 Jan 200939 OL8 1LPTerraced£75,000Leasehold.
26 Jul 201441 OL8 1LPTerraced£65,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Oct 200441 OL8 1LPTerraced£45,000Leasehold.
21 Oct 200341 OL8 1LPTerraced£45,000Leasehold.
12 Apr 200041 OL8 1LPTerraced£12,000Leasehold.
11 Apr 200041 OL8 1LPTerraced£12,000Leasehold.
8 Mar 200041 OL8 1LPTerraced£7,500Leasehold.
10 Jul 202045 OL8 1LPTerraced£91,500Leasehold.
20 Feb 200645 OL8 1LPTerraced£47,000Leasehold.
8 Mar 201953 OL8 1LPTerraced£73,000Leasehold.
27 Feb 199855 OL8 1LPTerraced£26,000Leasehold.
30 Aug 201159 OL8 1LPTerraced£62,000Leasehold.
19 Sep 200561 OL8 1LPTerraced£57,000Leasehold.
5 Dec 200361 OL8 1LPTerraced£33,500Leasehold.
31 Aug 199561 OL8 1LPTerraced£29,450Leasehold.
8 Feb 202170 OL8 1LROther£70,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Feb 202170 OL8 1LROther£70,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Feb 201872 OL8 1LRTerraced£87,000
1 Mar 200672 OL8 1LRTerraced£80,000
11 Jan 202374 OL8 1LRSemi-detached£100,000Leasehold.
13 Apr 200774 OL8 1LRSemi-detached£135,000Leasehold.
3 Oct 199774 OL8 1LRSemi-detached£28,000Leasehold.
24 Apr 199774 OL8 1LRSemi-detached£18,000Leasehold.
23 Aug 201375 OL8 1LRTerraced£95,000Leasehold.
1 Sep 201075 OL8 1LRTerraced£92,500Leasehold.
5 Dec 200375 OL8 1LRTerraced£32,000Leasehold.
15 Dec 202276 OL8 1LRTerraced£130,000Leasehold.
11 Nov 200576 OL8 1LRTerraced£130,000Leasehold.
25 Apr 199776 OL8 1LRTerraced£59,950Leasehold.
25 Aug 200979 OL8 1LRTerraced£89,950Leasehold.
22 Jan 201583 OL8 1LRTerraced£100,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
31 Mar 201685 OL8 1LRTerraced£65,000Leasehold.
23 Sep 201989 OL8 1LRTerraced£100,000Leasehold.
3 Aug 200591 OL8 1LRTerraced£86,000Leasehold.
6 Dec 199991 OL8 1LRTerraced£45,500Leasehold.

House prices and rents in Oldham

A typical home in Oldham cost £217,214 in August 2026, 4.6% more than a year before. That is 33% more than five years earlier and 86% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£378,615
Semi-detached£247,700
Terraced£184,581
Flat or maisonette£132,991
Bought by a first-time buyer£198,052

Private renters in Oldham paid £951 a month on average in September 2026, 13.3% more than a year before. That is 59% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£708
Two bedrooms£888
Three bedrooms£1,078
Four or more bedrooms£1,466

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from August 2012 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

37 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 75 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (30); House, end-terrace (5); Maisonette, end-terrace (1). Built: 1900-1929 (28); before 1900 (7); 1930-1949 (2). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (22); rented (private) (8); rented (social) (5).

Each home's certificates and sales (37 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 9,623 kWh of it on average in 2024, 16% less than the district's 11,471 kWh, and 2,793 kWh of electricity, 10% less than the district's 3,089 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
OL8 1LP242,907 kWh 276,217 kWh
OL8 1LR132,434 kWh 1315,270 kWh
OL8 1XP111,466 kWh 113,336 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is OL8.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Oldham in 2026-27: Band D £2,602 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,735£2,024£2,313£2,602£3,181£3,759£4,337£5,204

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (89% of about 1,620 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the 2 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Lowerfields Farm, Warren Lane - Battery Energy Storage System Oldham FUL/354740/25 Battery storage 27 MW Planning application made Jul 2025 1.2 km (0.7 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 31 October 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

No address in this street's postcodes is in an area at high, medium or low risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water. The rest are in areas at very low risk: less than a 0.1% (1 in 1,000) chance a year.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

No storm overflow outlet is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

2 of the street's 3 postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground. 1 more is elsewhere in the coalfield, at low risk.

Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 5 to 10%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

8 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 190 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Land at Scotfield Road Broadway Mills, Scottfield Road, Primrose Bank, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 190 m
Land at Schofield Street Schofield Street, Hathershaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 250 m
Land at Borough Mill Neild Street, Hathershaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 250 m
Land at Castle Mill Schofield Street, Hathershaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 310 m
Belgrave Mills Groby Street, Hathershaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 330 m
Land at Scotfield Ashton Road, Primrose Bank, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 390 m
Deanshut Clough Warren Lane, Hathershaw, Oldham, Greater Manchester 1960 to 1982 Inert, industrial, commercial, household, special (hazardous), liquid sludge; gas control on site 420 m (0.3 miles)
Fitton Hill Railway Honeywell Lane, Park Bridge, Greater Manchester from 1972 Commercial 420 m (0.3 miles)

Closed tips can give off gas (methane and carbon dioxide) and leak into the ground for years. An environmental search, which conveyancers usually order, looks at landfill and contaminated land around the home; the council keeps a register of land it has found to be contaminated.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 49 addresses are between 178 m and 189 m above sea level (184 m on average); the ground rises about 11 m from the lowest to the highest.

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
OL8 1LP100%100%100%0%
OL8 1LR100%100%100%0%
OL8 1XP100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsMoston 106,000 journeys in 2024–254 km (2.5 miles)
Ashton-Under-Lyne 180,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.8 miles)
Mills Hill (Manchester) 304,000 journeys in 2024–254.6 km (2.8 miles)
Underground, metro or tramOldham King Street (Manchester Metrolink)1 km (0.6 miles)
Oldham Central (Manchester Metrolink)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Oldham Mumps (Manchester Metrolink)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Broadway Street Hathershaw110 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Bus Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Car parksSainsbury's Oldham Car Park1 km (0.6 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest MFG Charging Station680 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN23.1 km (14 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries17 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oldham Medical Services Good Feb 2024610 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies19 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Ashton Road Pharmacy610 m (0.4 miles)
NHS dentists15 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery210 m
HospitalRoyal Oldham Hospital2.5 km (1.5 miles)
Care homes14 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Boston House Requires improvement Feb 202340 m
Police stationFitton Hill Police Post1 km (0.6 miles)
Cash machines4 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone150 m

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or garden5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,600 m²210 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Alexandra Park 22 ha330 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 430 m²190 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha570 m (0.4 miles)
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,230 m²590 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 31 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Alexandra Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 560 m (0.3 miles) north-east. 17 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 1 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Alexandra ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*560 m (0.3 miles) north-east
Hathershaw Hall and Hathershaw CottageListed building, Grade II*640 m (0.4 miles) south
Greenacres CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Snipe CloughValley850 m (0.5 miles) east
Deanshut CloughValley1.6 km (1 mile) south-east
The OrchardWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) east
Little Bankfield CloughValley1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
The RockHill2 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Crime LakeLake or reservoir2.7 km (1.7 miles) south

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)14.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.9205
Particles (PM10)12.24015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
55 to 59270
Under 552249

27 of the street's 49 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Oldham: see them on the Oldham page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Broadfield Primary SchoolPrimary2–1180 m Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 43% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 7% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 61% in 2023)
Coppice Primary AcademyPrimary3–11570 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 44% in 2024 and 50% in 2023)
Werneth Primary SchoolPrimary3–11720 m (0.4 miles) Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 60% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 63% in 2024 and 53% in 2023)
Alexandra Park Junior SchoolPrimary7–11840 m (0.5 miles) Requires improvement (Dec 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 43% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025)
St Thomas CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11840 m (0.5 miles) Good (Nov 2019, overall grade under the previous framework) 62% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 51% in 2024 and 43% in 2023)
Greenhill AcademyPrimary2–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Mar 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 50% in 2024 and 48% in 2023)
The Hathershaw CollegeSecondary11–16930 m (0.6 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 35.2 (39.3 in 2025 and 41.0 in 2024); 20.4% grade 5+ in English and maths
Oldham Sixth Form College16 plus16–191 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C; 10.5% AAB or better; progress above average
St Patrick's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Requires improvement (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Lyndhurst Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 43% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 43% in 2024 and 39% in 2023)
Holy Rosary RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) None published
Medlock Valley Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 48% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 55% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.1 km (0.7 miles); the nearest is 130 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Golden Petals Pre-school Ltd OL8 1QT Sessional day care 64 Good (Sep 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 130 m
Medlock Day Nursery OL8 1BG Full day care 100 Good (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 390 m
Progress Education OL8 3ED Sessional day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 430 m (0.3 miles)
Al Huda Academy OL8 1EH Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 730 m (0.5 miles)
Dream Big Sports Holiday Camp - The Hathershaw College OL8 3EP Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 920 m (0.6 miles)
Adorable steps childcare limited OL4 1EG Full day care 28 Good (Mar 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Heathcot Pre-School Ltd OL8 1RP Full day care 40 Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
Panda Pre-School Coppice OL8 4BD Sessional day care 20 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
ALEXANDRA PRESCHOOL OL4 1AH Sessional day care 88 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
A-Star Kids Parkview OL8 1RD Full day care 78 Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)

Ofsted also registers 114 childminders and 59 home childcarers (nannies) in Oldham. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
Buzau OL8 1LPRetailers - other30 m2 Improvement necessary14 May 2026
Boston House OL8 1XRHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises40 m3 Generally satisfactory1 Jul 2025
Blbas Grill OL8 1QTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen110 m4 Good20 Aug 2025
Friends Restaurant OL8 1QTRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen120 m5 Very good28 Dec 2025
Golden Petals Pre-School Ltd OL8 1QTSchool/college/university120 m5 Very good7 Jun 2024
Karachillies OL8 1QTTakeaway/sandwich shop130 m2 Improvement necessary20 Aug 2025
Family Shopper OL8 1QTRetailers - other130 m5 Very good16 Aug 2024
My Karahi OL8 1QNRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen130 m5 Very good15 Jun 2026
Baymans Butchers OL8 1QNRetailers - other140 m5 Very good27 Dec 2023
Halinka OL8 1QTRetailers - other140 m5 Very good6 Jul 2026
Villa Store OL8 1PWRetailers - other140 m4 Good13 Nov 2025
Nadz Covenience OL8 1PLRetailers - other170 m5 Very good19 Oct 2026
A1 Sweet Centre OL8 1QTTakeaway/sandwich shop170 mUnknown12 Mar 2026
Egg Free Cake Box OL8 1QNRetailers - other170 m5 Very good18 Oct 2025
Treetops Nursing Home OL8 1LLHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises180 m5 Very good9 Mar 2026

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

1 recorded crimes by category
CategoryCrimes
Other theft1

Most of these are attached to: On or near Port Street (1).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

2 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 0 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a child under 16. 50% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202311
202411
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
28 Jan 2024 17:15 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child A627, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
19 Apr 2023 17:09 Serious 2 people Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A627 between A6104 and A62, with 21,151 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 270 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A627 A6104 to A62 21,151 estimated; counted 2024 1% +4% since 2015 270 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 3 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,135 residents in 346 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3340
Children under 1526%17%
Aged 65 and over10%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)45%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented16%17%
Private rented37%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work41%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)8%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)10%32%
Travel to work by car or van57%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram7%4%
By any public transport, including bus14%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away8%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)20%34%
No qualifications32%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)71%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all9%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 1 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

  • OL8 1LP: 31 addresses of 34 in the postcode
  • OL8 1LR: 16 addresses of 17 in the postcode
  • OL8 1XP: 1 address of 14 in the postcode

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What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.