Grange Avenue Oldham

86 addresses across 6 postcodes (OL8), about 590 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 29405089.

  • Sales: 95 recorded sales since 1995; in 2019 the median was £145,000 across 3 sales.
  • 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: 60 homes have an energy certificate (A: 7, B: 7, C: 3, D: 23, E: 17, F: 3).
  • 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: 15 historic landfill sites within 500 m (0.3 miles) of its postcodes; the nearest, Land at College Avenue, is 110 m away.
  • Storm overflows: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 26 times (28 hours) in 2025.
  • 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: 2 renewable energy projects nearby are planned or being built; the nearest, Chadderton - Battery Storage System, is 1.3 km (0.8 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A62, carries 32,101 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band B; Band D in Oldham costs £2,602 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Moston, about 2.9 km (1.8 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Werneth Park, is about 240 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 14.3 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.9 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 150 to 165 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 18 of its 89 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Littletown Family Med Pract, about 350 m away, with 8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,300 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 72% of households owned their home and 30% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Road safety: 6 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
20193£145,000£142,000£192,000
20181£159,000£159,000£159,000
201711£186,995£132,500£239,995
20161£56,000£56,000£56,000
20142£137,500£100,000£175,000
20131£122,000£122,000£122,000
20121£125,000£125,000£125,000
20111£100,000£100,000£100,000
20103£135,000£120,000£230,000
20094£177,500£60,000£240,000
20083£270,000£190,000£320,000
20074£206,745£153,000£250,000
All 95 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
30 Sep 201966 OL8 4ELDetached£142,000Leasehold.
25 Mar 201076 OL8 4EJTerraced£120,000Leasehold.
30 Apr 200878 OL8 4EJTerraced£190,000Leasehold.
28 Nov 200378 OL8 4EJTerraced£75,000Leasehold.
25 May 200080 OL8 4EJTerraced£32,000Leasehold.
29 Mar 199680 OL8 4EJTerraced£33,000Leasehold.
24 Aug 199982 OL8 4EJTerraced£39,000Leasehold.
15 Nov 199684 OL8 4EJTerraced£54,370Leasehold.
21 Mar 199584 OL8 4EJTerraced£41,000Leasehold.
21 Feb 199786 OL8 4EJTerraced£45,000Leasehold.
4 Nov 200488 OL8 4EJTerraced£55,000Leasehold.
27 Mar 199890 OL8 4EJTerraced£55,500Leasehold.
30 Mar 200994 OL8 4EJTerraced£155,000Leasehold.
28 Feb 201496 OL8 4EJTerraced£175,000Leasehold.
3 Jul 2007102 OL8 4EJTerraced£153,000Leasehold.
21 Jul 2000102 OL8 4EJTerraced£48,000Leasehold.
20 May 2010106 OL8 4EJTerraced£135,000Leasehold.
12 Nov 2004106 OL8 4EJTerraced£135,000Leasehold.
29 Sep 2000108 OL8 4EJTerraced£40,000Leasehold.
18 Sep 1998108 OL8 4EJTerraced£40,000Leasehold.
7 Apr 2000110 OL8 4EJTerraced£30,000Leasehold.
22 Dec 1998110 OL8 4EJTerraced£15,000Leasehold.
23 Sep 2022114 OL8 4EJTerraced£230,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 Jun 2001116 OL8 4EJTerraced£45,000Leasehold.
14 Sep 1999116 OL8 4EJTerraced£35,000Leasehold.
27 Jun 1997116 OL8 4EJTerraced£35,000Leasehold.
22 Oct 1997120 OL8 4EJTerraced£45,000Leasehold.
20 Dec 1996120 OL8 4EJTerraced£30,000Leasehold.
10 Jan 2019122 OL8 4EJTerraced£145,000Leasehold.
24 Jul 2000122 OL8 4EJTerraced£34,000Leasehold.
15 Oct 1999122 OL8 4EJTerraced£30,000Leasehold.
7 Aug 1998122 OL8 4EJTerraced£30,000Leasehold.
24 Apr 1997122 OL8 4EJTerraced£43,000Leasehold.
24 Jan 1997122 OL8 4EJTerraced£32,500Leasehold.
18 Jul 1997124 OL8 4EJTerraced£55,000Leasehold.
26 Apr 2001126 OL8 4EQTerraced£60,750Leasehold.
30 Nov 2007130 OL8 4EQTerraced£178,490Leasehold.
2 May 2007130 OL8 4EQTerraced£235,000Leasehold.
28 Oct 2010132 OL8 4EQTerraced£230,000Leasehold.
24 Aug 1998132 OL8 4EQTerraced£45,500Leasehold.
16 Jan 2009134 OL8 4EQTerraced£200,000Leasehold.
23 Dec 1997134 OL8 4EQTerraced£48,000Leasehold.
1 Sep 2009136 OL8 4EQTerraced£60,000Leasehold.
1 Aug 2000136 OL8 4EQTerraced£50,000Leasehold.
6 Jun 1997138 OL8 4EQTerraced£51,000Leasehold.
22 Dec 2005142 OL8 4EQSemi-detached£225,000Leasehold.
5 Dec 2002142 OL8 4EQSemi-detached£93,500Leasehold.
22 Mar 1996142 OL8 4EQSemi-detached£67,000Leasehold.
28 Jul 2005144 OL8 4EQTerraced£50,000Leasehold.
16 Feb 2001144 OL8 4EQTerraced£50,000Leasehold.
9 May 2003146 OL8 4EQTerraced£99,950Leasehold.
21 Apr 1997150 OL8 4EQTerraced£45,000Leasehold.
10 Feb 2016152 OL8 4EQTerraced£56,000Leasehold.
1 Nov 2001152 OL8 4EQTerraced£56,000Leasehold.
30 May 1997152 OL8 4EQTerraced£58,000Leasehold.
18 Feb 2005154 OL8 4EQTerraced£60,000Leasehold.
24 Nov 2003154 OL8 4EQTerraced£55,000Leasehold.
31 Mar 2000154 OL8 4EQTerraced£53,000Leasehold.
2 Feb 2007156 OL8 4EQTerraced£250,000Leasehold.
12 Jul 2006156 OL8 4EQTerraced£210,000Leasehold.
28 Apr 2017158 OL8 4EQDetached£239,995New build. Leasehold.
28 Apr 2017160 OL8 4EQDetached£219,995New build. Leasehold.
30 Jun 2017162 OL8 4EQSemi-detached£179,995New build. Leasehold.
25 Aug 2017164 OL8 4EQSemi-detached£179,995New build. Leasehold.
30 Nov 2012165 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£125,000Leasehold.
9 Jun 1997165 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£66,950Leasehold.
26 May 2017166 OL8 4EQDetached£186,995New build. Leasehold.
30 Oct 2002167 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£108,000Leasehold.
31 Mar 2017168 OL8 4EQDetached£219,995New build. Leasehold.
5 Dec 2008169 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£270,000Leasehold.
13 Apr 2017170 OL8 4EQDetached£219,995New build. Leasehold.
14 Aug 2008171 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£320,000Leasehold.
23 Jun 2004171 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£50,000Leasehold.
16 Sep 2002171 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£73,000Leasehold.
28 Apr 2017172 OL8 4EQDetached£186,995New build. Leasehold.
23 Jun 2017174 OL8 4EQDetached£177,000New build. Leasehold.
16 Jun 2014175 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£100,000Leasehold.
28 Apr 2017176 OL8 4EQSemi-detached£174,500New build. Leasehold.
22 Jul 2011177 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£100,000Leasehold.
30 Jun 2017178 OL8 4EQSemi-detached£164,000New build. Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
13 Dec 2006183 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£130,000Leasehold.
15 Mar 2017185 OL8 4EFTerraced£132,500Leasehold.
4 Oct 2002187 OL8 4EFTerraced£51,000Leasehold.
1 Nov 2018189 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£159,000Leasehold.
17 Oct 2013189 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£122,000Leasehold.
28 May 2004191 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£125,000Leasehold.
2 Aug 2019195 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£192,000Leasehold.
16 Jun 2006195 OL8 4EFSemi-detached£169,950Leasehold.
30 Nov 2018CONVENT COTTAGE OL8 4ELOther£877,847Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
3 Sep 20011, FERNHOLME COURT OL8 4EJDetached£92,000Leasehold.
18 Jun 19994, FERNHOLME COURT OL8 4EJDetached£97,250Leasehold.
19 Feb 19994, FERNHOLME COURT OL8 4EJDetached£100,000Leasehold.
6 Jan 20095, FERNHOLME COURT OL8 4EJDetached£240,000
27 Sep 20045, FERNHOLME COURT OL8 4EJDetached£198,000
16 Aug 1996WESTLANDS OL8 4ELDetached£99,500

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 May 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

60 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 132 m². Most common: House, mid-terrace (28); House, semi-detached (13); House, end-terrace (10). Built: 1900-1929 (31); 2016 (11); 1930-1949 (8). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (43); rented (private) (2).

Each home's certificates and sales (60 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 14,422 kWh of it on average in 2024, 26% more than the district's 11,471 kWh, and 4,286 kWh of electricity, 39% more than the district's 3,089 kWh. There are gas meters for about 69% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
OL8 4EQ294,366 kWh 2812,209 kWh
OL8 4EJ303,499 kWh 3117,293 kWh
OL8 4EF162,846 kWh 1617,407 kWh
OL8 4EL52,263 kWh 59,018 kWh
OL8 4DW352,766 kWh 3510,191 kWh
OL8 4ES67 50 Economy 73,842 kWh 104,541 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 B (29% of about 1,260 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: 1.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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

3 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 2 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Chadderton - Battery Storage System Oldham FUL/348617/22 Battery storage 2.5 MW Permission granted, not yet built May 2022 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
IGC, Lydia Becker Way - Solar Panels Oldham SONDPR/354801/25 Solar farm 3.1 MW Permission granted, not yet built Sep 2025 1.7 km (1.1 miles)
Reliance Street Mechanical Biological Treatment Facility (MBT) Manchester 084335/FO/2007/N1 Anaerobic digestion 2 MW Operational Apr 2011 4.4 km (2.7 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

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 0 at medium risk and 18 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

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.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
OL8 4EQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
OL8 4EJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL8 4EFnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL8 4ELnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
OL8 4DWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
OL8 4ESnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 12 unlikely

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

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 26 times, for 28 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Bower Brook Via Sws.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Suffolk St Combined Sewer Overflow United Utilities Bower Brook Via Sws 26 28 510 m (0.3 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

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 6 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. 4 more are 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

15 historic landfill sites are within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes, the nearest 110 m away.

SiteWaste went inWasteDistance
Land at College Avenue Hollins, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 110 m
Land at Mulmount Close Mulmount Close, Hollins, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 140 m
Land off Armitage Close Hollins, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 190 m
Land at Durban Mill Colenso Street, Hollins, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 220 m
Land at Mill Lane Werneth, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 240 m
Land at Heron Mill Lodge 254a Heron Street, Oldham, Greater Manchester 1982 to 1985 Inert 250 m
Land off Armitage Close Hollins, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 270 m
Land at Heron Mill Lodge 254a Heron Street, Oldham, Hollinwood, Greater Manchester 1982 to 1985 Inert, industrial 290 m
Oak Mills Spencer Street, Chadderton, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 310 m
Land at Royd Mill Chamber Road, Hollins, Oldham, Greater Manchester Not recorded Not recorded 330 m

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 89 addresses are between 150 m and 165 m above sea level (158 m on average); the ground rises about 14 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 4DW100%100%100%0%
OL8 4EF100%100%100%0%
OL8 4EJ100%100%100%0%
OL8 4EL100%100%100%0%
OL8 4EQ100%100%100%0%
OL8 4ES100%0%0%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 2024–252.9 km (1.8 miles)
Mills Hill (Manchester) 304,000 journeys in 2024–253.8 km (2.3 miles)
Ashton-Under-Lyne 180,000 journeys in 2024–254.8 km (3 miles)
Underground, metro or tramSouth Chadderton (Manchester Metrolink)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Freehold (Manchester Metrolink)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Oldham King Street (Manchester Metrolink)1.4 km (0.9 miles)
Bus stops14 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 59 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Heron Street Werneth200 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Bus Station1.6 km (1 mile)
Car parksDiamond Valeting - Car Park Valeting1.6 km (1 mile)
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station690 m (0.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN22.4 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 surgeries8 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Littletown Family Med Pract Good Sep 2023350 m
Pharmacies13 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Everest Pharmacy Oldham370 m
NHS dentists9 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery590 m (0.4 miles)
HospitalRoyal Oldham Hospital2.4 km (1.5 miles)
Care homes7 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Park Hills Private Nursing Home Good Aug 2022240 m
Police stationOldham Police Station1.5 km (1 mile)
Cash machines1 machine within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest ATM690 m (0.4 miles)

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 Werneth Park 6.6 ha240 m
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 150 m²470 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 5.8 ha310 m
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 7,360 m²230 m

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 5 parks and gardens, 11 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Alexandra Park, a registered park or garden (Grade II*), 1.7 km (1 mile) east. 20 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Alexandra ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*1.7 km (1 mile) east
Chadderton CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II2.5 km (1.6 miles) north-west
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Snipe CloughValley1.9 km (1.2 miles) east
Wood Park CloughValley2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-east
Crime LakeLake or reservoir2.3 km (1.4 miles) south
Little Bankfield CloughValley2.4 km (1.5 miles) south-east
Wester HillHill2.8 km (1.7 miles) south-east
Boodle WoodWood2.9 km (1.8 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)14.34010
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
60 to 6410
55 to 59170
Under 557189

18 of the street's 89 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
Werneth Primary SchoolPrimary3–11540 m (0.3 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)
Coppice Primary AcademyPrimary3–11600 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)
Oasis Academy OldhamSecondary11–16620 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 44.5 (42.8 in 2025 and 38.7 in 2024); 34.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
Lyndhurst Primary and Nursery SchoolPrimary3–11640 m (0.4 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)
Corpus Christi RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–11690 m (0.4 miles) No published inspection None published
Stanley Road Primary SchoolPrimary3–11780 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jan 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 53% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 54% in 2023)
St Thomas CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–11800 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)
Freehold Community AcademyPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) No published inspection 55% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 56% in 2024 and 56% in 2023)
St Margaret's CofE Junior Infant and Nursery School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111 km (0.6 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 65% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 52% in 2023)
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
Broadfield Primary SchoolPrimary2–111.2 km (0.7 miles) 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)
Oasis Academy LimesidePrimary2–111.2 km (0.8 miles) Requires improvement (Mar 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 36% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 38% 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 870 m (0.5 miles); the nearest is 280 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Channings Childcare Ltd Werneth OL8 4LH Full day care 53 Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 280 m
A-Star Kids Parkview OL8 1RD Full day care 78 Not inspected yet 440 m (0.3 miles)
Oldham Central Centre OL9 7EL Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 460 m (0.3 miles)
Alders Day Nursery OL9 7BU Sessional day care 25 Mar 2026: Expected standard in 4 areas, Needs attention in 2 530 m (0.3 miles)
Heathcot Pre-School Ltd OL8 1RP Full day care 40 Good (Jul 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 590 m (0.4 miles)
Redbrick Academy Oldham OL8 4QQ Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 620 m (0.4 miles)
Corpus Christi Before & After School Care Service CIO OL9 7HA Out-of-school day care 60 May 2026: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 3 710 m (0.4 miles)
Panda Pre-School Coppice OL8 4BD Sessional day care 20 Good (Feb 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 730 m (0.5 miles)
Smart Kids Childcare OL8 3TP Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 750 m (0.5 miles)
Panda Pre-School OL9 7QB Sessional day care 41 Good (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 870 m (0.5 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
All Saints Hospital OL8 4EFHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises60 m5 Very good15 Jun 2026
Attock Superstores OL8 4LSRetailers - other120 m5 Very good8 Jun 2024
Foodville Ltd OL8 4AZRetailers - other120 mExempt
Coppice Halal Meat OL8 4LSRetailers - other180 m5 Very good8 Jun 2024
Werneth Grange Community Cafe OL8 4ELOther catering premises250 m5 Very good8 Sep 2021
Channings Childcare Ltd OL8 4LHHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises280 m5 Very good23 Apr 2026
Park Hills Nursing Home OL8 4DJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises300 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Chamber Mount Residential Home OL8 4DJHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises320 m5 Very good19 Mar 2026
Mezani Grill Ltd OL8 4NHMobile caterer330 m5 Very good24 Jul 2025
Chambers Convenience Store Ltd OL8 4NZRetailers - other340 m5 Very good8 Jun 2024
Oldham Kitchen - Dunked Food OL8 4LNTakeaway/sandwich shop370 m5 Very good29 Mar 2025
Top Sweet House OL9 7BNTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good29 Jun 2026
Wayanad Taste OL9 7BNTakeaway/sandwich shop400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good9 Mar 2026
Local Bargains OL9 7BNRetailers - other400 m (0.2 miles)2 Improvement necessary6 Jul 2023
Royal Oak OL9 7BNPub/bar/nightclub400 m (0.2 miles)5 Very good1 Sep 2021

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.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (derbyshire).

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.

6 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 4 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian. 33% happened in the dark. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202110
202211
202320
202400
202521
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
16 Oct 2025 17:05 Serious 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
3 Feb 2025 14:52 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
15 Dec 2023 15:52 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
30 Jun 2023 15:47 Slight 1 person Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
21 Dec 2022 19:25 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian A62, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
16 Oct 2021 02:50 Slight 2 people Minor road, 50 mph Dark, street lights on

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 A62 between M60 and A6048, with 32,101 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 250 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
Minor road Not recorded 895 counted 2025 0% 60 m
A62 M60 to A6048 32,101 counted 2025 3% +23% since 2015 250 m
Minor road Not recorded 1,320 counted 2025 0% 440 m (0.3 miles)

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: 1,299 residents in 364 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 age3440
Children under 1524%17%
Aged 65 and over11%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)72%61%
Owned outright34%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented15%17%
Private rented13%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work48%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)7%6%
Retired (of adults)15%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)22%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram2%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)72%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away6%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)30%34%
No qualifications27%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)81%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all6%2%

Deprivation

The 2 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 2 to 3 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

Nothing new since the change feed started on 30 October 2026. New sales and energy certificates, and hygiene ratings, school inspections and flood figures nearby, will be listed here as the sources update.

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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 4EQ: 29 addresses of 31 in the postcode
  • OL8 4EJ: 27 addresses of 36 in the postcode
  • OL8 4EF: 18 addresses of 19 in the postcode
  • OL8 4EL: 10 addresses of 12 in the postcode
  • OL8 4DW: 1 address of 37 in the postcode
  • OL8 4ES: 1 address of 66 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Grange Court · Selkirk Avenue · Penrith Avenue · Coniston Avenue · Eskdale Avenue · High Vale Close · Low Vale Drive · Anselms Court · Lacrosse Avenue · Werneth Crescent · Wellington Road · Langdale Avenue

All the streets in OL8 and across Oldham.

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.