Mars Street Oldham

7 addresses across 4 postcodes (OL9), about 230 m long, classed as a local road. USRN 29407100.

  • Sales: 3 recorded sales since 1995; in 2007 the median was £84,500 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 2 homes have an energy certificate (C: 2).
  • Flood: 9 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • 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 Mills Hill (Manchester), about 2.7 km (1.7 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 870 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 16.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 8.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 148 to 158 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 2 of its 14 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Chadderton Medical Practice, about 710 m (0.4 miles) away, with 12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,460 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 58% of households owned their home and 17% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.

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
20071£84,500£84,500£84,500
20042£34,000£27,000£41,000
Most recent sales (3)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
20 Sep 20078 OL9 6NBSemi-detached£84,500Leasehold.
16 Aug 20048 OL9 6NBFlat or maisonette£41,000Leasehold.
27 May 200410 OL9 6NBSemi-detached£27,000Leasehold.

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 February 2015 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

2 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 54 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (1); House, mid-terrace (1). Built: 1976-1982 (1); 1983-1990 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (1); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (1 address)

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 (69% of about 980 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.

Roadworks

No street works under way, planned or finished in the last three months on this street, in permits up to 30 September 2026.

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 30 September 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, 3 addresses are in areas at high risk, 6 at medium risk and 4 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
OL9 6LYnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL9 6NBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL9 6QEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 1 unlikely
OL9 6SPnot in 2 or 3 3 / 6 / 3 unlikely

Sources: 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.

Height above sea level

The street's 14 addresses are between 148 m and 158 m above sea level (154 m on average); the ground rises about 10 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
OL9 6LY100%100%100%0%
OL9 6NB100%100%100%0%
OL9 6QE100%100%100%0%
OL9 6SP100%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 stationsMills Hill (Manchester) 304,000 journeys in 2024–252.7 km (1.7 miles)
Moston 106,000 journeys in 2024–253.7 km (2.3 miles)
Castleton (Manchester) 141,000 journeys in 2024–255.9 km (3.7 miles)
Underground, metro or tramWestwood (Manchester Metrolink)600 m (0.4 miles)
Freehold (Manchester Metrolink)1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Oldham King Street (Manchester Metrolink)1.2 km (0.8 miles)
Bus stops11 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 63 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Quebec Street Westwood220 m
Bus or coach stationOldham Bus Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Car parks1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Wellington Street Long Stay Car Park690 m (0.4 miles)
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station360 m
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN24 km (15 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. 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 surgeries12 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Chadderton Medical Practice710 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies17 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Westwood Pharmacy280 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Integrated Care Centre1 km (0.6 miles)
HospitalRoyal Oldham Hospital460 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationOldham Police Station1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Cash machines2 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Payzone540 m (0.3 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 gardenUnnamed 6,260 m²870 m (0.5 miles)
Play area2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 250 m²330 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.3 ha130 m
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.5 ha800 m (0.5 miles)

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Chadderton Cemetery, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 1.1 km (0.7 miles) west. 12 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Chadderton CemeteryRegistered park or garden, Grade II1.1 km (0.7 miles) west
Alexandra ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II*2.3 km (1.4 miles) south-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Plumpton CloughValley1.3 km (0.8 miles) north
Buckley WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-west
Royley CloughValley2 km (1.2 miles) north
Cinder HillHill2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west
Snipe CloughValley2.9 km (1.8 miles) south-east
Crime LakeLake or reservoir4.2 km (2.6 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)16.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)8.1205
Particles (PM10)12.84015

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 5920
Under 551214

2 of the street's 14 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), 1 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.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspection
Westwood AcademyPrimary3–11460 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Burnley Brow Community SchoolPrimary3–11480 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Bare Trees Primary SchoolPrimary3–11650 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
St Hilda's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) Good (Apr 2024, overall grade under the previous framework)
Northmoor AcademyPrimary2–11710 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Sep 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
Richmond AcademyPrimary2–11740 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
The Brian Clarke Church of England AcademySecondary11–16840 m (0.5 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Outstanding
The Oldham College16 plus14–99880 m (0.5 miles) No published inspection
St Herbert's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
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)
St Luke's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Freehold Community AcademyPrimary3–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 1 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
Oldham Snooker Academy OL9 6QHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen100 m4 Good3 Jul 2025
Second Spin Deals Limited OL9 6QQRetailers - other110 mAwaiting inspection
Burgerize OL9 6QHTakeaway/sandwich shop160 m5 Very good10 Oct 2025
Craft & Crave OL9 6QHRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen160 m5 Very good30 Jul 2026
Westwood Bazaar OL9 6QJRetailers - other200 m5 Very good19 Nov 2022
Mumtaz Chai OL9 6QBTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m5 Very good15 Jan 2022
Ahmed Bros OL9 6LFRetailers - other230 m4 Good10 Feb 2025
Tatka Mini Bazar OL9 6BXRetailers - other240 m2 Improvement necessary10 Nov 2025
Haji Food Stores OL9 6BXRetailers - other250 m4 Good8 Jun 2024
Ujan Vati Snack Bar OL9 6BXTakeaway/sandwich shop250 m5 Very good13 Jul 2026
Bismillah OL9 6BXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good10 Nov 2025
Lucky's Diner Ltd OL9 6BXRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen250 m5 Very good16 Mar 2026
Rainbow Kabin Pre School OL9 6RWHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises260 m5 Very good10 Jun 2024
Welcome Cafe OL9 6RWOther catering premises260 m5 Very good10 Jul 2025
Haq Halal Poultry/Meat OL9 6QBRetailers - other260 m5 Very good8 Jun 2024

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).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,461 residents in 359 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 age2740
Children under 1526%17%
Aged 65 and over9%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)58%61%
Owned outright31%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented21%17%
Private rented20%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work40%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)14%6%
Retired (of adults)12%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)6%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)15%32%
Travel to work by car or van58%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus10%8%
On foot or by bicycle13%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)68%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away13%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)17%34%
No qualifications34%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification3%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)74%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all13%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

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.

Everything that has changed on and near this street

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.

Nearby streets

Ashley Street · Osborne Street · Stirling Street · Osborne Street · Quebec Street · Ashley Mews · Sylvan Street · Osborne Street · Links Way · Prospect Road · Prospect Road · Moon Street

All the streets in OL9 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.
  • 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.