Oozewood Road Oldham

105 addresses across 8 postcodes (M24,OL1,OL2), about 1.6 km (1 mile) long, classed as a local road. USRN 29401303.

  • Sales: 57 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £277,000 across 1 sale.
  • Energy: 44 homes have an energy certificate (B: 4, C: 14, D: 20, E: 5, F: 1).
  • Flood: 15 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 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Mills Hill (Manchester), about 3 km (1.9 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Tandle Hill Park, is about 200 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.2 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.1 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 147 to 167 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 34 of its 105 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Royton Medical Centre, about 1.1 km (0.7 miles) away, with 2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,370 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 78% of households owned their home and 27% 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
20261£277,000£277,000£277,000
20253£230,000£200,500£347,950
20242£253,500£225,000£282,000
20233£242,000£190,000£295,000
20223£285,000£248,000£317,000
20213£224,950£223,500£229,950
20201£182,000£182,000£182,000
20193£227,000£157,000£230,000
20184£157,500£129,150£287,500
20166£151,475£110,000£190,000
20131£146,000£146,000£146,000
20112£156,500£148,000£165,000
Most recent sales (latest 50 of 57)
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 May 202629 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£277,000
7 Feb 202559 OL2 5XWSemi-detached£347,950Leasehold.
10 Jan 202550 OL2 5XGSemi-detached£230,000Leasehold.
7 Jan 20259 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£200,500
26 Mar 202442 OL2 5XGSemi-detached£225,000Leasehold.
22 Feb 202431 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£282,000Leasehold.
31 Jul 202327 OL2 5SQDetached£295,000Leasehold.
26 Jun 20233 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£190,000
28 Mar 202315 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£242,000Leasehold.
24 Jun 202283 OL2 5XGDetached£317,000Leasehold.
25 Mar 202246 OL2 5XGSemi-detached£248,000Leasehold.
10 Feb 202275 OL2 5XGDetached£285,000
30 Sep 202144 OL2 5XGSemi-detached£229,950Leasehold.
14 Sep 202142 OL2 5XGSemi-detached£224,950Leasehold.
30 Jun 202133 OL2 5XWSemi-detached£223,500Leasehold.
20 Nov 202045 OL2 5XWSemi-detached£182,000Leasehold.
27 Sep 20191 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£157,000Leasehold.
13 Sep 201965 OL2 5XGDetached£230,000Leasehold.
24 May 201925 OL2 5SQDetached£227,000Leasehold.
27 Jul 201815 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£165,000Leasehold.
25 May 201813 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£129,150Leasehold.
28 Mar 201846 OL2 5XGSemi-detached£150,000Leasehold.
5 Feb 201858 OL2 5XGDetached£287,500Leasehold.
30 Oct 201758 OL2 5XGDetached£320,000Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Nov 201677 OL2 5XGDetached£156,000
7 Nov 201669 OL2 5XGSemi-detached£190,000Leasehold.
7 Nov 201669 OL2 5XGOther£190,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
4 Nov 201673 OL2 5XGSemi-detached£180,000
5 Aug 201614 OL2 5XWSemi-detached£140,000Leasehold.
1 Jul 201615 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£146,950Leasehold.
18 Feb 20161 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£110,000Leasehold.
25 Oct 201351 OL2 5XWSemi-detached£146,000Leasehold.
7 Oct 201136 OL2 5XGSemi-detached£148,000Leasehold.
22 Jul 201143 OL2 5XWSemi-detached£165,000Leasehold.
14 May 201019 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£159,950Leasehold.
9 Apr 201017 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£128,000
9 Feb 20075 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£165,000Leasehold.
3 Nov 200611 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£145,000Leasehold.
24 May 20068 OL2 5XWSemi-detached£125,000Leasehold.
2 May 200643 OL2 5XWSemi-detached£167,000Leasehold.
15 Dec 200549 OL2 5XWSemi-detached£142,500Leasehold.
11 Nov 200516 OL2 5XWSemi-detached£146,000
9 Sep 200526 OL2 5XWSemi-detached£152,950Leasehold.
28 Apr 200565 OL2 5XGDetached£225,000Leasehold.
13 Aug 200432 OL2 5XGSemi-detached£140,000Leasehold.
16 Jun 200419 OL2 5SQSemi-detached£115,000Leasehold.
4 Oct 200244 OL2 5XGSemi-detached£89,950Leasehold.
19 Apr 200220 OL2 5XWSemi-detached£79,950Leasehold.
28 Mar 200248 OL2 5XGSemi-detached£88,500Leasehold.
31 Aug 200133 OL2 5XWSemi-detached£86,500Leasehold.

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 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

44 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 99 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (28); House, detached (7); Bungalow, semi-detached (6). Built: 1967-1975 (23); 1950-1966 (15); 1976-1982 (3). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (40).

Each home's certificates and sales (24 addresses)

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 (29% of about 2,430 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 4 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: yes, Oldham, Rochdale.

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 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, 7 addresses are in areas at high risk, 8 at medium risk and 20 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
OL2 5SQnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL2 5XGnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 3 unlikely
OL2 5XWnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 8 unlikely
OL2 5SJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
M24 2RSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL1 2TBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
OL2 5SDnot in 2 or 3 5 / 8 / 8 unlikely
OL2 6TSnot in 2 or 3 2 / 0 / 1 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 105 addresses are between 147 m and 167 m above sea level (157 m on average); the ground rises about 20 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
M24 2RS0%0%0%0%
OL1 2TB0%0%0%0%
OL2 5SD100%100%100%0%
OL2 5SJ100%100%100%0%
OL2 5SQ100%90%90%0%
OL2 5XG100%100%100%0%
OL2 5XW100%100%100%0%
OL2 6TS100%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 2024–253 km (1.9 miles)
Castleton (Manchester) 141,000 journeys in 2024–253.4 km (2.1 miles)
Rochdale 1.6 million journeys in 2024–254.5 km (2.8 miles)
Bus stops0 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 6 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Kingston Drive Thorp560 m (0.3 miles)
Bus or coach stationOldham Bus Station3.4 km (2.1 miles)
Car parks146 Turf Lane Parking2.6 km (1.6 miles)
EV charging pointsbp pulse Charging Station2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN26.3 km (16 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 surgeries2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Royton Medical Centre1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Royton & Crompton Wellness Pharmacy1.2 km (0.7 miles)
NHS dentists2 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Oasis Dentist1.2 km (0.7 miles)
HospitalThe Royal Oldham Hospital2.3 km (1.4 miles)
Police stationOldham Police Station3.7 km (2.3 miles)
Cash machinesPayzone2.2 km (1.4 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 garden1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Tandle Hill Park 47 ha200 m
Play areaUnnamed 2,340 m²910 m (0.6 miles)
Playing field1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest The Paddock 2.6 ha790 m (0.5 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 1.5 ha2 km (1.2 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 1 park or garden, 47 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Chadderton Cemetery, a registered park or garden (Grade II), 2.5 km (1.6 miles) south. 3 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 II2.5 km (1.6 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Oozewood CloughValley500 m (0.3 miles) north
Royley CloughValley810 m (0.5 miles) south
Tandle HillHill900 m (0.6 miles) north-west
Cinder HillHill1 km (0.6 miles) south-west
Gerrard WoodWood1 km (0.6 miles) north-west
Mill PondLake or reservoir2.4 km (1.5 miles) north-west

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)11.24010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.1205
Particles (PM10)10.94015

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
70 to 7410
60 to 64120
55 to 59210
Under 5571105

34 of the street's 105 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), 3 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
Thorp Primary SchoolPrimary3–11630 m (0.4 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework)
Fir Bank Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection
St. Paul's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 miles) Good (Sep 2019, overall grade under the previous framework)
Ss Aidan and Oswald's RC Primary School, a Voluntary Academy Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
Thornham St. James CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection
E-ACT the Oldham Academy NorthSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection
Royton Hall Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good
St Anne's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St John's Church of England Primary School, ThornhamPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
St Matthew's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.8 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection
North Chadderton SchoolSecondary11–181.9 km (1.2 miles) No overall grade (Nov 2024, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 3 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.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

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 (lancashire).

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,372 residents in 582 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 age4740
Children under 1516%17%
Aged 65 and over24%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)78%61%
Owned outright44%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented11%17%
Private rented11%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)5%6%
Retired (of adults)27%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)4%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)25%32%
Travel to work by car or van63%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle6%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)76%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away3%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)27%34%
No qualifications20%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The 4 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 5 to 6 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.

  • OL2 5SQ: 34 addresses of 37 in the postcode
  • OL2 5XG: 28 addresses of 30 in the postcode
  • OL2 5XW: 26 addresses
  • OL2 5SJ: 13 addresses
  • M24 2RS: 1 address of 4 in the postcode
  • OL1 2TB: 1 address of 14 in the postcode
  • OL2 5SD: 1 address of 62 in the postcode
  • OL2 6TS: 1 address of 28 in the postcode

Nearby streets

Kirkdale Drive · Firswood Drive · Elmwood Drive

All the streets in M24, OL1, OL2 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.