Postcodes in Bolton District

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This article covers information about postcodes in Bolton's local authority district. Bolton is an administrative area in Greater Manchester County. Bolton district is further divided into 20 Wards.

Below is a complete list of Bolton Postcodes, it has 7251 active postcodes. Bolton contains approximately 116384 residential properties with a population of about 276820.

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Bolton Postcode and Census - Statistical Overview


Population 276820
Addresses / Property Count 116384
Active Postcodes 7251
County Greater Manchester
No Of Wards in Bolton 20

What is a District

The United Kingdom is primarily divided into large area blocks called Counties. A district is an administrative block in the UK and part of a County council area. The district is also the second-largest administrative block in the UK after counties. These are also known as local authority districts and are different from city districts. Bolton is a local authority district in Greater Manchester county. Districts are majorly categorized into 4 types namely:

  • Non-Metropolitan districts
  • Unitary authority areas
  • Metropolitan boroughs
  • London boroughs

Sub Divisions Of a district

Districts are subdivided into different local administrative blocks. Other categories of local administrative blocks that comes under district authority are as follows:

  • Parish
  • Wards
  • Cities

View Map Of Bolton Wards


This map shows all wards in the district of Bolton, zoom to view all the pointers. If you click on any pointer you can see the ward name. Below the ward name, you can see a link called view postcodes. Click on the link to see the postcodes for that ward.

List of Bolton postcodes


showing 7250-7251 of 7251 active postcodes in Bolton
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
WN2 4EX Westhoughton South 53.53078600 -2.54241300
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