Postcodes in Oldham District

Facts Checked By Data Team - Written By Mallika Basu - Reviewed By Jonathan Benton

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

Below is a complete list of Oldham Postcodes, it has 5869 active postcodes. Oldham contains approximately 89705 residential properties with a population of about 224892.

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Oldham Postcode and Census - Statistical Overview


Population 224892
Addresses / Property Count 89705
Active Postcodes 5869
County Greater Manchester
No Of Wards in Oldham 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. Oldham 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

Wards in Oldham

There are 20 wards in the district. Below is a list of the wards. You can click on any ward link to view the postcodes of that ward.

Alexandra Chadderton Central Chadderton North Chadderton South Coldhurst Crompton Failsworth East Failsworth West Hollinwood Medlock Vale Royton North Royton South Saddleworth North Saddleworth South Saddleworth West & Lees Shaw St James' St Mary's Waterhead Werneth

View Map Of Oldham Wards


This map shows all wards in the district of Oldham, 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 Oldham postcodes


showing 550-600 of 5869 active postcodes in Oldham
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
M35 9WH Failsworth East 53.51071600 -2.13592700
M35 9WJ Failsworth East 53.50135700 -2.12279700
M35 9WL Failsworth East 53.50489600 -2.13411500
M35 9WN Failsworth East 53.50344400 -2.13763900
M35 9WP Failsworth East 53.50184100 -2.14089000
M35 9WQ Failsworth East 53.49738400 -2.14734200
M35 9WR Failsworth East 53.49559000 -2.15089300
M35 9WS Failsworth East 53.50243800 -2.13713800
M35 9WT Failsworth East 53.50797300 -2.14493400
M35 9WU Failsworth East 53.49451700 -2.15382800
M35 9WW Failsworth East 53.50304000 -2.13771300
M35 9WX Failsworth East 53.50256300 -2.13811800
M35 9WY Failsworth East 53.50261900 -2.13630900
M35 9WZ Failsworth East 53.49912500 -2.14225300
M35 9XB Failsworth East 53.51692400 -2.14728900
M35 9XD Failsworth East 53.51169700 -2.13662500
M35 9XE Failsworth East 53.51099600 -2.13678900
M35 9XF Failsworth East 53.51155200 -2.13763500
M35 9XG Failsworth East 53.51143500 -2.13804200
M35 9XQ Failsworth East 53.50974800 -2.13536700
M35 9YA Failsworth East 53.49880800 -2.14246100
M35 9YJ Failsworth East 53.50618600 -2.14509600
M40 0JB Chadderton South 53.52387800 -2.16983300
M40 1GT Failsworth West 53.49331600 -2.16354500
OL4 2RE Waterhead 53.55175400 -2.08237200
OL4 2RF Waterhead 53.55260800 -2.08181500
OL4 2RH Waterhead 53.54820900 -2.08707400
OL4 2RJ Waterhead 53.54891300 -2.08271400
OL4 2RL Waterhead 53.54960500 -2.08307700
OL4 2RN Waterhead 53.54895600 -2.08401000
OL4 2RP Waterhead 53.55018700 -2.08633900
OL4 2RQ Waterhead 53.54787600 -2.08844700
OL4 2RR Waterhead 53.54968400 -2.08659400
OL4 2RS Waterhead 53.54931500 -2.08725700
OL4 2RT Waterhead 53.54862200 -2.08772400
OL4 2RU Waterhead 53.55092400 -2.08655100
OL4 2RW Waterhead 53.54980200 -2.08431500
OL4 2RX Waterhead 53.55041100 -2.08695800
OL4 2RY Waterhead 53.54950300 -2.08753000
OL4 2RZ Waterhead 53.55131200 -2.08519400
OL4 2SA Waterhead 53.55065500 -2.08624900
OL4 2SB Waterhead 53.55059300 -2.08406000
OL4 2SD Waterhead 53.55160000 -2.08434900
OL4 2SE Waterhead 53.55099600 -2.08600800
OL4 2SF Waterhead 53.55209300 -2.08519500
OL4 2SG Waterhead 53.55315600 -2.08285800
OL4 2SH Waterhead 53.55203300 -2.08179900
OL4 2SJ Waterhead 53.55180000 -2.08080300
OL4 2SL Waterhead 53.55305400 -2.07380100
OL4 2SN Waterhead 53.55341200 -2.07549300
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