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.

Browse Information On Oldham Postcodes


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 5750-5800 of 5869 active postcodes in Oldham
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
OL4 2FJ St Mary's 53.54151000 -2.09982400
OL4 2GA Waterhead 53.54620200 -2.09135600
OL4 2HA Waterhead 53.54910600 -2.07636000
OL4 2HB Waterhead 53.54924100 -2.07497000
OL4 2HD Waterhead 53.54935100 -2.07344800
OL4 2HE Waterhead 53.55125300 -2.07802400
OL4 2HF Waterhead 53.54943900 -2.07489400
OL4 2HH Waterhead 53.54912100 -2.07883300
OL4 2HJ Waterhead 53.54945700 -2.07472800
OL4 2HL Waterhead 53.54936700 -2.07432100
OL4 2HN Waterhead 53.54928200 -2.08016200
OL4 2HP Waterhead 53.54917700 -2.07821700
OL4 2HQ Waterhead 53.54878300 -2.07435000
OL4 2HR Waterhead 53.55022200 -2.07458100
OL4 2HS Waterhead 53.55027500 -2.07581900
OL4 2HT Waterhead 53.54962700 -2.07719100
OL4 2HU Waterhead 53.55157800 -2.07689300
OL4 2HX Waterhead 53.55101100 -2.07728400
OL4 2HY Waterhead 53.55155900 -2.07770800
OL4 2HZ Waterhead 53.55265700 -2.07659300
OL4 2JA Waterhead 53.55165900 -2.07618400
OL4 2JB Waterhead 53.55282000 -2.07399700
OL4 2JD Waterhead 53.55086700 -2.07636100
OL4 2JE Waterhead 53.55076100 -2.07559300
OL4 2JG Waterhead 53.55000700 -2.07320700
OL4 2JH Waterhead 53.55116600 -2.07453800
OL4 2JJ Waterhead 53.55384800 -2.06924400
OL4 2JL Waterhead 53.55212900 -2.07201900
OL4 2JN Waterhead 53.55316000 -2.07682000
OL4 2JP Waterhead 53.55226100 -2.07485400
OL4 2JQ Waterhead 53.55077000 -2.07308600
OL4 2JR Waterhead 53.55172300 -2.07473500
OL4 2JS Waterhead 53.55124600 -2.07647000
OL4 2JT Waterhead 53.55151400 -2.07566800
OL4 2JU Waterhead 53.55339300 -2.07757500
OL4 2JW Saddleworth North 53.55240800 -2.06878700
OL4 2JX Shaw 53.57306200 -2.05710400
OL4 2JY Shaw 53.57284400 -2.05889900
OL4 2JZ Shaw 53.57140700 -2.06027300
OL4 2LA Shaw 53.57123300 -2.06301900
OL4 2LB Waterhead 53.55272800 -2.07775500
OL4 2LD St James' 53.56525800 -2.06183500
OL4 2LE St James' 53.56469900 -2.06388700
OL4 2LF St James' 53.56497000 -2.06277000
OL4 2LG St James' 53.56496900 -2.06440100
OL4 2LH Waterhead 53.55635600 -2.08206400
OL4 2LJ Waterhead 53.55738000 -2.08097700
OL4 2LL Waterhead 53.55869500 -2.07926100
OL4 2LN St James' 53.56115000 -2.07672900
OL4 2LP St James' 53.56731900 -2.07038200
^ First 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 Last *