Postcodes in Oldham District

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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 5850-5869 of 5869 active postcodes in Oldham
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
OL4 2QD Waterhead 53.55928000 -2.07782800
OL4 2QE St James' 53.56061100 -2.07651700
OL4 2QF St James' 53.56083600 -2.07626100
OL4 2QG St James' 53.56134900 -2.07586900
OL4 2QH St James' 53.56033300 -2.07450600
OL4 2QJ St James' 53.56215000 -2.07458700
OL4 2QN St James' 53.56724900 -2.06914500
OL4 2QP Waterhead 53.55347100 -2.08137900
OL4 2QQ St James' 53.56104300 -2.07571800
OL4 2QS Waterhead 53.55818400 -2.07778100
OL4 2QT Waterhead 53.55310100 -2.08456300
OL4 2QU Waterhead 53.55239100 -2.08359600
OL4 2QW Waterhead 53.55790600 -2.07633100
OL4 2QX Waterhead 53.55164600 -2.08271900
OL4 2QY Waterhead 53.55115100 -2.08336700
OL4 2QZ Waterhead 53.54995600 -2.08238400
OL4 2RA Waterhead 53.55845300 -2.07880800
OL4 2RB Waterhead 53.54813800 -2.08403800
OL4 2RD Waterhead 53.54703000 -2.08907900
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