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 4850-4900 of 5869 active postcodes in Oldham
Postcode Ward Latitude Longitude
OL2 8RA Shaw 53.57570800 -2.09442500
OL2 8RD Shaw 53.57426700 -2.09777400
OL2 8RE Shaw 53.57431500 -2.09439200
OL2 8RF Shaw 53.57501300 -2.09559900
OL2 8RH Shaw 53.57459300 -2.09415100
OL2 8RL Shaw 53.57474600 -2.09443800
OL2 8RP Shaw 53.57426000 -2.09492000
OL2 8RQ Shaw 53.57552600 -2.09473900
OL2 8RR Shaw 53.57342400 -2.09520500
OL2 8RS Shaw 53.57374400 -2.09728800
OL2 8RT Shaw 53.57318900 -2.09666900
OL2 8RU Shaw 53.57412400 -2.09618800
OL2 8RW Shaw 53.57408000 -2.09537300
OL2 8RX Shaw 53.57270400 -2.09653200
OL2 8RY Shaw 53.57215600 -2.09612300
OL2 8RZ Shaw 53.57202900 -2.09801100
OL2 8SA Crompton 53.57222600 -2.09828300
OL2 8SB Crompton 53.57269200 -2.09997500
OL2 8SF Crompton 53.57184700 -2.10017000
OL2 8SG Crompton 53.57173100 -2.09906700
OL2 8SH Crompton 53.57211700 -2.09959700
OL2 8SJ Crompton 53.57256700 -2.09961300
OL2 8SL Crompton 53.57254000 -2.09884300
OL2 8SN Crompton 53.57297200 -2.09852600
OL2 8SP Shaw 53.57091400 -2.09775200
OL2 8SQ Crompton 53.57164100 -2.09897600
OL2 8SR Crompton 53.57110100 -2.09974500
OL2 8SS Shaw 53.56955900 -2.09530200
OL2 8ST Shaw 53.57481700 -2.09599400
OL2 8SU Crompton 53.56965500 -2.09863900
OL2 8SW Crompton 53.57126300 -2.10000200
OL2 8SX Shaw 53.57189200 -2.09784200
OL2 8SZ Crompton 53.57013200 -2.09842900
OL2 8TA Crompton 53.57320500 -2.09902500
OL2 8TB Shaw 53.57548200 -2.09530000
OL2 8TH Shaw 53.58268600 -2.07791600
OL2 8TJ Shaw 53.58313400 -2.07986600
OL2 8TL Shaw 53.58228100 -2.07889700
OL2 8TN Shaw 53.58254900 -2.08045400
OL2 8TP Shaw 53.58392500 -2.07918700
OL2 8TQ Shaw 53.58311600 -2.07891400
OL2 8TW Shaw 53.58343000 -2.08083300
OL2 8UT Shaw 53.57757100 -2.09074400
OL2 8UU Shaw 53.57856900 -2.09003600
OL2 8UX Shaw 53.57798500 -2.09018600
OL2 8UY Shaw 53.57736300 -2.09108900
OL2 8UZ Shaw 53.57810100 -2.09083600
OL2 8WA St Mary's 53.54149400 -2.09982600
OL2 8WZ St Mary's 53.54149400 -2.09982600
OL2 8XA Shaw 53.57960300 -2.08970600
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