OL8 — house prices & area data
A free, sourced snapshot of OL8, Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton from Acreright. Every figure shows its source and date; where the data isn’t reliable we say so rather than guess.
OL8 is a postcode district in Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton. Homes here sold for a median of £165,000 over the last year, up 57.1% over five years. 15,460 sales are on record. Parts of it rank among England’s more-deprived areas (100% of its postcodes are in the most-deprived 30%). 50% of homes are rated EPC C or better.
- £69,450 median sold price (all time)
- £165,000 median price, last 12 months
- 15,460 recorded sales
- +57.1% 5-year price change
- 0% of postcodes in England’s least-deprived 30%
- 50% of homes rated EPC C or better
- Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid & English Indices of Deprivation, Sep 2026
Recent sales
| Address | Type | Price | Date |
|---|
| 44 Howgill Crescent | Detached | £325,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 10 Carnarvon Street | Terraced | £160,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 5 Severn Road | Detached | £285,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 30 Elm Road | Semi | £265,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 260 Heron Street | Terraced | £140,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 40 Wallace Street | Terraced | £155,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 28 Kimberley Street | Terraced | £100,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 19 Lacrosse Avenue | Terraced | £150,000 | Jun 2026 |
| 7 Newchurch | Semi | £206,000 | Jun 2026 |
| 260 Honeywell Lane | Terraced | £200,000 | Jun 2026 |
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid · Sep 2026
Crime
Greater Manchester Police does not publish street-level crime to police.uk — a known force-level data gap, not a crime-free area, so we don’t show a figure here that would imply zero.
Street-level crime map near here →
Across the wider Oldham district
The figures below cover Oldham — the council district OL8 sits within, the finest grain we publish for schools, health, transport, amenities and who lives here.
- £198,500 median home price (HM Land Registry Price Paid, May 2026)
- 242,088 residents (ONS Census 2021 (Nomis), 2021)
- 78% of inspected schools rated Good or Outstanding (Get Information About Schools (GIAS) + Ofsted inspections MI, 2026)
- ≈24 min fastest train to Manchester (OpenStreetMap + National Rail timetable (ATOC/RDG, GTFS), 2026)
- 88% of premises can get gigabit broadband (Ofcom Connected Nations 2024, Jul 2024)
- 78 · 81.6 yrs life expectancy (men · women) (OSM (NHS facilities) + IoD2025 health domain + OHID Fingertips (outcomes), 2026/2025)
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Prices by postcode sector
Median sold price — most recent 12 months where available, else all-time. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid.
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