WATERTON LANE, OL5 0NR House Prices & Local Information

OL5 0NR is an accessible, working-class neighbourhood on Waterton Lane, 0.3km from Brook Bottom in Mossley. Administratively it sits within Mossley ward and the Stalybridge and Hyde constituency.

An affordable area with active regeneration, OL5 0NR is a striving suburban area — non-UK born households working to get ahead. A balanced community with an average age of 38 — families, professionals, and long-term residents all well represented. 58% of homes are socially rented, reflecting the area's public housing provision and council presence.

Safety: Crime rates are low here at 0 incidents per 1,000 residents — well below average and reassuring for families. Property: With prices averaging £178k, this is one of the more affordable postcodes in the area, up 10.8% year-on-year. The Index of Multiple Deprivation places this area in the most deprived 20% nationally — this often means more affordable prices and active local authority investment, but also fewer amenities and higher benefit dependency.

Census 2021 statistics for OL5 0NR are sourced from Output Area E00030671 (shared with 6 postcodes in this micro-neighbourhood). Property prices come from HM Land Registry.