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BL78 postcode district

BL78 holds 5 live postcodes around Bolton, in Bolton.

No listed town or village has its centre in BL78; the nearest are on the neighbouring districts below.

BL78 (centre of its postcodes) in the UK

Wards

NameShare of postcodes
Farnworth North80%
Queens Park & Central20%

Westminster constituency

Every BL78 postcode falls in Bolton South and Walkden.

Deprivation

The middle postcode here sits in decile 1 of the English Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021-Census LSOAs), where decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods and 10 the least. 100% of this district's postcodes sit in the most deprived three deciles, 0% in the least deprived three.

Deprivation deciles describe the LSOA neighbourhood each postcode sits in, weighted by postcodes rather than by people, because the postcode file carries no population. A district where the deprived neighbourhoods are densely populated will read better here than it would per resident.

Neighbouring districts in the BL area

BL0 · BL1 · BL2 · BL3 · BL4 · BL5 · BL6 · BL7 · BL8 · BL9 · BL11

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