M5 postcode district

Postcodes and sectors

643 of the district's 1,541 postcodes are live in the ONS Postcode Directory of August 2026. A postcode directory says whether a code is in use, never who is there. The live postcodes centre on 53.47890, -2.28276, which locates the district, not a building.

Companies registered in M5

Companies House lists 1,878 companies with a registered office in M5; 375 of them at addresses shared by 25 or more companies (1 October 2026 snapshot). 25 is the count at which the address lookup reports a company cluster.

Places OS Open Names lists for M5

• Salford
• North West
• Eccles

Roads filed under M5

Named roads first, then numbered ones. A road is filed under one district even where it runs through several, so a street missing here may be listed under a neighbouring district — which is why the address lookup never calls a British street absent. Great Britain has no open register of buildings, so a listed road never means a building on it exists.

• Albion Way
• Aldred Street
• Amersham Street
• Archie Street
• Asgard Drive
• Asgard Grove
• Athole Street
• Aylesbury Close
• Back Hulme Street
• Bala Close
• Baltic Street
• Barff Road
• Barlow Road
• Belfort Drive
• Belmont Street
• Bemsley Place
• Bermondsay Street
• Birchleaf Grove
• Blackburn Place
• Blucher Street
• Bolivia Street
• Bradden Close
• Bramble Avenue
• Brandsby Gardens
• Brassington Avenue
• Brickfield Street
• Bridson Street
• Brigantine Close
• Browfield Avenue
• Brunel Avenue
• Buckfield Avenue
• Buckingham Street
• Buile Hill Drive
• Burnett Avenue
• Bute Street
• Byrom Street
• Calvert Street
• Cambridge Place
• Canal Street
• Canterbury Gardens
• Carmel Avenue
• Carmel Close
• Cass Avenue
• Cavell Way
• Cedric Street
• Cemetery Road
• Chambers Field Court
• Chancel Avenue
• Chandos Grove
• Christchurch Avenue
• Christopher Street
• Clare Street
• Clarke Avenue
• Cloughfield Avenue
• Cockcroft Road
• Colgate Lane
• Collingburn Avenue
• Colman Gardens
• Comus Street
• Cooke Place

Check an address in M5

Check an address in M5

The same road list through the API, from the outward code alone:

curl "https://spaw.co/api/v1/address/streets?country=GB&postal_code=M5" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPAW_KEY"

Common questions about M5

What does an M5 postcode tell you?

That the address lies in the M5 district of the M (Manchester) postcode area, and the place OS Open Names most often lists first for its postcodes is Salford. The district alone does not place a street: the inward half of the full postcode narrows the address to one of the district's 643 live postcodes.

Where the counts come from

• ons-postcode-directory · version 2026-08 · Contains ONS, OS and Royal Mail data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. Northern Ireland postcodes are excluded: their reuse needs a Land & Property Services licence.
• os-open-names · version 2026-11-01 · Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.
• uk-companies-house · version 2026-10-01 · Companies House free company data product, Open Government Licence v3.0

What each figure means, and what a district page never says, is set out in Reading a British postcode district page; the glossary defines a postcode district, a postcode area, a postcode directory and a street register.

Data synced on 2026-11-01: the newest version among the datasets listed above.

Districts nearest M5

• M500.9 km
• M61.9 km
• M32.0 km
• M152.4 km
• M22.5 km
• M172.7 km
• M162.9 km
• M13.1 km
• M603.2 km
• M73.2 km
• M43.6 km
• M323.6 km
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distance between the districts' centroids