Hindley
Hindley is covered by postcode districts WN2 and WN7. It is mostly in the Wigan council area: 533 of its 534 postcodes. The other is in Bolton.
Every postcode in Hindley, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 19
- Some can get gigabit: 42
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 473
- Ofcom gives no figure: 0
Of the 534 postcodes in Hindley that ONS places, 19 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 42 have some that can and 473 can all get it.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.5318, longitude -2.5654. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
What is it like to live in Hindley?
Homes sold for a typical £200,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 473 of the 534 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 331 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 70 of its 534 postcodes. It has 8 primary schools and 1 secondary school at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Hindley, 1.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Hindley?
Homes in Hindley sold for a typical £200,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 241 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £190,000 from 299 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £307,500 48 sales
- Semi-detached £215,000 100 sales
- Terraced £145,500 88 sales
- Flat or maisonette £89,500 5 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole WN2 district, Hindley's main postcode district: a typical £190,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Hindley: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Hindley?
4 of the 534 postcodes now in use in Hindley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 4 of the 299 homes sold in Hindley were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WN2 district, 13%.
The newest postcodes
A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Hindley | Across the WN2 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 241 (0%) | 1 of 493 (Under 1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 4 of 299 (1%) | 93 of 739 (13%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Hindley?
Ofcom reports on 534 of the 534 postcodes in Hindley. At 473 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Hindley at risk of flooding?
70 of the 534 postcodes in Hindley have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 331 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Hindley?
The open schools at the postcodes in Hindley (the first 8 primaries by distance from its middle). A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
Primary
- Hindley All Saints CofE Primary School400 m 237 pupils, 210 places
- Hindley Junior and Infant School600 m
- Castle Hill St Philip's CofE Primary School800 m 201 pupils, 207 places
- St Peter's Church of England Primary School, Hindley1.3 km 281 pupils, 315 places
- Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Hindley Green1.3 km 197 pupils, 210 places
- St John's Church of England Primary School, Hindley Green1.3 km 170 pupils, 210 places
- St Benedict's Catholic Primary School Hindley1.4 km 198 pupils, 210 places
- Hindley Green Community Primary School1.5 km 420 pupils, 420 places
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Hindley?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Hindley is Hindley Rail Station, 1.3 km away in a straight line.
- Hindley Rail Station Railway station 1.3 kmCycle
- Ince (Manchester) Rail Station Railway station 3.1 kmCycle
- Daisy Hill Rail Station Railway station 3.4 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Hindley?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Hindley. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Pennygate Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report September 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01942 807500 1.2 kmWalk
- Dr Tun & Partners Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01942 482505 1.2 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Hindley safe? Crime recorded around it
Greater Manchester's police force has published no crime figures to Police.uk for any month from September 2024 to August 2026, so we have none to show for Hindley. A count from Police.uk here would take in only the few crimes that neighbouring forces record nearby, so we show none rather than a figure that looks like a quiet area.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Hindley?
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Makerfield (533) and Bolton West (1)
- Police force area
- Greater Manchester
- Region
- North West
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to Hindley
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Hindley is in Wigan; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Wigan about council tax Council tax, on wigan.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Hindley
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Check your bin day on BinDayBuddy, which reads the council's own collection system
Hindley postcodes
534 postcodes in use in Hindley, by district:
Those districts are all in the WN postcode area.
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Enter a full postcode to see its ward, its flood risk, house prices in its sector and its nearest schools.
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Places near Hindley
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Hindley's £200,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Hindley
- What is the postcode for Hindley?
- Postcode districts WN2 and WN7, with 534 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Hindley?
- A typical £200,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 241 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Hindley?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Hindley All Saints CofE Primary School, Hindley Junior and Infant School and Castle Hill St Philip's CofE Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Outwood Academy Hindley. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Hindley have a railway station?
- Yes: Hindley station, 1.3 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Hindley?
- Ofcom reports on 534 of the 534 postcodes in Hindley. At 473 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Hindley at risk of flooding?
- 70 of the 534 postcodes in Hindley have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 331 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Hindley?
- 4 of the 534 postcodes now in use in Hindley came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 4 of the 299 homes sold in Hindley were newly built (1%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WN2 district, 13%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Environment Agency flood risk
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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