Orrell
Orrell is covered by postcode districts WN5 and WN8. It is mostly in the Wigan council area: 326 of its 461 postcodes. The others are in West Lancashire. 135 of its 461 postcodes are in Lancashire. ONS lists no county for the other 326.
Every postcode in Orrell, by gigabit broadband
- No home or business can get gigabit: 17
- Some can get gigabit: 51
- Every home and business can get gigabit: 393
- Ofcom gives no figure: 0
Of the 461 postcodes in Orrell that ONS places, 17 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 51 have some that can and 393 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 53.5356, longitude -2.7108. 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 Orrell?
Homes sold for a typical £230,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 393 of the 461 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 2 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 3 of its 461 postcodes. It has 6 primary schools and 3 secondary schools at its postcodes. 2 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Orrell, 600 metres 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 Orrell?
Homes in Orrell sold for a typical £230,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 270 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £219,875 from 426 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.
- Detached £331,000 77 sales
- Semi-detached £225,000 122 sales
- Terraced £160,000 59 sales
- Flat or maisonette £113,000 12 sales
Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.
Across the whole WN5 district, Orrell's main postcode district: a typical £190,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Orrell: 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 Orrell?
8 of the 461 postcodes now in use in Orrell came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 32 of the 426 homes sold in Orrell were newly built (8%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WN5 district, 5%.
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 Orrell | Across the WN5 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 1 of 270 (Under 1%) | 0 of 412 (0%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 32 of 426 (8%) | 29 of 599 (5%) |
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 Orrell?
Ofcom reports on 461 of the 461 postcodes in Orrell. At 393 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 Orrell at risk of flooding?
3 of the 461 postcodes in Orrell 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 2 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 Orrell?
The open schools at the postcodes in Orrell. 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
- Orrell Holgate Academy150 m 198 pupils, 210 places
- St James' Catholic Primary School Orrell800 m 347 pupils, 405 places
- Orrell Newfold Community Primary School950 m 447 pupils, 409 places
- St Thomas the Martyr Voluntary Aided Church of England Primary School1.6 km 211 pupils, 238 places
- Orrell Lamberhead Green Academy1.7 km 408 pupils, 479 places
- St Teresa's Catholic Primary School1.8 km 227 pupils, 236 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 Orrell?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Orrell is Orrell Rail Station, 600 m away in a straight line.
- Orrell Rail Station Railway station 600 mWalk
- Upholland Rail Station Railway station 2.2 kmCycle
- Pemberton Rail Station Railway station 2.7 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 Orrell?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Orrell. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Bradshaw Medical Centre Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01942 483900 1.5 kmCycle
- Hall Green Surgery Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2025 · Phone 01695 588848 2.1 kmCycle
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Orrell 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 Orrell. 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 Orrell?
- Councils
- Wigan (326) and West Lancashire (135)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Makerfield (234), West Lancashire (135) and Wigan (92)
- Police force areas
- Greater Manchester (326) and Lancashire (135)
- 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 Orrell
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Orrell 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 Orrell
- 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
Orrell postcodes
461 postcodes in use in Orrell, by district:
Those districts are all in the WN postcode area.
Check a Orrell postcode
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 Orrell
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Orrell's £230,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Orrell
- What is the postcode for Orrell?
- Postcode districts WN5 and WN8, with 461 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Orrell?
- A typical £230,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 270 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Orrell?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Orrell Holgate Academy, St James' Catholic Primary School Orrell and Orrell Newfold Community Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Up Holland High School, St Peter's Catholic High School and Dean Trust Wigan. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Orrell have a railway station?
- Yes: Orrell station, 600 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Orrell?
- Ofcom reports on 461 of the 461 postcodes in Orrell. At 393 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Orrell at risk of flooding?
- 3 of the 461 postcodes in Orrell 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 2 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 Orrell?
- 8 of the 461 postcodes now in use in Orrell came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 32 of the 426 homes sold in Orrell were newly built (8%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WN5 district, 5%. 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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