Wigan

What is it like to live in Wigan?

Homes sold for a typical £180,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 1,676 of the 1,921 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 701 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 188 of its 2,030 postcodes. It has 24 primary schools and 3 secondary schools at its postcodes within 12 km of its centre. At least 5 GP practices are at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Wigan North Western, 900 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 Wigan?

Homes in Wigan sold for a typical £180,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 802 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £180,000 from 1,042 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

• Detached £293,275 122 sales
• Semi-detached £195,000 372 sales
• Terraced £143,000 271 sales
• Flat or maisonette £102,500 37 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Across the whole WN1 district, Wigan's main postcode district: a typical £190,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Wigan: 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 Wigan?

69 of the 2,030 postcodes now in use in Wigan came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 28 of the 1,042 homes sold in Wigan were newly built (3%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the WN1 district, 0%.

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

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 Wigan?

Ofcom reports on 1,921 of the 2,030 postcodes in Wigan. At 1,676 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

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.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Wigan at risk of flooding?

188 of the 2,030 postcodes in Wigan 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 701 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 Wigan?

The open schools at the postcodes in Wigan (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.

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Wigan?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Wigan is Wigan North Western Rail Station, 900 m away in a straight line.

• Wigan North Western Rail Station Railway station 900 mWalk
• Wigan Wallgate Rail Station Railway station 950 mWalk
• Pemberton Rail Station Railway station 2.1 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 Wigan?

The GP practices at the postcodes in Wigan, the first 5 by distance from its middle. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

• The Dicconson Group Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report October 2016, over 3 years old · Phone 01942 482000 700 mWalk
• Mesnes View Surgery Phone 01942 367340 1.2 kmCycle
• Dr Seabrook Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2026 · Phone 01942 231965 1.3 kmCycle
• Beech Hill Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report November 2022, over 3 years old · Phone 01942 807807 1.4 kmCycle
• Marsh Green Medical Practice Care Quality Commission rating: Outstanding CQC report August 2019, over 3 years old · Phone 01942 483135 1.5 kmCycle

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Wigan 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 Wigan. 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.

Source: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Wigan?

Council

Wigan

Parliamentary constituencies

Wigan (1,564) and Makerfield (466)

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.