Ashton-in-Makerfield
TownTown in Wigan and St. Helens, North West.
Ashton-in-Makerfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ashton-in-Makerfield add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 36% of people in Ashton-in-Makerfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Ashton-in-Makerfield compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Ashton-in-Makerfield?
Ashton-in-Makerfield had 26,367 usual residents at the census.
Ashton-in-Makerfield is the 423rd most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Ashton-in-Makerfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ashton-in-Makerfield has no single figure. Of its 17 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Ashton-in-Makerfield
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Helens 003B | 1,534 | 54.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| St. Helens 003C | 1,183 | 18.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| St. Helens 003D | 1,331 | 37.0 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 032B | 1,490 | No figure | 10 | 99.0% |
| Wigan 032C | 1,373 | No figure | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 032D | 1,620 | No figure | 2 | 99.9% |
| Wigan 032E | 1,637 | No figure | 5 | 95.6% |
| Wigan 035A | 1,742 | No figure | 3 | 98.7% |
| Wigan 035B | 1,560 | No figure | 6 | 99.0% |
| Wigan 035C | 1,556 | No figure | 9 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 035D | 1,433 | No figure | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 035E | 1,714 | No figure | 7 | 98.0% |
| Wigan 036A | 1,586 | No figure | 4 | 96.2% |
| Wigan 036B | 1,507 | No figure | 7 | 99.5% |
| Wigan 036C | 1,487 | No figure | 3 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 036D | 1,230 | No figure | 9 | 98.5% |
| Wigan 036E | 1,396 | No figure | 4 | 98.7% |
Your MP
- Andy BurnhamLabour (Co-op)MP for Makerfield
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Councils Ashton-in-Makerfield sits in2
Postcode districts covering Ashton-in-Makerfield1
Middle areas in Ashton-in-Makerfield4
Towns near Ashton-in-Makerfield6
Ashton-in-Makerfield in brief
Ashton-in-Makerfield is a town in Wigan and St. Helens, North West.
About 26,463 people lived in Ashton-in-Makerfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £190,000 in 2025 across 361 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Ashton-in-Makerfield was £190,000 in 2025.
Ashton-in-Makerfield had 26,367 usual residents at the census.
About 36% of people in Ashton-in-Makerfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ashton-in-Makerfield, 98.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.