Atherton
TownTown in Wigan and Bolton, North West.
Atherton is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Atherton 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 86% of people in Atherton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Atherton compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Atherton?
Atherton had 27,571 usual residents at the census.
Atherton is the 406th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Atherton, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Atherton has no single figure. Of its 16 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Atherton
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bolton 030A | 1,580 | No figure | 7 | 96.5% |
| Bolton 030B | 1,315 | No figure | 9 | 95.8% |
| Wigan 017A | 2,082 | No figure | 1 | 97.0% |
| Wigan 017B | 1,573 | No figure | 1 | 98.5% |
| Wigan 017C | 2,539 | No figure | 3 | 94.1% |
| Wigan 017D | 1,143 | No figure | 8 | 98.6% |
| Wigan 017E | 1,689 | No figure | 1 | 98.5% |
| Wigan 022A | 1,389 | No figure | 7 | 96.6% |
| Wigan 022B | 1,463 | No figure | 3 | 99.3% |
| Wigan 022C | 1,500 | No figure | 6 | 98.5% |
| Wigan 022D | 1,618 | No figure | 3 | 96.6% |
| Wigan 023A | 1,931 | No figure | 4 | 94.6% |
| Wigan 023B | 2,120 | No figure | 8 | 97.4% |
| Wigan 023C | 1,676 | No figure | 2 | 90.1% |
| Wigan 023D | 2,629 | No figure | 7 | 82.7% |
| Wigan 025A | 1,824 | No figure | 1 | 99.6% |
Your MP
- Jo PlattLabour (Co-op)MP for Leigh and Atherton
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 Atherton sits in2
Postcode districts covering Atherton3
Middle areas in Atherton4
Towns near Atherton6
Atherton in brief
Atherton is a town in Wigan and Bolton, North West.
About 28,553 people lived in Atherton in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £199,975 in 2025 across 432 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Atherton was £199,975 in 2025.
Atherton had 27,571 usual residents at the census.
About 86% of people in Atherton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Atherton, 95.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.