Golborne
TownTown in Wigan, North West.
Golborne is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Golborne 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 11% of people in Golborne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Golborne compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Golborne?
Golborne had 25,563 usual residents at the census.
Golborne is the 437th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Golborne, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Golborne has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Golborne
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wigan 038A | 1,581 | No figure | 6 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 038B | 1,628 | No figure | 4 | 95.4% |
| Wigan 038C | 1,556 | No figure | 2 | 99.5% |
| Wigan 038D | 1,440 | No figure | 2 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 038E | 2,062 | No figure | 5 | 99.4% |
| Wigan 039A | 1,255 | No figure | 8 | 99.7% |
| Wigan 039B | 1,888 | No figure | 4 | 97.8% |
| Wigan 039C | 1,612 | No figure | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 039D | 1,559 | No figure | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 039E | 2,642 | No figure | 9 | 96.8% |
| Wigan 040A | 1,835 | No figure | 7 | 97.8% |
| Wigan 040B | 1,625 | No figure | 7 | 95.3% |
| Wigan 040C | 1,521 | No figure | 4 | 99.0% |
| Wigan 040D | 1,664 | No figure | 3 | 99.4% |
| Wigan 040E | 1,518 | No figure | 10 | 100.0% |
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.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Golborne1
Middle areas in Golborne3
Towns near Golborne6
Golborne in brief
Golborne is a town in Wigan, North West.
About 27,809 people lived in Golborne in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £236,000 in 2025 across 453 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Golborne was £236,000 in 2025.
Golborne had 25,563 usual residents at the census.
About 11% of people in Golborne live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Golborne, 98.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.