Hindley
TownTown in Wigan, North West.
Hindley is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Hindley 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 12% of people in Hindley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Hindley compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Hindley?
Hindley had 24,485 usual residents at the census.
Hindley is the 448th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Hindley, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Hindley has no single figure. Of its 15 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Hindley
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wigan 013A | 1,737 | No figure | 3 | 94.6% |
| Wigan 013B | 1,682 | No figure | 6 | 90.2% |
| Wigan 013C | 1,635 | No figure | 3 | 94.1% |
| Wigan 013D | 1,482 | No figure | 2 | 99.6% |
| Wigan 013E | 2,154 | No figure | 7 | 98.4% |
| Wigan 016A | 1,442 | No figure | 1 | 99.9% |
| Wigan 016B | 1,531 | No figure | 2 | 99.9% |
| Wigan 016C | 1,572 | No figure | 1 | 99.3% |
| Wigan 016D | 1,877 | No figure | 7 | 99.4% |
| Wigan 016E | 1,559 | No figure | 5 | 99.4% |
| Wigan 019A | 1,634 | No figure | 4 | 98.4% |
| Wigan 019B | 1,577 | No figure | 8 | 99.5% |
| Wigan 019C | 1,455 | No figure | 3 | 99.4% |
| Wigan 019D | 1,937 | No figure | 7 | 99.6% |
| Wigan 019E | 1,916 | No figure | 9 | 95.8% |
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.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Hindley2
Middle areas in Hindley3
Towns near Hindley6
Hindley in brief
Hindley is a town in Wigan, North West.
About 25,229 people lived in Hindley in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £206,000 in 2025 across 362 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Hindley was £206,000 in 2025.
Hindley had 24,485 usual residents at the census.
About 12% of people in Hindley live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hindley, 97.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.