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Ince-in-Makerfield

Town

Town in Wigan, North West.

Ince-in-Makerfield is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Ince-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.

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Radon Affected Area by town

Worked out by Open Index · 2022

Under 1%90% or more

About 95% of people in Ince-in-Makerfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

Median sale price
£154,000
Joint 63rd cheapest of 1,092
Worked out by Open Index
Population
12,186
367th least populated of 1,209
ONS Census 2021 · 2021
People in radon Affected Area squares
95%
UK 44%
Worked out by Open Index
Gigabit broadband coverage
97.9%
UK 87.8%
Ofcom · Jan 2026

How Ince-in-Makerfield compares

Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.

Ince-in-MakerfieldMiddle
Median sale price161 towns, North West · 2025
Median sale price: every town in North West161 areas from £95,000 to £700,000. The middle area is £222,000. Ince-in-Makerfield is £154,000.
£154,000joint 19th cheapest
Population161 towns, North West · 2021
Population: every town in North West161 areas from 7,551 to 506,564. The middle area is 22,886. Ince-in-Makerfield is 12,186.
12,18634th least populated
People in radon Affected Area squares161 towns, North West · 2022
People in radon Affected Area squares: every town in North West161 areas from 0.0% to 100.0%. The middle area is 29.0%. Ince-in-Makerfield is 95.0%.
95%joint 33rd most people in radon Affected Areas
Gigabit broadband coverage161 towns, North West · Jan 2026
Gigabit broadband coverage: every town in North West161 areas from 35.0% to 99.6%. The middle area is 95.7%. Ince-in-Makerfield is 97.9%.
97.9%joint 28th highest

What is the population of Ince-in-Makerfield?

Ince-in-Makerfield had 12,186 usual residents at the census.

Ince-in-Makerfield is the 367th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.

Deprivation in Ince-in-Makerfield, neighbourhood by neighbourhood

  • Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Ince-in-Makerfield has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
  • Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
  • Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood

English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.

Neighbourhoods in Ince-in-Makerfield

NamePeople (census)Recorded crime per 1,000Deprivation decileGigabit broadband
Wigan 009B1,374No figure299.1%
Wigan 012A1,710No figure1100.0%
Wigan 012B1,620No figure197.9%
Wigan 012C1,669No figure298.1%
Wigan 012D1,589No figure196.8%
Wigan 012E1,534No figure295.0%
Wigan 024C2,378No figure398.5%

Your MP

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 Ince-in-Makerfield3

Middle areas in Ince-in-Makerfield1

Towns near Ince-in-Makerfield6

Ince-in-Makerfield in brief

Ince-in-Makerfield is a town in Wigan, North West.

About 12,734 people lived in Ince-in-Makerfield in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £154,000 in 2025 across 106 sales (HM Land Registry).

The median price paid for a home in Ince-in-Makerfield was £154,000 in 2025.

Ince-in-Makerfield had 12,186 usual residents at the census.

About 95% of people in Ince-in-Makerfield live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.

In Ince-in-Makerfield, 97.9% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.