Leigh
TownTown in Wigan, North West.
Leigh is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Leigh 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 44% of people in Leigh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Leigh compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Leigh?
Leigh had 45,499 usual residents at the census.
Leigh is the 240th most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Leigh, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Leigh has no single figure. Of its 28 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 8 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Leigh
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wigan 026D | 2,086 | No figure | 3 | 95.8% |
| Wigan 027A | 1,854 | No figure | 3 | 99.9% |
| Wigan 027B | 1,584 | No figure | 1 | 99.8% |
| Wigan 027C | 1,577 | No figure | 1 | 99.9% |
| Wigan 027D | 1,656 | No figure | 1 | 99.9% |
| Wigan 027E | 1,496 | No figure | 5 | 96.4% |
| Wigan 030A | 1,527 | No figure | 1 | 99.0% |
| Wigan 030B | 2,086 | No figure | 2 | 92.3% |
| Wigan 030C | 2,076 | No figure | 1 | 94.4% |
| Wigan 030D | 1,668 | No figure | 3 | 99.0% |
| Wigan 031C | 1,538 | No figure | 8 | 87.0% |
| Wigan 031D | 1,517 | No figure | 10 | 98.9% |
| Wigan 031E | 2,014 | No figure | 5 | 82.5% |
| Wigan 033A | 1,552 | No figure | 2 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 033B | 1,291 | No figure | 2 | 98.8% |
| Wigan 033C | 1,505 | No figure | 3 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 033D | 1,411 | No figure | 1 | 97.8% |
| Wigan 033E | 2,562 | No figure | 2 | 88.9% |
| Wigan 034A | 1,535 | No figure | 2 | 96.9% |
| Wigan 034B | 1,282 | No figure | 6 | 99.5% |
| Wigan 034C | 1,399 | No figure | 7 | 99.2% |
| Wigan 034D | 1,595 | No figure | 1 | 89.1% |
| Wigan 034E | 1,578 | No figure | 3 | 94.8% |
| Wigan 037A | 1,503 | No figure | 1 | 98.4% |
| Wigan 037B | 1,424 | No figure | 2 | 97.8% |
| Wigan 037C | 1,935 | No figure | 8 | 95.3% |
| Wigan 037D | 1,359 | No figure | 10 | 92.8% |
| Wigan 037E | 1,484 | No figure | 10 | 93.6% |
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.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Leigh2
Middle areas in Leigh6
Towns near Leigh6
Leigh in brief
Leigh is a town in Wigan, North West.
About 48,797 people lived in Leigh in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £180,000 in 2025 across 614 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Leigh was £180,000 in 2025.
Leigh had 45,499 usual residents at the census.
About 44% of people in Leigh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Leigh, 95.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.