# Leigh

Town in Wigan, North West.

Leigh is a town in Wigan, North West. Median sale price £180,000 in 2025. About 48,797 people.

Town. Code E63001260. In: [Towns](https://openindex.co.uk/places/towns) › [Wigan](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan)

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.

## Key figures

- **Median sale price: £180,000** (2025). The median price paid for a home in Leigh was £180,000 in 2025. Joint 139th cheapest of 1,092. Source: Worked out by Open Index from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data. Published 28 September 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/leigh#f-house-sales-median-price
- **Population: 45,499** (2021). Leigh had 45,499 usual residents at the census (ONS Census 2021). 240th most populated of 1,209. Source: Census 2021, England and Wales and Scotland's Census 2022 and Census 2021, Northern Ireland, 2021. Published 21 July 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/leigh#f-population
- **People in radon Affected Area squares: 44%** (2022). About 44% of people in Leigh live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area. UK 44%. Source: Worked out by Open Index from the UKHSA and BGS radon atlas and census output areas. Published 1 December 2022. https://openindex.co.uk/town/leigh#f-radon-affected-share
- **Gigabit broadband coverage: 95.7%** (January 2026). In Leigh, 95.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026 (Ofcom). UK 87.8%. Source: Connected Nations (Ofcom), January 2026. Published 13 May 2026. https://openindex.co.uk/town/leigh#f-gigabit-coverage

## On the map

- [Radon Affected Area by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/radon-affected-areas?place=E63001260) (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.
- [Sales per year by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/house-sales-per-year?place=E63001260) (Worked out by Open Index · 2025): 614 homes were sold in Leigh in 2025.
- [Population by town](https://openindex.co.uk/map/population?place=E63001260) (Census 2021, England and Wales): Leigh had 45,499 usual residents at the census.
- [Deprivation score by council](https://openindex.co.uk/map/deprivation-score-england?place=E63001260) (English Indices of Deprivation 2025): Published for whole councils, so the map colours all of Wigan, where most of this town lies. The outline is Leigh.

## How Leigh compares

Each town against every other town the measure covers.

| Measure | Leigh | Rank | Compared with |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Median sale price | £180,000 | joint 34th cheapest | 161 towns, North West · 2025 |
| Population | 45,499 | 38th most populated | 161 towns, North West · 2021 |
| People in radon Affected Area squares | 44% | 76th most people in radon Affected Areas | 161 towns, North West · 2022 |
| Gigabit broadband coverage | 95.7% | joint 80th highest | 161 towns, North West · Jan 2026 |

## 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

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

## Neighbourhoods in Leigh

| Area | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Wigan 026D](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006322) | 2,086 | – | 3 | 95.8% |
| [Wigan 027A](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006282) | 1,854 | – | 3 | 99.9% |
| [Wigan 027B](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006283) | 1,584 | – | 1 | 99.8% |
| [Wigan 027C](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006284) | 1,577 | – | 1 | 99.9% |
| [Wigan 027D](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006336) | 1,656 | – | 1 | 99.9% |
| [Wigan 027E](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006337) | 1,496 | – | 5 | 96.4% |
| [Wigan 030A](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006328) | 1,527 | – | 1 | 99.0% |
| [Wigan 030B](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006333) | 2,086 | – | 2 | 92.3% |
| [Wigan 030C](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006334) | 2,076 | – | 1 | 94.4% |
| [Wigan 030D](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006338) | 1,668 | – | 3 | 99.0% |
| [Wigan 031C](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006330) | 1,538 | – | 8 | 87.0% |
| [Wigan 031D](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006331) | 1,517 | – | 10 | 98.9% |
| [Wigan 031E](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006332) | 2,014 | – | 5 | 82.5% |
| [Wigan 033A](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006323) | 1,552 | – | 2 | 100.0% |
| [Wigan 033B](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006324) | 1,291 | – | 2 | 98.8% |
| [Wigan 033C](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006325) | 1,505 | – | 3 | 100.0% |
| [Wigan 033D](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006326) | 1,411 | – | 1 | 97.8% |
| [Wigan 033E](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006327) | 2,562 | – | 2 | 88.9% |
| [Wigan 034A](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006246) | 1,535 | – | 2 | 96.9% |
| [Wigan 034B](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006247) | 1,282 | – | 6 | 99.5% |
| [Wigan 034C](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006252) | 1,399 | – | 7 | 99.2% |
| [Wigan 034D](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006297) | 1,595 | – | 1 | 89.1% |
| [Wigan 034E](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006335) | 1,578 | – | 3 | 94.8% |
| [Wigan 037A](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006296) | 1,503 | – | 1 | 98.4% |
| [Wigan 037B](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006298) | 1,424 | – | 2 | 97.8% |
| [Wigan 037C](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006299) | 1,935 | – | 8 | 95.3% |
| [Wigan 037D](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006300) | 1,359 | – | 10 | 92.8% |
| [Wigan 037E](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/neighbourhood/e01006301) | 1,484 | – | 10 | 93.6% |

## Your MP

- [Leigh and Atherton](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/leigh-and-atherton): Jo Platt (Labour (Co-op)), MP since July 2024.

As of 18 October 2026. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.

## Council

[Wigan](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan)

## Postcode districts covering Leigh

[WN2](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wn2), [WN7](https://openindex.co.uk/postcode/wn7)

## Middle areas in Leigh

[Leigh Central](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/leigh-central), [Leigh East & Higher Folds](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/leigh-east-and-higher-folds), [Leigh North](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/leigh-north), [Leigh South](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/leigh-south), [Leigh South East](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/leigh-south-east), [Leigh West](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan/leigh-west)

## Towns near Leigh

[Hindley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hindley), [Atherton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/atherton), [Golborne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/golborne), [Westhoughton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/westhoughton), [Tyldesley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/tyldesley), [Platt Bridge and Abram](https://openindex.co.uk/town/platt-bridge-and-abram)

## 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.

## About

- Type: Town
- Code: E63001260
- Constituency: [Leigh and Atherton †](https://openindex.co.uk/constituency/leigh-and-atherton)
- Council: [Wigan †](https://openindex.co.uk/wigan)
- Region: [North West](https://openindex.co.uk/north-west)
- Nation: [England](https://openindex.co.uk/england)
- Area: 10.26 km²
- People, mid-2024: 48,797*
- Neighbourhoods: 28
- Output areas: 147

* People: worked out by Open Index from neighbourhood estimates, shared out by where people lived at the census (by area in Northern Ireland). This area's edges do not follow neighbourhood edges, so the figure is close but not exact.
† Best fit: the constituency and council this town mostly lies in. Its edges do not follow theirs.

## Next door

[Hindley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/hindley), [Atherton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/atherton), [Golborne](https://openindex.co.uk/town/golborne), [Westhoughton](https://openindex.co.uk/town/westhoughton), [Tyldesley](https://openindex.co.uk/town/tyldesley), [Platt Bridge and Abram](https://openindex.co.uk/town/platt-bridge-and-abram)

## Latest updates for Leigh

- Dental practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Ofsted · Oct 2026.
- GP practices updated: NHS England · Oct 2026.
- Schools updated: Department for Education · Oct 2026.

The same figures as JSON: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/places/E63001260

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/town/leigh, or to one figure with its anchor, https://openindex.co.uk/town/leigh#f-house-sales-median-price.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/town/leigh