Orrell
TownTown in Wigan and West Lancashire, North West.
Orrell is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Orrell 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 24% of people in Orrell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Orrell compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Orrell?
Orrell had 23,412 usual residents at the census.
Orrell is the 471st most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Orrell, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Orrell has no single figure. Of its 16 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Orrell
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| West Lancashire 015A | 1,724 | 32.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.4% |
| West Lancashire 015B | 1,631 | 56.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 75.8% |
| West Lancashire 015C | 1,452 | 85.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.3% |
| West Lancashire 015D | 1,537 | 28.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.6% |
| West Lancashire 015E | 1,226 | 33.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.8% |
| Wigan 011B | 1,480 | No figure | 8 | 97.6% |
| Wigan 011C | 1,080 | No figure | 1 | 91.7% |
| Wigan 011D | 1,007 | No figure | 2 | 97.3% |
| Wigan 011E | 1,603 | No figure | 3 | 97.4% |
| Wigan 018A | 1,634 | No figure | 9 | 97.2% |
| Wigan 018B | 1,516 | No figure | 8 | 94.2% |
| Wigan 018C | 1,831 | No figure | 5 | 98.3% |
| Wigan 018D | 2,266 | No figure | 9 | 99.7% |
| Wigan 018E | 1,850 | No figure | 6 | 96.5% |
| Wigan 018F | 1,783 | No figure | 9 | 98.9% |
| Wigan 018G | 1,884 | No figure | 7 | 91.5% |
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.
Councils Orrell sits in2
Postcode districts covering Orrell2
Middle areas in Orrell3
Towns near Orrell6
Orrell in brief
Orrell is a town in Wigan and West Lancashire, North West.
About 23,910 people lived in Orrell in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,000 in 2025 across 403 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Orrell was £220,000 in 2025.
Orrell had 23,412 usual residents at the census.
About 24% of people in Orrell live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Orrell, 94.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.