Standish
TownTown in Wigan, North West.
Standish is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Standish 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 100% of people in Standish live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Standish compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Standish?
Standish had 12,937 usual residents at the census.
Standish is the 404th least populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Standish, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Standish has no single figure. Of its 7 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 3: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 8: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
- 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 Standish
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wigan 001C | 1,551 | No figure | 6 | 90.5% |
| Wigan 001D | 1,573 | No figure | 9 | 98.4% |
| Wigan 002A | 1,379 | No figure | 8 | 90.2% |
| Wigan 002B | 2,122 | No figure | 10 | 95.7% |
| Wigan 002C | 1,404 | No figure | 10 | 99.5% |
| Wigan 002D | 1,922 | No figure | 10 | 84.3% |
| Wigan 002E | 1,509 | No figure | 3 | 99.3% |
Your MP
- Lisa NandyLabourMP for Wigan
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 Standish1
Middle areas in Standish1
Towns near Standish6
Standish in brief
Standish is a town in Wigan, North West.
About 14,170 people lived in Standish in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £248,950 in 2025 across 212 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Standish was £248,950 in 2025.
Standish had 12,937 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Standish live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Standish, 93.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.