Wigan
TownTown in Wigan, North West.
Wigan is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Wigan 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 79% of people in Wigan live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Wigan compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Wigan?
Wigan had 81,580 usual residents at the census.
Wigan is the 132nd most populated of 1,209 in the UK.
Deprivation in Wigan, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Wigan has no single figure. Of its 51 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Wigan
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wigan 003A | 1,316 | No figure | 7 | 98.8% |
| Wigan 005A | 1,523 | No figure | 2 | 99.9% |
| Wigan 005B | 1,574 | No figure | 2 | 95.4% |
| Wigan 005C | 1,492 | No figure | 7 | 99.7% |
| Wigan 005D | 1,709 | No figure | 5 | 90.5% |
| Wigan 005E | 1,517 | No figure | 2 | 99.4% |
| Wigan 006A | 1,886 | No figure | 3 | 93.8% |
| Wigan 006B | 1,609 | No figure | 10 | 88.1% |
| Wigan 006C | 1,459 | No figure | 9 | 97.9% |
| Wigan 006D | 1,463 | No figure | 9 | 97.0% |
| Wigan 006E | 1,613 | No figure | 3 | 94.6% |
| Wigan 007B | 1,836 | No figure | 4 | 94.8% |
| Wigan 007C | 1,318 | No figure | 7 | 99.6% |
| Wigan 007D | 1,530 | No figure | 5 | 99.6% |
| Wigan 008A | 1,207 | No figure | 5 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 008B | 1,601 | No figure | 5 | 99.6% |
| Wigan 008C | 2,032 | No figure | 1 | 91.8% |
| Wigan 008D | 1,476 | No figure | 4 | 99.9% |
| Wigan 008E | 1,683 | No figure | 5 | 97.5% |
| Wigan 009A | 1,479 | No figure | 1 | 99.8% |
| Wigan 009C | 1,587 | No figure | 1 | 99.6% |
| Wigan 009D | 1,316 | No figure | 3 | 99.4% |
| Wigan 009E | 1,476 | No figure | 1 | 99.7% |
| Wigan 010A | 1,858 | No figure | 1 | 98.8% |
| Wigan 010B | 2,020 | No figure | 1 | 98.5% |
| Wigan 010C | 1,830 | No figure | 1 | 99.9% |
| Wigan 010D | 1,680 | No figure | 1 | 98.9% |
| Wigan 010E | 1,661 | No figure | 1 | 97.3% |
| Wigan 011A | 1,434 | No figure | 2 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 014A | 1,458 | No figure | 4 | 99.6% |
| Wigan 014B | 1,442 | No figure | 2 | 99.6% |
| Wigan 014C | 1,473 | No figure | 4 | 98.8% |
| Wigan 014D | 2,133 | No figure | 3 | 90.2% |
| Wigan 014E | 1,384 | No figure | 2 | 96.2% |
| Wigan 015A | 2,037 | No figure | 5 | 76.9% |
| Wigan 015B | 2,034 | No figure | 3 | 94.2% |
| Wigan 015C | 1,778 | No figure | 2 | 92.5% |
| Wigan 015D | 1,747 | No figure | 3 | 99.7% |
| Wigan 015E | 1,433 | No figure | 1 | 95.1% |
| Wigan 020A | 1,377 | No figure | 6 | 99.8% |
| Wigan 020B | 1,453 | No figure | 8 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 020C | 1,749 | No figure | 3 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 020D | 1,298 | No figure | 9 | 99.0% |
| Wigan 020E | 1,272 | No figure | 8 | 95.5% |
| Wigan 021A | 1,382 | No figure | 8 | 95.5% |
| Wigan 021B | 1,540 | No figure | 9 | 98.8% |
| Wigan 021C | 2,628 | No figure | 10 | 98.5% |
| Wigan 021D | 1,995 | No figure | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 021E | 1,354 | No figure | 8 | 97.7% |
| Wigan 021F | 1,128 | No figure | 10 | 100.0% |
| Wigan 021G | 1,626 | No figure | 8 | 93.5% |
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 Wigan5
Middle areas in Wigan10
Towns near Wigan6
Wigan in brief
Wigan is a town in Wigan, North West.
About 84,026 people lived in Wigan in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £178,000 in 2025 across 1,061 sales (HM Land Registry).
The median price paid for a home in Wigan was £178,000 in 2025.
Wigan had 81,580 usual residents at the census.
About 79% of people in Wigan live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wigan, 96.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.