Leigh Central
Middle areaSouth east Wigan. 8,202 people in 1.2 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 71% of people in Leigh Central live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Leigh Central
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Leigh Central compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Leigh Central?
Leigh Central had 7,358 usual residents at the census.
Leigh Central is the joint 4,640th most populated of 9,448 in the UK.
Figures for the whole of Wigan
These figures are published for the whole of Wigan, not for each middle area, so they describe all of Wigan and not Leigh Central alone. See Wigan
Leigh Central in brief
The median price paid for a home in Leigh Central was £125,000 in 2025.
Leigh Central had 7,358 usual residents at the census.
About 71% of people in Leigh Central live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Leigh Central, 95.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.