Leigh East & Higher Folds
Middle areaSouth east Wigan. 9,830 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.7 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 42% of people in Leigh East & Higher Folds live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Leigh East & Higher Folds
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Leigh East & Higher Folds compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Leigh East & Higher Folds?
Leigh East & Higher Folds had 9,005 usual residents at the census.
Leigh East & Higher Folds is the joint 2,113th 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 East & Higher Folds alone. See Wigan
Leigh East & Higher Folds in brief
The median price paid for a home in Leigh East & Higher Folds was £192,500 in 2025.
Leigh East & Higher Folds had 9,005 usual residents at the census.
About 42% of people in Leigh East & Higher Folds live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Leigh East & Higher Folds, 92.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.