Leigh North
Middle areaSouth east Wigan. 8,960 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.7 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 54% of people in Leigh North live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Leigh North
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Leigh North compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Leigh North?
Leigh North had 8,167 usual residents at the census.
Leigh North is the joint 3,262nd 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 North alone. See Wigan
Leigh North in brief
The median price paid for a home in Leigh North was £185,000 in 2025.
Leigh North had 8,167 usual residents at the census.
About 54% of people in Leigh North live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Leigh North, 99.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.