Leigh South
Middle areaSouth east Wigan. 8,370 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 3.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Leigh South live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Leigh South
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Leigh South compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Leigh South?
Leigh South had 7,705 usual residents at the census.
Leigh South is the joint 4,056th 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 South alone. See Wigan
Leigh South in brief
The median price paid for a home in Leigh South was £221,500 in 2025.
Leigh South had 7,705 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Leigh South live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Leigh South, 95.8% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.