Leigh West
Middle areaSouth east Wigan. 8,781 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 4.5 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 93% of people in Leigh West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Leigh West
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Leigh West compares
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What is the population of Leigh West?
Leigh West had 8,321 usual residents at the census.
Leigh West is the joint 3,003rd 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 West alone. See Wigan
Leigh West in brief
The median price paid for a home in Leigh West was £170,000 in 2025.
Leigh West had 8,321 usual residents at the census.
About 93% of people in Leigh West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Leigh West, 96.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.