Lowton
Middle areaSouth Wigan. 10,460 people in 9.1 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 5% of people in Lowton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Lowton
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Lowton compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Lowton?
Lowton had 8,956 usual residents at the census.
Lowton is the joint 2,167th 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 Lowton alone. See Wigan
Lowton in brief
The median price paid for a home in Lowton was £279,950 in 2025.
Lowton had 8,956 usual residents at the census.
About 5% of people in Lowton live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Lowton, 98.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.