Wigan Central
Middle areaNorth west Wigan. 8,362 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.7 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Wigan Central live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Wigan Central
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Wigan Central compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Wigan Central?
Wigan Central had 7,998 usual residents at the census.
Wigan Central is the joint 3,560th 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 Wigan Central alone. See Wigan
Wigan Central in brief
The median price paid for a home in Wigan Central was £160,000 in 2025.
Wigan Central had 7,998 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Wigan Central live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wigan Central, 96.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.