Wigan East
Middle areaNorth west Wigan. 7,356 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.3 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 100% of people in Wigan East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Wigan East
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Wigan East compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Wigan East?
Wigan East had 7,232 usual residents at the census.
Wigan East is the joint 4,591st least 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 East alone. See Wigan
Wigan East in brief
The median price paid for a home in Wigan East was £135,000 in 2025.
Wigan East had 7,232 usual residents at the census.
About 100% of people in Wigan East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Wigan East, 99.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.