Canaan Golborne, Wigan

93 addresses across 2 postcodes (WA3,WN7), about 600 m (0.4 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 44100564.

  • Sales: 91 recorded sales since 1995; in 2026 the median was £272,000 across 1 sale.
  • Prices and rents: A typical home in Wigan cost £194,393 in August 2026 (+2.8% on a year); private rents averaged £749 a month.
  • Energy: 70 homes have an energy certificate (B: 52, C: 5, D: 12, E: 1).
  • Flood: 7 addresses on its postcodes are in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: No recorded flood covers the centre of any of its postcodes.
  • Coal mining: It is in a coalfield, in a low risk area.
  • Storm overflows: 2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 43 times (78 hours) in 2025.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A580, carries 37,275 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band C; Band D in Wigan costs £2,153 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Newton-Le-Willows, about 5.5 km (3.4 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Pennington Flash Country Park, is about 830 m (0.5 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.1 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 23 to 25 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 18 of its 93 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Lowton & Platt Bridge Surgery, about 1.5 km (0.9 miles) away.
  • People: About 540 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 93% of households owned their home and 35% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Road safety: 1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, and it was serious; 1 involved a pedestrian.

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House sales on this street

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, sales registered up to 28 August 2026, loaded 28 October 2026. Sales reach the register two weeks to two months after completion, so the last two months are incomplete. Matched by postcode and street name.

Sales by year (standard sales only; repossessions and buy-to-let transfers excluded)
YearSalesMedian priceLowestHighest
20261£272,000£272,000£272,000
20253£198,500£193,000£325,000
20241£200,000£200,000£200,000
20225£207,500£199,000£258,995
20215£258,995£248,995£268,995
202040£210,995£124,995£268,995
20191£129,000£129,000£129,000
20183£138,500£125,000£158,000
20153£210,500£160,000£225,000
20111£165,000£165,000£165,000
20091£65,000£65,000£65,000
20082£134,000£130,000£138,000
All 91 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
1 Jun 20154 WA3 1EGDetached£210,500
5 Dec 20186 WA3 1EGTerraced£158,000
30 Jan 20046 WA3 1EGTerraced£88,000
23 Mar 20077 WN7 3QSSemi-detached£122,000
28 Feb 20208 WA3 1EGTerraced£136,000
10 Oct 20038 WA3 1EGTerraced£85,000
26 Jan 202210 WA3 1EGTerraced£207,500
2 Jul 200810 WA3 1EGTerraced£138,000
5 Jul 200110 WA3 1EGTerraced£30,000
31 Mar 200011 WN7 3QSSemi-detached£47,500Leasehold.
19 Aug 201512 WA3 1EGTerraced£160,000Leasehold.
22 Aug 200712 WA3 1EGTerraced£168,500Leasehold.
25 Feb 200012 WA3 1EGTerraced£78,000Leasehold.
24 Mar 202013 WN7 3QSTerraced£155,000Leasehold.
16 Oct 200914 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£65,000
30 Nov 200514 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£131,000
2 Nov 200114 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£71,950
30 Jan 201514A WA3 1EGDetached£225,000Leasehold.
23 Nov 200714A WA3 1EGDetached£249,995Leasehold.
12 Nov 202115 WN7 3QSOther£199,950Leasehold. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
9 Sep 201916 WA3 1EGTerraced£129,000
13 Apr 201816 WA3 1EGTerraced£125,000
29 Aug 199716 WA3 1EGTerraced£36,500
28 Sep 201817 WN7 3QSSemi-detached£138,500
30 Nov 200617 WN7 3QSSemi-detached£130,500
1 Nov 199619 WN7 3QSSemi-detached£48,000Leasehold.
18 Mar 201120 WA3 1EGTerraced£165,000
28 Aug 199824 WA3 1EGTerraced£39,950
10 Sep 200434 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£123,000Leasehold.
28 Jan 202036 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£77,910New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jan 202038 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£77,910New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
14 Aug 202439 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£200,000Leasehold.
5 Jul 200739 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£144,950Leasehold.
28 Jan 202040 WA3 1EGTerraced£77,910New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
25 Jul 200841 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£130,000
28 Jan 202042 WA3 1EGTerraced£77,910New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jan 202044 WA3 1EGTerraced£77,910New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
28 Jan 202046 WA3 1EGTerraced£77,910New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Mar 202048 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£77,910New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
18 Mar 202050 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£77,910New build. Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
19 Jun 202052 WA3 1EGDetached£263,995New build.
29 May 202054 WA3 1EGDetached£246,995New build.
3 Aug 202256 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£204,000
29 May 202056 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£154,995New build.
29 May 202058 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£154,995New build.
29 May 202060 WA3 1EGDetached£236,995New build.
27 Nov 202061 WA3 1EGDetached£258,995New build.
29 Apr 202262 WA3 1EGTerraced£199,000
26 Jun 202062 WA3 1EGTerraced£147,995New build.
25 Sep 202063 WA3 1EGDetached£236,995New build.
26 Jun 202064 WA3 1EGTerraced£145,995New build.
25 Sep 202065 WA3 1EGDetached£246,995New build.
26 Jun 202066 WA3 1EGTerraced£147,995New build.
30 Oct 202067 WA3 1EGDetached£248,995New build.
31 Jul 202068 WA3 1EGDetached£199,995New build.
27 Nov 202069 WA3 1EGDetached£258,995New build.
30 Oct 202070 WA3 1EGDetached£246,995New build.
25 Sep 202071 WA3 1EGDetached£209,995New build.
25 Sep 202072 WA3 1EGDetached£258,995New build.
29 May 202073 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£149,995New build.
26 Jun 202074 WA3 1EGTerraced£126,995New build.
29 May 202075 WA3 1EGSemi-detached£149,995New build.
31 Jul 202076 WA3 1EGTerraced£124,995New build.
26 Jun 202077 WA3 1EGDetached£248,995New build.
26 Jun 202078 WA3 1EGTerraced£126,995New build.
25 Sep 202079 WA3 1EGDetached£246,995New build.
28 Aug 202080 WA3 1EGDetached£211,995New build.
17 Apr 202681 WA3 1EGDetached£272,000
28 Aug 202081 WA3 1EGDetached£191,495New build.
18 Dec 202082 WA3 1EGDetached£200,995New build.
2 May 202583 WA3 1EGTerraced£193,000
30 Oct 202083 WA3 1EGTerraced£126,995New build.
18 Dec 202084 WA3 1EGDetached£258,995New build.
4 Jun 202585 WA3 1EGTerraced£198,500
30 Oct 202085 WA3 1EGTerraced£124,995New build.
11 Feb 202186 WA3 1EGDetached£248,995New build.
19 Aug 202287 WA3 1EGTerraced£210,000
30 Oct 202087 WA3 1EGTerraced£126,995New build.
26 Feb 202188 WA3 1EGDetached£268,995New build.
23 Oct 202089 WA3 1EGDetached£226,995New build.
26 Feb 202290 WA3 1EGDetached£258,995New build.
1 Aug 202591 WA3 1EGDetached£325,000
27 Nov 202091 WA3 1EGDetached£258,995New build.
30 Nov 202093 WA3 1EGDetached£246,995New build.
18 Dec 202095 WA3 1EGDetached£268,995New build.
14 Dec 202097 WA3 1EGDetached£213,995New build.
15 Feb 202199 WA3 1EGDetached£248,995New build.
29 Jan 2021101 WA3 1EGDetached£268,995New build.
28 Jan 2021103 WA3 1EGDetached£258,995New build.
18 Dec 2020105 WA3 1EGDetached£238,995New build.
18 Dec 2020107 WA3 1EGDetached£209,995New build.

House prices and rents in Wigan

A typical home in Wigan cost £194,393 in August 2026, 2.8% more than a year before. That is 26% more than five years earlier and 66% more than ten years earlier.

HomeTypical price, Aug 2026
Detached£316,388
Semi-detached£202,942
Terraced£157,752
Flat or maisonette£106,371
Bought by a first-time buyer£175,758

Private renters in Wigan paid £749 a month on average in September 2026, 6.4% more than a year before. That is 41% more than five years earlier.

HomeAverage rent a month, Sep 2026
One bedroom£544
Two bedrooms£703
Three bedrooms£842
Four or more bedrooms£1,147

Sources: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry, with the ONS and the Welsh Government), to August 2026; ONS Price Index of Private Rents, to September 2026. Figures for the whole council area, not this street. The typical price is adjusted for the mix of homes that sold, so it is not the value of any one home; the street's own sales are above. Rents are the average paid on all private tenancies, new and existing, so they move more slowly than rents being advertised.

Energy performance certificates

Source: Energy Performance of Buildings Register (MHCLG), register as at 1 November 2026. Latest certificate per address; certificates last ten years, so the oldest here dates from April 2009 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

70 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 82 m². Most common: House, detached (30); House, semi-detached (21); House, end-terrace (10). Built: 2017 (49); 1967-1975 (11); before 1900 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (19); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (70 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 8,314 kWh of it on average in 2024, 24% less than the district's 10,901 kWh, and 2,854 kWh of electricity, 13% less than the district's 3,264 kWh. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WA3 1EG742,494 kWh 767,058 kWh
WN7 3QS111,915 kWh 129,728 kWh

These are all the homes on each postcode, whatever their size and however many live in them, so they show the kind of homes and heating here rather than what any one home uses. The typical figure is the median: half the homes used less. The district is WA3.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, postcode level domestic gas and electricity statistics for 2024 (gas from mid-May to mid-May), Open Government Licence: domestic meters on each postcode, from the gas and electricity industry's meter readings. A postcode with fewer than 5 meters of a fuel has no figures for it.

Council tax

What each band costs in Wigan in 2026-27: Band D £2,153 a year on average, including the police, fire and any county and parish charges.

ABCDEFGH
£1,435£1,674£1,913£2,153£2,631£3,109£3,588£4,305

Homes by band in the neighbourhood around this street: most are in band C (42% of about 740 homes).

Sources: Valuation Office Agency, Council Tax: stock of properties, homes at 31 March 2026 (counts rounded to the nearest 10; some small counts withheld), for the neighbourhood (census area of about 700 homes) around it, not just this street; Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, council tax levels 2026-27. Bands are charged as fixed shares of Band D; the actual bill depends on the parish and on discounts such as the single-person discount. Check a home's own band with the official council tax band checker.

Planning and heritage

  • Conservation area: no postcode centre in this street's postcodes is in one.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: none.
  • Article 4 direction (removing permitted development rights): none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Tree preservation orders: none recorded, though not every council has published theirs.
  • Green belt: no.

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), compiled from councils and, for listed buildings, Historic England's National Heritage List. Conservation areas, Article 4 directions, tree preservation areas and the green belt are checked at each postcode's centre. Listed buildings and protected trees are counted on or by this street. Councils publish Article 4 directions, tree preservation orders and brownfield registers to different standards, and some not yet. Planning applications are not here: there is no national open record of them yet.

Energy projects nearby

3 energy projects near the street's postcodes.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Risley '4' Landfill Scheme Landfill Gas 5.9 MW Operational May 1999 4.6 km (2.9 miles)
Risley Warrington 02/44000/ART10 Landfill Gas 2 MW Operational Nov 2003 4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Risley Sets 13 & 14 Landfill Gas 2.1 MW Operational Nov 2003 4.8 km (3 miles)

Planned projects can change or not go ahead; search the planning authority's applications by the reference shown for the plans, conditions and any objections. Construction brings traffic for some months; once built, solar farms and batteries are usually quiet, while turbines and waste plants can be seen or heard further away.

Source: Department for Energy Security and Net Zero, Renewable Energy Planning Database, Q2 2026 extract, Open Government Licence: renewable electricity and storage projects over 150 kW, operating, being built, permitted or applied for. Shown: wind turbines and plants that burn or digest waste within 5 km (3.1 miles), other projects of 1 MW or more within 2 km (1.2 miles); refused, withdrawn and abandoned projects are left out. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each project's grid reference.

Roadworks

Finished in the last three months

  • 15 September 2026 to 21 September 2026: SP Electricity North West, Utility repair and maintenance works, give and take, on the footway (immediate - urgent works)

Source: Department for Transport, Street Manager open data, permits and works up to 31 October 2026. It is published once a month, so works arranged or started since then are not shown, and dates are the ones planned unless the works have started or finished. Emergency works are often permitted after they begin.

Flood risk

Rivers, the sea or surface water: in this street's postcodes, 5 addresses are in areas at high risk, 2 at medium risk and 16 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: of the 78 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 2 low and 0 very low.

High: 3.3% (1 in 30) or more chance of flooding a year. Medium: 1% to 3.3%. Low: 0.1% to 1%. Very low: under 0.1%. The rivers and sea figures allow for flood defences. Counts cover whole postcodes, which can include other streets.

Flood zone for planning: no postcode centre on this street is in flood zone 2 or 3.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WA3 1EGnot in 2 or 3 4 / 2 / 9 unlikely
WN7 3QSnot in 2 or 3 1 / 0 / 7 unlikely

Recorded floods

No recorded flood covers the centre of any of this street's postcodes.

Recorded floods are where floodwater was seen or surveyed after a flood. Many floods were never mapped, an outline over a postcode's centre does not mean every home in it flooded, and homes outside one may have. Ask the seller whether the home itself has flooded.

Sources: Environment Agency Recorded Flood Outlines; Environment Agency Flood risk: postcode search tool data (loaded 29 October 2026), Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea: postcodes in areas at risk (loaded 29 October 2026) and Flood Map for Planning (loaded 28 October 2026). Flood zones are checked at each postcode's centre point. These are models of areas, which their publishers say are not suitable for showing whether an individual property is at risk, and they do not cover flooding from sewers or drains. Check an address on the official long-term flood risk service.

© Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2026. All rights reserved. Some features are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH); the postcode data is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, © Royal Mail Group Limited.

Coastal erosion

No projected coastal erosion zone is within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency, National Coastal Erosion Risk Mapping 2024 (England), and Natural Resources Wales, National Coastal Erosion Risk Management (Wales), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each zone; where a postcode centre is inside a zone, some homes on it may not be.

Storm overflows

2 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 43 times, for 78 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Hey Brook, Landside Brook Via Surface Water Sewer.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Robin Hood (Leigh) Pumping Station United Utilities Hey Brook 36 59 760 m (0.5 miles)
Robin Hood (Leigh) Pumping Station United Utilities Landside Brook Via Surface Water Sewer 7 19 760 m (0.5 miles)

A storm overflow lets sewage diluted with rainwater into a river, stream or the sea when heavy rain overwhelms the sewers, so the spills here affect the water they run into, not homes. A spill is counted the regulators' way: a first 12 hours, then each 24 hours it goes on.

Source: Environment Agency, Event Duration Monitoring storm overflow annual return for 2025, from the water companies' monitors on each overflow in England, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each overflow's outlet. A year's figures are published the following spring; a monitor that worked for less of the year undercounts.

Coal mining

2 of the street's 2 postcodes are in a coalfield, in a low risk area: coal was mined in the area, but no workings shallow enough to matter for building are recorded.

Conveyancers usually still order a coal mining search (CON29M) for a home in a coalfield.

Source: Mining Remediation Authority (formerly the Coal Authority), development high and low risk areas, Open Government Licence. Checked at each postcode's centre, so a home near the edge of an area may differ. It covers coal mining only, not other mining (such as tin, lead, iron or chalk), and is no substitute for a coal mining search. About the risk areas.

Radon

Every 1 km square the street's postcodes are in is in the lowest band of radon potential: fewer than 1 home in 100 is estimated to be at or above the Action Level. It is not a radon Affected Area.

Source: British Geological Survey and UK Health Security Agency, Indicative Atlas of Radon in Great Britain, Open Government Licence. Contains British Geological Survey materials © UKRI 2026. Each 1 km square is classed by the highest radon potential found anywhere in it, so a square's figure can overstate it for much of the square; the detailed map is not open data.

Historic landfill

No historic landfill site is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes.

Sources: Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales, historic landfill sites (places where waste was put into or onto the land and no environmental permit is now in force), Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to the edge of each site as mapped; the outlines and dates come from old records and can be approximate. Landfill still operating is not included.

Height above sea level

The street's 93 addresses are between 23 m and 25 m above sea level (24 m on average).

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Terrain 50, July 2026: the height of the ground on a 50 m grid, read at each address, in metres above Ordnance Datum (mean sea level at Newlyn). It is the lie of the land, not floor or threshold levels, and is accurate to a few metres. Being low-lying is not in itself a flood risk; the flood section above says what the flood maps show.

Broadband

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, data as at January 2026. Percentages are of premises in each postcode that can get the service, not take-up or speed achieved.

Availability by postcode (% of premises)
PostcodeSuperfast (30 Mbit/s+)Ultrafast (300 Mbit/s+)GigabitBelow 10 Mbit/s
WA3 1EG100%100%100%0%
WN7 3QS100%100%100%0%

Getting around

Sources: Department for Transport, NaPTAN (every public transport stop), as at 31 October 2026; Office of Rail and Road, Estimates of station usage 2024–25 (which stations are on the National Rail network, and their journeys: entries and exits in the year to March); OurAirports (public domain, kept by volunteers); car parks and charging points from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings from Meta, Microsoft, Foursquare and others: not an official register, so some will be missing, private or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street, not routes, and say nothing about how often anything runs. Stations opened since the end of ORR's year appear when ORR publishes the next one, each December; heritage railways are left out.

NearestDistance
Railway stationsNewton-Le-Willows 1.1 million journeys in 2024–255.5 km (3.4 miles)
Birchwood 437,000 journeys in 2024–256.8 km (4.2 miles)
Earlestown 331,000 journeys in 2024–257 km (4.4 miles)
Bus stops2 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 13 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Arlington Drive Wash End290 m
Bus or coach stationLeigh Bus Station2.8 km (1.7 miles)
EV charging pointsMFG Charging Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsManchester Airport MAN22.1 km (14 miles)

Local services

Sources: NHS Organisation Data Service, as at 31 October 2026: GP practices, community pharmacies and dental practices with an NHS contract, open now, each placed at the centre of its postcode; hospitals are NHS trust and Welsh health board sites named as hospitals, and may not have an emergency department. Ratings and care homes: Care Quality Commission, latest ratings as at 2 November 2026 (England only; the CQC does not rate dental practices, and Wales's inspectorates give no ratings). Police stations and cash machines from Overture Maps Foundation, release 2026-10-21.0, which gathers business listings: not an official register, so some will be missing or out of date. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street. Nothing here says whether a practice is taking new patients or a dentist new NHS patients.

NearestDistance
GP surgeries1 practice within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lowton & Platt Bridge Surgery Good Dec 20181.5 km (0.9 miles)
Pharmacies1 pharmacy within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Rowlands Pharmacy1.6 km (1 mile)
NHS dentistsHob Hey Lane Dental Practice2.4 km (1.5 miles)
HospitalLeight Infirmary Good Feb 20203.9 km (2.4 miles)
Care homesHigh Peak Residential and Nursing Home Good Mar 20232.4 km (1.5 miles)
Police stationLeigh Police Station3.1 km (1.9 miles)
Cash machinesRontec - Lanehead Cashzone2.2 km (1.4 miles)

Parks and green space

Source: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Greenspace, April 2026: public parks and gardens, play spaces, playing fields and allotments, with their entrances. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to a site's nearest entrance (or its edge where none is recorded), not walking routes; sizes are the area OS maps for each site. Some sites, such as school playing fields, may not be open to the public.

NearestDistance
Park or gardenPennington Flash Country Park 252 ha830 m (0.5 miles)
Play areaUnnamed 1,450 m²1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Playing fieldThe Meadows 6.1 ha1.1 km (0.7 miles)
AllotmentsUnnamed 7,270 m²1.8 km (1.1 miles)

Landmarks

2 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Aspull CommonWood1.1 km (0.7 miles) north
Pagoda WoodWood1.6 km (1 mile) south
The FlashLake or reservoir1.7 km (1 mile) north-west
Wellfield WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-east
Hope CarrWetland2.1 km (1.3 miles) north-east
Golborne DaleValley4.7 km (2.9 miles) west

Sources: Historic England's registers through planning.data.gov.uk (MHCLG), and Cadw through DataMapWales (Welsh Government): World Heritage Sites within 10 km (6.2 miles), battlefields within 5 km (3.1 miles), registered parks and gardens within 3 km (1.9 miles), scheduled monuments within 2 km (1.2 miles), and Grade I and II* listed buildings within 1 km (0.6 miles). Ordnance Survey, OS Open Names, October 2026: named hills, valleys, lakes, woods, wetlands and coast (it has no rivers). Distances are in a straight line to the middle of each site, and being on a register does not mean there is public access.

Air quality

Source: Defra, modelled background air pollution, annual means for 2024, for the 1 km square that holds the middle of the street. These are background levels, away from the kerb: beside a busy road nitrogen dioxide in particular can be several times higher. UK limits are the legal annual limits for England and Wales; the World Health Organization's 2021 guidelines are much stricter, and most towns and cities are above them.

Annual means in µg/m³ (micrograms per cubic metre of air)
PollutantHereUK limitWHO guideline
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)10.14010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)11.94015

All three are within the UK legal limits; nitrogen dioxide and PM2.5 are above the WHO guideline, as in most towns and cities.

Road and rail noise

Source: Defra, strategic noise mapping Round 4 (England), modelled for 2021 and published in December 2023, and its airport maps of the same round for the fifteen largest English airports, published in April 2026: Lden, the average sound level over a whole day with extra weight for the evening and night, on a 10 m grid, read at each address. These are models of traffic, not measurements; they leave out smaller airports and airfields, industry and neighbours, and a room at the back of a house is often much quieter than the front. The World Health Organization's guidelines are 53 dB for road traffic, 54 dB for railways and 45 dB for aircraft (below the lowest level shown here).

Addresses by modelled noise level (Lden, dB)
LevelRoad trafficRailways
60 to 6410
55 to 59170
Under 557593

18 of the street's 93 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, above the WHO guidelines.

Climate, daylight and earthquakes

Monthly temperatures and rainfall, sunrise and sunset through the year, and earthquakes recorded nearby since 1970 are much the same across the area, so they are worked out once for Wigan: see them on the Wigan page.

Nearest schools

Source: Get Information About Schools (Department for Education), 5 November 2026; Ofsted monthly management information as at September 2026. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street to the school; catchments and admissions are not shown. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives report-card grades by area, not one overall grade; older grades stand until a school is re-inspected.

SchoolPhaseAgesDistanceInspectionExam results
Gilded Hollins Community SchoolPrimary4–11510 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 97% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 97% in 2024 and 97% in 2023)
Lowton Church of England High SchoolSecondary11–16540 m (0.3 miles) Good (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 49.2 (47.5 in 2025 and 44.9 in 2024); 39.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
Lowton St Mary's CofE (Voluntary Aided) Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary3–11900 m (0.6 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 71% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 26% at the higher standard (2025; 64% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
Lowton Junior and Infant SchoolPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Jun 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good 56% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 9% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 71% in 2023)
Twiss Green Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–112 km (1.2 miles) Good (Nov 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 67% in 2024 and 84% in 2023)

Exam results are from the Department for Education's school performance tables (Explore Education Statistics, Open Government Licence), for all pupils at each school. The middle school in England had 63% at the expected standard at the end of primary school (2025), Attainment 8 of 46.0 at GCSE (2026) and an A level average of C+ (2025). Attainment 8 adds up a pupil's grades in eight GCSEs, with English and maths counted twice (90 is the most), averaged over the school's pupils. Progress 8 compares pupils with others who had the same results at the end of primary school; it is not published for GCSEs in 2025 and 2026, as those pupils sat no primary tests during the pandemic. Small year groups swing from year to year, and figures for very small ones are withheld.

Nurseries and childcare

2 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 930 m (0.6 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Kumon Lowton Study Centre WA3 1DQ Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 930 m (0.6 miles)
Cool Stars WA3 1EW Out-of-school day care 48 Not inspected yet 1 km (0.6 miles)

Ofsted also registers 109 childminders and 14 home childcarers (nannies) in Wigan. It does not publish their addresses, so they cannot be shown here; the council's family information service lists those taking children.

Source: Ofsted, childcare providers and inspections management information, as at June 2026, Open Government Licence: providers on the Early Years and Childcare Registers on non-domestic premises, placed at their postcode. Since November 2025 Ofsted gives a standard for each of six areas (Exceptional, Strong, Expected, Needs attention, Urgent improvement) rather than one overall grade; older grades stand until a provider is inspected again. Distances are straight lines from the middle of the street.

Food hygiene ratings nearby

Source: Food Standards Agency, Food Hygiene Rating Scheme, extract of 5 November 2026. Each rating is shown with the date it was given; a business may have been re-inspected since the extract. Within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the middle of the street.

No rated food businesses within 500 m (0.3 miles).

Crime within 250 m

Source: data.police.uk street-level crime, September 2025 to August 2026. Police forces move every crime to the nearest of about 760,000 anonymised map points before publishing, so these are crimes near this street, not on it, and a busy point can collect crimes from a wider area. Counts are of records, not convictions.

No crimes recorded at anonymised points within 250 m in this period (merseyside).

Road safety

Source: Department for Transport, road safety data (STATS19), collisions in 2021 to 2025, as published by November 2026. Collisions in which someone was hurt and which were reported to the police, within 150 m of the middle of any of this street's postcodes, or of the street. Severity is the worst injury as the police recorded it.

1 collision in which someone was hurt was reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 1 serious and 0 slight, in which 1 person was seriously hurt. 1 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a child under 16. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202311
202400
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
10 Mar 2023 15:08 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Daylight

Only collisions in which someone was hurt and which the police were told about are here: damage-only collisions and near misses are not, and some injuries are never reported. Positions are recorded by the police, usually to within a few metres. Each year's figures are published the following September.

Traffic on nearby roads

The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles) is the A580 between A572 and A579, with 37,275 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 360 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A572 A580(T) to A579 13,053 estimated; counted 2024 1% -6% since 2015 170 m
A580 A572 to A579 37,275 counted 2025 6% +3% since 2015 360 m

Each figure is the annual average daily flow: the motor vehicles passing the count point, both ways, on an average day of the year. A point is counted by hand on a weekday every few years and estimated from the trend on similar roads in between. Lorries are heavy goods vehicles, as a share of all motor vehicles.

Source: Department for Transport, road traffic statistics, annual average daily flows to 2025, Open Government Licence. Distances are from the nearest postcode centre to each count point.

People and work

Source: ONS Census 2021, taken on 21 March 2021, for the Output Area (a small census area of about 125 households) that this street's postcodes are in: 540 residents in 217 households. The census was taken during a lockdown, so working from home is high and travel to work low compared with now. ONS swaps a few records between neighbouring areas and adds small amounts of noise to counts to protect privacy, so small differences mean little. Industry is not published for areas this small.

Who lives here

Around this streetEngland
Median age3640
Children under 1522%17%
Aged 65 and over18%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)93%61%
Owned outright40%33%
Shared ownership0%1%
Social rented3%17%
Private rented4%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work68%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)2%6%
Retired (of adults)22%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)1%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)28%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus4%8%
On foot or by bicycle3%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)45%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away7%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)35%34%
No qualifications11%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification6%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)99%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 7 of 10 on the English Indices of Deprivation 2025, where 1 is the most deprived tenth of England's 33,755 neighbourhoods and 10 the least.

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government), by LSOA (about 1,500 people), through the ONS Postcode Directory. The index combines income, employment, health, education, crime, housing and living environment; it ranks areas against each other and does not describe any one household. Ranks in England and Wales are worked out separately and cannot be compared.

What has changed

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Postcodes on this street

Source: ONS Postcode Directory August 2026, ONS UPRN Directory September 2026, OS Open Linked Identifiers September 2026. A postcode can cover more than one street; the share shows how many of its addresses are on this one.

Nearby streets

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What this page cannot tell you

  • Whether a particular house is at risk of flooding, subsiding or anything else: the flood map is a model of areas and there is no property-level data here.
  • What a home is worth now: sales are historic prices for the homes that happened to sell.
  • How safe the street is: crime points are moved to anonymised locations and many crimes are never reported; road collisions count only those in which someone was hurt and the police were told.
  • Whether you would get a place at a school: distances are straight lines, not catchments.
  • Who lives on the street now: census figures describe the small areas around it in March 2021, during a lockdown.
  • How long a journey takes or how often anything runs: transport distances are straight lines to the nearest stops.
  • Whether a GP practice is taking new patients, or a dentist new NHS patients.
  • How loud a home is inside, or noise from industry, neighbours or smaller airfields: noise figures are models of road, rail and air traffic outside.

How each figure on this page is matched to the street and worked out: methodology.