Crompton Street Wigan

128 addresses across 7 postcodes (WN1), about 270 m long, classed as a a road. USRN 44100896.

  • Sales: 6 recorded sales since 1995; in 2021 the median was £58,000 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: 71 homes have an energy certificate (B: 10, C: 44, D: 14, E: 3).
  • Flood: 1 address on its postcodes is in areas at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers, the sea or surface water.
  • Recorded floods: 1 recorded flood covered 1 of its 7 postcode centres, most recently in December 2015.
  • Coal mining: 4 of its postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area; ask for a coal mining search.
  • Storm overflows: 3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 132 times (262 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 1 to 3% of homes in the 1 km squares around it are estimated to be at or above the radon Action Level.
  • Gas: No gas meters are recorded on its postcodes: it looks to be off the mains gas grid.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Orrell Street Battery Energy Storage Facility, is 530 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Traffic: The busiest counted road within 500 m (0.3 miles), the A49, carries 41,898 motor vehicles a day on average (2025).
  • Council tax: Most homes around it are in council tax band A; Band D in Wigan costs £2,153 a year in 2026-27.
  • Broadband: Gigabit broadband is available to 91% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wigan Wallgate, about 400 m (0.2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden, Gerrard Winstanley Gardens, is about 180 m away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 13.6 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.8 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 33 to 38 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 128 of its 128 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mesnes View Surgery, about 400 m (0.2 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,020 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 9% of households owned their home and 20% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Road safety: 9 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025, 2 of them fatal or serious; 5 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
20211£58,000£58,000£58,000
20201£41,000£41,000£41,000
20192£45,975£39,950£52,000
20161£56,000£56,000£56,000
20101£42,500£42,500£42,500
All 6 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 Dec 201956, CROMPTON HOUSE WN1 3RHFlat or maisonette£39,950Leasehold.
23 Mar 202157, CROMPTON HOUSE WN1 3RHFlat or maisonette£58,000Leasehold.
5 Jul 201975, CROMPTON HOUSE WN1 3RHFlat or maisonette£52,000Leasehold.
30 Nov 201675, CROMPTON HOUSE WN1 3RHFlat or maisonette£56,000Leasehold.
12 Feb 202095, CROMPTON HOUSE WN1 3RHFlat or maisonette£41,000Leasehold.
12 Nov 201095, CROMPTON HOUSE WN1 3RHFlat or maisonette£42,500Leasehold.

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 November 2008 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

71 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 61 m². Most common: Flat (71). Built: 1967-1975 (61); 1950-1966 (9); 1976-1982 (1). Tenure at assessment: rented (social) (46); rented (private) (5); owner-occupied (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (71 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

No gas meters are recorded on the street's postcodes, against 153 electricity meters: it looks to be off the mains gas grid, or almost, with heating from electricity, oil, LPG or solid fuel (137 meters are on Economy 7, the off-peak tariff for storage heaters).

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WN1 3RH51 45 Economy 72,454 kWh none recorded
WN1 3RQ49 43 Economy 73,349 kWh none recorded
WN1 3RW53 49 Economy 72,643 kWh none recorded

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 WN1.

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.

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

Homes by band in the neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (79% of about 3,440 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 3 neighbourhoods (census areas of about 700 homes each) 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.

Brownfield land registered for housing within 1 km (0.6 miles)

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

2 energy projects near the street's postcodes, 1 of them not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Orrell Street Battery Energy Storage Facility Wigan A/23/95931/MAJOR Battery storage 50 MW Permission granted, not yet built Feb 2026 530 m (0.3 miles)
Kirkless Power Landfill Gas 2.1 MW Operational Dec 2004 2.4 km (1.5 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

Started, not reported finished by 31 October 2026

  • 10 September 2026: WIGAN METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 10 September 2026: WIGAN METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (minor works)
  • 10 September 2026: WIGAN METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (minor works)

Planned, as of 31 October 2026

  • 23 November 2026 to 25 November 2026: WIGAN METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, road closure, on the carriageway (major 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, 0 addresses are in areas at high risk, 1 at medium risk and 159 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 157 homes the Environment Agency counts, 0 are in areas at high risk, 0 medium, 157 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: at least one postcode centre is in flood zone 2. Zone 2 is between 0.1% and 1% a year from rivers (0.1% and 0.5% from the sea), ignoring defences.

PostcodePlanning zoneAddresses at high / medium / low riskGroundwater
WN1 3RHzone 2 0 / 0 / 54 unlikely
WN1 3RQzone 2 0 / 0 / 49 unlikely
WN1 1YPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 2 unlikely
WN1 1BNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WN1 3SLzone 2 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
WN1 1BHnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WN1 3RWzone 2 0 / 0 / 54 unlikely

Recorded floods

1 recorded flood covered 1 of the centres of this street's postcodes, most recently in December 2015 (Crompton Street, Wigan; drainage).

WhenFloodSource and causePostcodes
26 Dec 2015Crompton Street, Wigan Drainage WN1 3SL

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

3 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 132 times, for 262 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Douglas, River Douglas Via Sws.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Central Park Cso 50090 United Utilities River Douglas 91 227 570 m (0.4 miles)
Bradshaw Street Cso United Utilities River Douglas Via Sws 27 22 790 m (0.5 miles)
Chestnut Road Cso United Utilities River Douglas Via Sws 14 14 790 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

4 of the street's 7 postcodes are in a coal mining high risk area, where coal mining features at or near the surface, such as shallow workings or old mine shafts, are recorded or likely and could affect the ground. 3 more are elsewhere in the coalfield, at low risk.

Ask your conveyancer for a coal mining search (CON29M) on the home: it says what is recorded beneath and near it, and whether there have been claims for subsidence damage.

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

The highest radon potential in the 1 km squares around the street's postcodes is 1 to 3%: up to that share of homes there is estimated to be at or above the Action Level of 200 becquerels per cubic metre. At least part of that area is a radon Affected Area, where 1% or more of homes are.

Radon is a natural radioactive gas from the ground that can build up indoors; long exposure raises the risk of lung cancer. A three-month test with two small detectors is the only way to know a home's level, and a high level can usually be brought down with a sump or better ventilation. UKHSA sells a radon report for a single address from its detailed map at ukradon.org.

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 128 addresses are between 33 m and 38 m above sea level (34 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
WN1 1BH100%98%98%0%
WN1 1BN100%100%100%0%
WN1 1YP100%91%91%0%
WN1 3RH100%100%100%0%
WN1 3RQ100%100%100%0%
WN1 3RW100%100%100%0%
WN1 3SL100%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 stationsWigan Wallgate 1.3 million journeys in 2024–25400 m (0.2 miles)
Wigan North Western 1.4 million journeys in 2024–25520 m (0.3 miles)
Ince (Manchester) 13,000 journeys in 2024–251.6 km (1 mile)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 45 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Grand Arcade Wigan10 m
Bus or coach stationWigan Bus Station260 m
Car parks5 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Buzz Bingo - Wigan Car Park Prebook130 m
EV charging points4 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station40 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL27.8 km (17 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 surgeries6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Mesnes View Surgery400 m (0.2 miles)
Pharmacies8 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hollowood Chemist130 m
NHS dentists5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery250 m
HospitalWrightington Hospital Orthopaedic Centre Elective Surgical Hub Good Feb 20207.1 km (4.4 miles)
Care homes4 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St George's (Wigan) Limited Good Dec 2021450 m (0.3 miles)
Police stationWigan Police Station1.8 km (1.1 miles)
Cash machines6 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cash machine 58-62 Market Place Halifax170 m

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 garden7 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Gerrard Winstanley Gardens 1,910 m²180 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Haigh Woodland Park 169 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Play area4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 530 m²340 m
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha540 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 430 m²680 m (0.4 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 7 parks and gardens, 182 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of St John, a listed building (Grade II*), 210 m north-east. 97 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles), 6 of them Grade II*.

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Church of St JohnListed building, Grade II*210 m north-east
Church of All SaintsListed building, Grade II*270 m south-west
War Memorial South of Church of All Saints With Encircling RailingsListed building, Grade II*290 m south-west
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*320 m north-east
Mabs Cross on Standishgate, 20m west of Mabs Cross School buildingScheduled monument430 m (0.3 miles) north
Mesnes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II720 m (0.4 miles) north-west
Haigh Sough mine drainage portal, 310m west of Park HouseScheduled monument1.5 km (0.9 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Whalley's BasinLake or reservoir1.1 km (0.7 miles) south-east
Bottling WoodWood1.3 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Whitley ReservoirLake or reservoir1.6 km (1 mile) north
Haigh Lower PlantationsWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Danes ValleyValley4 km (2.5 miles) east
Tucker's HillHill4.7 km (2.9 miles) north-east

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)13.64010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.8205
Particles (PM10)11.24015

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
70 to 7410
65 to 6910
60 to 641120
55 to 59140
Under 550128

128 of the street's 128 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
St Mary and St John Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11350 m Outstanding (Mar 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 81% in 2024 and 77% in 2023)
Wigan and Leigh College16 plus16–99360 m No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C; 7.7% AAB or better; progress average
Douglas Valley Nursery SchoolNursery2–5420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection
Mab's Cross Primary SchoolPrimary4–11430 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Strong standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Strong standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Early years: Strong standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 57% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 12% at the higher standard (2025; 71% in 2024 and 69% in 2023)
The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form CollegeSecondary11–18530 m (0.3 miles) Report card (Jun 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Expected standard; Achievement: Expected standard; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Post-16 provision: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 45.2 (45.7 in 2025 and 44.0 in 2024); 44.8% grade 5+ in English and maths
A level 2025: average grade C-; 13.3% AAB or better; progress average
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–11700 m (0.4 miles) No overall grade (Jan 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Good; Behaviour and attitudes: Outstanding; Personal development: Outstanding; Leadership and management: Good 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 75% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
St Catharine's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11860 m (0.5 miles) Good (Jun 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 38% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 40% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
Dean Trust Rose BridgeSecondary11–161.3 km (0.8 miles) No overall grade (Mar 2025, graded inspection without an overall judgement): Quality of education: Requires improvement; Behaviour and attitudes: Good; Personal development: Good; Leadership and management: Good GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 38.9 (39.7 in 2025 and 37.4 in 2024); 34.1% grade 5+ in English and maths
Britannia Bridge Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.3 km (0.8 miles) Good (Apr 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 50% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 68% in 2024 and 57% in 2023)
Canon Sharples Church of England Primary School and NurseryPrimary3–111.4 km (0.9 miles) No published inspection 58% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 5% at the higher standard (2025; 65% in 2024 and 58% in 2023)
Wigan St Andrew's CofE Junior and Infant School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Report card (Apr 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Expected standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Needs attention; Early years: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 0% at the higher standard (2025; 30% in 2024 and 40% in 2023)
St William's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.7 km (1.1 miles) No published inspection 54% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 52% in 2024 and 40% 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

The ten nearest nurseries, pre-schools and clubs are all within 1.4 km (0.9 miles); the nearest is 250 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Heron Day Nursery WN1 1XH Full day care 148 Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 250 m
Little Acorns Day Nursery WN1 2AA Full day care 100 Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 290 m
Busy Bees Day Nursery at Wigan Scholes WN1 3QS Full day care 94 Good (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 440 m (0.3 miles)
Parsons Walk Nursery WN1 1RU Full day care 44 Good (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 590 m (0.4 miles)
Mighty Oaks @ New Lodge WN1 2ND Out-of-school day care 30 Dec 2025: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 3 940 m (0.6 miles)
Busy Bees Day Nursery at Wigan Marylebone WN1 2JJ Full day care 76 Good (Nov 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 1 km (0.6 miles)
The Wendy House Nursery WN3 5AB Full day care 58 Good (Jul 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Little Acorns Day Nursery (Springfield) WN6 7AS Full day care 40 Apr 2026: Needs attention in 1 area, Urgent improvement in 5 1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Daisy Daycare Academy WN1 3HN Full day care 30 Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.8 miles)
Confidence club ltd WN6 7AU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.4 km (0.9 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.

BusinessTypeDistanceRatingRated
RJR Mini Market WN1 1YPRetailers - other20 mAwaiting inspection
Buzz Bingo WN1 1YPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen20 m5 Very good3 Mar 2025
Frango WN1 1YPTakeaway/sandwich shop20 m2 Improvement necessary1 Oct 2025
Krunchy’s WN1 1UPTakeaway/sandwich shop40 mAwaiting inspection
Imagine That Wigan WN1 1UFRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen60 m5 Very good22 Oct 2026
Caffe Nero WN1 1UERestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m5 Very good3 Mar 2025
Greenhalghs WN1 1UERetailers - other70 m5 Very good12 May 2026
B & M Stores WN1 1UERetailers - other70 m4 Good10 Mar 2025
Ryan Mini Mart WN1 1UPRetailers - other70 m5 Very good3 Dec 2025
McDonalds WN1 1UPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 m4 Good27 Jul 2026
Kung Fu WN1 1UPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 mAwaiting inspection
Grandad Jims Traditional Sweet Shoppe WN1 1UPRetailers - other70 m1 Major improvement necessary31 Oct 2025
Ukulele WN1 1UPPub/bar/nightclub70 m3 Generally satisfactory13 Feb 2026
Romey's WN1 1QPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen70 mAwaiting inspection
Avid Sweets WN1 1QHRetailers - other70 m5 Very good20 Oct 2022

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.

9 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 2 serious and 7 slight, in which 2 people were seriously hurt. 5 involved a pedestrian; 1 involved a cyclist; 1 involved a child under 16. 11% happened in the dark, and 11% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202131
202220
202320
202410
202511
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
7 Apr 2025 13:20 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
17 Jul 2024 07:28 Slight 1 person: 1 cyclist A573, 30 mph Daylight
2 Feb 2023 08:30 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian B5238, 30 mph Daylight
26 Jan 2023 07:00 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Dark, no street lights
18 Nov 2022 08:15 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 20 mph Wet road
23 Apr 2022 13:55 Slight 1 person A49, 30 mph Daylight
16 Nov 2021 12:00 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
19 May 2021 17:49 Slight 3 people A49, 30 mph Daylight
5 Apr 2021 19:00 Slight 1 person B5238, 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 A49 between A49 Queen St and A577 mid-intersection, with 41,898 motor vehicles a day on average in 2025, 490 m (0.3 miles) from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A573 A577 to A49 9,642 estimated; counted 2018 1% -16% since 2015 20 m
A49 A577 mid-intersection to A573 19,625 estimated; counted 2020 2% -3% since 2015 60 m
A577 A49 to A573 16,384 estimated; counted 2018 2% 320 m
A49 A49 Queen St to A577 mid-intersection 41,898 counted 2025 2% +28% since 2015 490 m (0.3 miles)

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 4 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,021 residents in 596 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 age4240
Children under 1511%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)9%61%
Owned outright5%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented61%17%
Private rented28%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work41%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)15%6%
Retired (of adults)18%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)14%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van39%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram4%4%
By any public transport, including bus15%8%
On foot or by bicycle27%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)69%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)20%34%
No qualifications31%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification7%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)88%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all4%2%

Deprivation

The 3 neighbourhoods around this street are in deciles 1 to 3 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

  • Food hygiene ratings Little Dessert Shop Wigan (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WN1 1LR) now 4 Good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 30 September 2026) found 5 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Iso Wigan (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WN1 1LR) now 1 Major improvement necessary, was Awaiting inspection (rated 30 September 2026) found 5 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings Holy Grounds (retailers - other, WN1 1NL) now 3 Generally satisfactory, was Awaiting inspection (rated 29 September 2026) found 4 November 2026
  • Roadworks Street works permit: WIGAN METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL: Highway repair and maintenance works, 23 November 2026 to 25 November 2026 (road closure) found 3 November 2026
  • Food hygiene ratings We Care For You (restaurant/cafe/canteen, WN1 1HX) now 4 Good, was Awaiting inspection (rated 27 September 2026) found 3 November 2026

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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.

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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.