Derby Road Golborne, Wigan

111 addresses across 9 postcodes (WA3), about 780 m (0.5 miles) long, classed as a local road. USRN 44100979.

  • Sales: 64 recorded sales since 1995; in 2025 the median was £202,000 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: 67 homes have an energy certificate (B: 1, C: 17, D: 46, E: 3).
  • Flood: 2 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: 1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 2 times (13 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.
  • Energy projects: 1 renewable energy project nearby is planned or being built; the nearest, Winwick Link Road, Winwick - Anaerobic Digestion Facility, is 4.6 km (2.9 miles) away.
  • 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 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Newton-Le-Willows, about 3.2 km (2 miles) away in a straight line.
  • Green space: The nearest park or garden is about 910 m (0.6 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 10.5 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 7.0 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 37 to 42 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 3 of its 111 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is High Street Surgery, about 580 m (0.4 miles) away, with 5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 1,650 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 56% of households owned their home and 19% of adults held a degree or other higher qualification.
  • Road safety: 7 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around it in 2021 to 2025; 2 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
20251£202,000£202,000£202,000
20231£183,000£183,000£183,000
20223£160,000£157,250£184,000
20212£158,500£155,000£162,000
20203£125,000£118,950£140,000
20193£120,000£75,000£139,000
20162£98,000£91,000£105,000
20151£84,000£84,000£84,000
20142£94,000£76,000£112,000
20131£75,000£75,000£75,000
20101£67,500£67,500£67,500
20082£104,750£96,500£113,000
All 64 sales, by house number
DateAddressTypePriceNotes
3 May 19961 WA3 3DZSemi-detached£37,000
28 Oct 20225 WA3 3DZSemi-detached£150,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
22 Nov 19965 WA3 3DZSemi-detached£33,500
10 Sep 20206 WA3 3EDSemi-detached£118,950
9 Jan 20157 WA3 3DZSemi-detached£84,000
1 Feb 20077 WA3 3DZSemi-detached£119,500
19 Dec 20017 WA3 3DZSemi-detached£55,000
23 May 202411 WA3 3DZSemi-detached£110,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
26 Apr 201016 WA3 3LDSemi-detached£67,500
10 Oct 200317 WA3 3DZSemi-detached£78,000
10 Oct 200017 WA3 3DZSemi-detached£33,950
9 Aug 200223 WA3 3LESemi-detached£47,500
3 Dec 200123 WA3 3LESemi-detached£27,000
4 Nov 200224 WA3 3LDSemi-detached£25,080
26 Aug 201629 WA3 3LESemi-detached£91,000
18 Mar 200429 WA3 3LETerraced£65,000
12 Sep 200733 WA3 3LESemi-detached£94,000
30 Nov 200633 WA3 3LESemi-detached£87,566
10 Feb 200633 WA3 3LESemi-detached£85,000
7 Jan 200033 WA3 3LESemi-detached£38,950
26 Apr 200240 WA3 3LDSemi-detached£43,000
30 Apr 199940 WA3 3LDSemi-detached£36,000
30 Sep 202141 WA3 3LESemi-detached£162,000
8 Nov 201345 WA3 3LESemi-detached£75,000
31 May 200246 WA3 3LDSemi-detached£54,950
16 Nov 202347 WA3 3LESemi-detached£162,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
2 Aug 200747 WA3 3LESemi-detached£85,000
12 Nov 200247 WA3 3LESemi-detached£54,000
3 Mar 200047 WA3 3LESemi-detached£26,600
15 Jun 202357 WA3 3LESemi-detached£183,000
29 Apr 202257 WA3 3LESemi-detached£160,000
27 May 201657 WA3 3LESemi-detached£105,000
29 Aug 200857 WA3 3LESemi-detached£113,000
9 Nov 199958 WA3 3LDTerraced£33,500
27 Jan 200660 WA3 3LDSemi-detached£98,000
24 Jan 202064 WA3 3LDSemi-detached£98,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
8 May 200864 WA3 3LDSemi-detached£96,500
18 Feb 202265 WA3 3LESemi-detached£157,250
7 Jan 201965 WA3 3LESemi-detached£75,000
2 Nov 202067 WA3 3LESemi-detached£125,000
23 May 200367 WA3 3LESemi-detached£75,000
7 Mar 199767 WA3 3LESemi-detached£34,000
6 Jun 201472 WA3 3LDSemi-detached£76,000
26 Sep 201475 WA3 3JJSemi-detached£112,000
27 Mar 200275 WA3 3JJSemi-detached£41,000
17 Aug 200175 WA3 3JJSemi-detached£21,000
26 Oct 200183 WA3 3JJSemi-detached£35,000
25 Jun 200484 WA3 3LASemi-detached£85,000
17 Dec 201985 WA3 3JJSemi-detached£139,000
30 Jul 199686 WA3 3LASemi-detached£30,000
20 Dec 202391 WA3 3JJSemi-detached£148,888Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
12 Oct 200791 WA3 3JJSemi-detached£94,000
30 Apr 200191 WA3 3JJSemi-detached£25,000
5 Oct 200493 WA3 3JJSemi-detached£85,000
11 Oct 202196 WA3 3JNSemi-detached£155,000
24 May 2019102 WA3 3JNTerraced£120,000
16 Jul 2004102 WA3 3JNTerraced£81,000
13 Oct 2023112 WA3 3JNSemi-detached£158,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).
5 Jun 2000114 WA3 3JNSemi-detached£36,500
13 Jun 2022118 WA3 3JNSemi-detached£184,000
20 Jan 2020118 WA3 3JNSemi-detached£140,000
20 Sep 2006118 WA3 3JNSemi-detached£95,000
25 Jul 2025124 WA3 3JNTerraced£202,000
3 May 2017GOLBORNE HOUSE WA3 3JLOther£1,673,000Not a standard sale (repossession, buy-to-let or transfer).

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.

67 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 83 m². Most common: House, semi-detached (67). Built: 1950-1966 (34); 1930-1949 (31); 1900-1929 (1). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (27); rented (social) (22); rented (private) (9).

Each home's certificates and sales (67 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 9,337 kWh of it on average in 2024, 14% less than the district's 10,901 kWh, and 3,245 kWh of electricity, about the same as the district. There are gas meters for about 100% of the homes.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WA3 3LD292,492 kWh 287,918 kWh
WA3 3LE272,997 kWh 2711,175 kWh
WA3 3JN163,372 kWh 1711,141 kWh
WA3 3JJ122,746 kWh 126,449 kWh
WA3 3DZ92,559 kWh 108,749 kWh
WA3 3ED72,940 kWh 76,432 kWh
WA3 3LA52,252 kWh 510,415 kWh
WA3 3LP202,400 kWh 197,638 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 neighbourhoods around this street: most are in band A (70% of about 1,350 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 2 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

1 energy project near the street's postcodes, 1 of it not yet operating.

ProjectKindSizeStageDistance
Winwick Link Road, Winwick - Anaerobic Digestion Facility Warrington 2025/00859/FULM Anaerobic digestion 1 MW Planning application made Jul 2025 4.6 km (2.9 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

  • 7 September 2026 to 10 September 2026: SP Electricity North West, Utility repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the footway, verge (immediate - urgent works)
  • 13 July 2026 to 19 August 2026: CADENT GAS LIMITED, Utility asset works, give and take, on the footway, 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, 2 at medium risk and 3 at low risk. Each address counts once, at the higher of its rivers-and-sea and surface-water risk.

Rivers and the sea alone: no home is in an area at risk.

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 3LDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA3 3LEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA3 3JNnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 3 unlikely
WA3 3JJnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA3 3DZnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA3 3EDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA3 3LAnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WA3 3JLnot in 2 or 3 0 / 1 / 0 unlikely
WA3 3LPnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 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

1 storm overflow within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 2 times, for 13 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into Newton Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Mill Lane (Golborne) Cso United Utilities Newton Brook 2 13 560 m (0.3 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

9 of the street's 9 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

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.

By postcode centre: less than 1% (9); 1 to 3% (1).

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 111 addresses are between 37 m and 42 m above sea level (40 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 3DZ100%100%100%0%
WA3 3ED100%100%100%0%
WA3 3JJ100%100%100%0%
WA3 3JL100%100%100%0%
WA3 3JN100%100%100%0%
WA3 3LA100%100%100%0%
WA3 3LD100%100%100%0%
WA3 3LE100%100%100%0%
WA3 3LP100%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 2024–253.2 km (2 miles)
Earlestown 331,000 journeys in 2024–254.4 km (2.7 miles)
Bryn 105,000 journeys in 2024–254.7 km (2.9 miles)
Bus stops15 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 42 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Naylor Avenue Golborne40 m
Bus or coach stationEarlestown Bus Station4.6 km (2.8 miles)
Car parksPremier Inn Haydock Car Park900 m (0.6 miles)
EV charging points1 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest InstaVolt Charging Station920 m (0.6 miles)
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL23.5 km (15 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 surgeries5 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest High Street Surgery580 m (0.4 miles)
Pharmacies5 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Gpharmacy Direct550 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists3 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Lowton Dental Practice510 m (0.3 miles)
HospitalNewton Community Hospital4.7 km (2.9 miles)
Care homes3 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Golborne House Residential Care Home Good Jan 2024200 m
Police stationAshton in Makerfield Police Station3.8 km (2.3 miles)
Cash machines3 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Am To Pm Golborne, Golborne90 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 gardenUnnamed 6,990 m²910 m (0.6 miles)
Play area1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 250 m²320 m
Playing field4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1.7 ha260 m
Allotments2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,880 m²380 m

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Battle of Winwick (also known as Battle of Red Bank) 1648, a registered battlefield, 4.4 km (2.7 miles) south. 4 listed buildings are within 1 km (0.6 miles).

Historic places
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Battle of Winwick (also known as Battle of Red Bank) 1648Registered battlefield4.4 km (2.7 miles) south
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Byrom woodWood1.4 km (0.8 miles) north-east
Apple AcreWood1.6 km (1 mile) south
White Door DamLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) west
Colonel's WoodWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Park PlantationWood1.8 km (1.1 miles) south-west
Golborne DaleValley2.1 km (1.3 miles) south-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)10.54010
Fine particles (PM2.5)7.0205
Particles (PM10)11.84015

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
55 to 5930
Under 55108111

3 of the street's 111 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), 4 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
All Saints Catholic Primary School, Golborne, Wigan Roman CatholicPrimary3–11420 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 68% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 55% in 2024 and 63% in 2023)
Golborne High SchoolSecondary11–16430 m (0.3 miles) Outstanding (Jan 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 45.1 (50.1 in 2025 and 48.2 in 2024); 47.6% grade 5+ in English and maths
St Thomas CofE Junior and Infant School Church of EnglandPrimary4–11440 m (0.3 miles) Good (Feb 2020, overall grade under the previous framework) 67% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 13% at the higher standard (2025; 59% in 2024 and 40% in 2023)
Lowton West Primary SchoolPrimary4–11490 m (0.3 miles) No published inspection 63% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 10% at the higher standard (2025; 70% in 2024 and 78% in 2023)
Golborne Community Primary SchoolPrimary3–11850 m (0.5 miles) Good (Feb 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 89% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 11% at the higher standard (2025; 69% in 2024 and 86% in 2023)
St Luke's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.7 miles) No published inspection 90% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 23% at the higher standard (2025; 84% in 2024 and 88% in 2023)
St Catherine's Catholic Primary School, Lowton Roman CatholicPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 miles) No published inspection 73% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 3% at the higher standard (2025; 72% in 2024 and 73% 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

7 nurseries, pre-schools and clubs within 1.5 km (0.9 miles), the nearest 330 m from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Little Angels St Thomas WA3 3TH Sessional day care 20 May 2026: Expected standard in 6 areas 330 m
Barton Day Nurseries Golborne WA3 3EY Full day care 52 Good (Aug 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 350 m
Jumping Jacks Before and Afterschool Club WA3 2RZ Out-of-school day care 24 Not inspected yet 660 m (0.4 miles)
Little Angels Day Nursery WA3 3DG Full day care 25 Good (Jul 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 810 m (0.5 miles)
Little Angels Preschool WA3 3DG Full day care 62 Good (Apr 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 810 m (0.5 miles)
Little Angels Day Nursery WA3 3NN Full day care 52 Good (May 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 850 m (0.5 miles)
Woodland Adventure Nursery WA3 3QA Full day care 94 Good (Jun 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 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 4 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
Golborne House Residential Home WA3 3LEHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises50 m5 Very good13 Jan 2026
AM To PM Store - Golborne WA3 3LBRetailers - other120 m2 Improvement necessary8 Aug 2026
Golborne Fry WA3 3HUTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m4 Good2 Jul 2026
All Saints Wraparound Care WA3 3LUSchool/college/university280 m4 Good24 Feb 2026
All Saints Nursery WA3 3LUSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good13 Feb 2025
Orian Solutions Ltd at All Saints Catholic Primary School WA3 3LUSchool/college/university280 m5 Very good28 Jan 2026
Hare & Hounds WA3 2DPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen330 m5 Very good30 Mar 2026
Local Kitchen St Thomas`s Ce J&I School WA3 3THSchool/college/university330 m4 Good28 Jan 2026
Barton Day Nurseries - Golborne WA3 3EYHospitals/Childcare/Caring Premises340 m3 Generally satisfactory9 Jun 2026
Golborne Parkside Sports & Community Club, WA3 3HGPub/bar/nightclub380 m5 Very good28 Feb 2026
Governing Body of Golborne High School WA3 3ELSchool/college/university430 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good3 Jul 2025
Garden Café WA3 2EBRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen440 m (0.3 miles)5 Very good20 Jun 2025
Church Street Chippy WA3 3TJTakeaway/sandwich shop500 m (0.3 miles)4 Good30 Oct 2024

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.

7 collisions in which someone was hurt were reported on and around the street in 2021 to 2025: 0 fatal, 0 serious and 7 slight. 2 involved a pedestrian; 2 involved a child under 16. 57% happened in the dark, and 43% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202120
202200
202330
202420
202500
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
18 May 2024 09:59 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian, 1 child Minor road, 20 mph Daylight
23 Jan 2024 18:00 Slight 1 person B5207, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
23 Nov 2023 15:30 Slight 2 people: 1 child Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
14 Nov 2023 19:20 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
5 Sep 2023 18:00 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
7 Nov 2021 18:00 Slight 1 person Minor road, 20 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
24 Jun 2021 13:35 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian 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

No traffic count point is within 500 m (0.3 miles) of the street's postcodes. The Department for Transport counts every motorway and A road and only a sample of minor roads, so a quiet residential street usually has none.

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 5 Output Areas (small census areas of about 125 households each) that this street's postcodes are in: 1,650 residents in 652 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 age3840
Children under 1520%17%
Aged 65 and over17%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)56%61%
Owned outright25%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented33%17%
Private rented10%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work58%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)6%6%
Retired (of adults)20%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)7%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)16%32%
Travel to work by car or van65%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tramunder 1%4%
By any public transport, including bus5%8%
On foot or by bicycle12%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)71%65%
Work 30 km (19 miles) or more away4%8%

Education and languages

Around this streetEngland
Degree or other higher qualification, Level 4+ (of adults)19%34%
No qualifications28%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)98%91%
Cannot speak English well or at allunder 1%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhoods around this street are all in decile 2 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.

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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.