Frog Lane Wigan

36 addresses across 8 postcodes (WN1), about 370 m long, classed as a minor road. USRN 44101016.

  • 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: 16 homes have an energy certificate (B: 3, C: 9, D: 3, E: 1).
  • Flood: 5 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: 4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) spilled 156 times (416 hours) in 2025.
  • Radon: Up to 10 to 30% 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, Orrell Street Battery Energy Storage Facility, is 610 m (0.4 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 0% to 100% of premises.
  • Transport: The nearest railway station is Wigan Wallgate, about 270 m away in a straight line.
  • Green space: There is a small park or garden about 160 m away, and Mesnes Park (11 hectares) is about 510 m (0.3 miles) away.
  • Air: Background air pollution in 2024 was 11.7 µg/m³ of nitrogen dioxide and 6.7 of PM2.5, within UK legal limits.
  • Height: Its addresses are 33 to 40 m above sea level.
  • Noise: 16 of its 36 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic.
  • Doctors: The nearest GP surgery is Mesnes View Surgery, about 560 m (0.3 miles) away, with 6 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile).
  • People: About 340 people lived in the census areas around it in 2021; 8% of households owned their home and 28% 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, 4 of them fatal or serious; 6 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.

No sales recorded on this street since January 1995 under this street name.

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 July 2010 and some homes have none. Address data © Ordnance Survey and Royal Mail, shown for understanding the energy efficiency of buildings only.

16 homes with a current certificate; median floor area 74 m². Most common: Flat (11); House, mid-terrace (4); House, end-terrace (1). Built: 1996-2002 (11); 1900-1929 (5). Tenure at assessment: owner-occupied (12); rented (social) (2); rented (private) (1).

Each home's certificates and sales (16 addresses)

Gas and electricity use

Homes with gas used 11,060 kWh of it on average in 2024, about the same as the district, and 6,307 kWh of electricity, 98% more than the district's 3,181 kWh. There are gas meters for about 26% of the homes.

1 of its postcodes has no gas meters recorded among 10 or more homes: often flats heated by electricity, or homes off the gas grid.

PostcodeElectricity metersTypical electricityGas metersTypical gas
WN1 1HW17 10 Economy 76,245 kWh 912,636 kWh
WN1 1HS184,522 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.

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 A (85% of about 1,320 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: yes, Wigan Town Centre (council page). Extensions, demolition, some windows and doors, and work on trees need consent.
  • Listed buildings on or by this street: 5.
  • 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.

Listed buildings

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 610 m (0.4 miles)
Kirkless Power Landfill Gas 2.1 MW Operational Dec 2004 2.8 km (1.7 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

  • 10 September 2026: WIGAN METROPOLITAN BOROUGH COUNCIL, Highway repair and maintenance works, some carriageway incursion, on the carriageway (minor 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, 2 addresses are in areas at high risk, 3 at medium risk and 2 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
WN1 1HWnot in 2 or 3 1 / 1 / 2 unlikely
WN1 1NDnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WN1 1BSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WN1 1HBnot in 2 or 3 0 / 2 / 0 unlikely
WN1 1HEnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WN1 1HRnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WN1 1HSnot in 2 or 3 0 / 0 / 0 unlikely
WN1 1NFnot in 2 or 3 1 / 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

4 storm overflows within 1 km (0.6 miles) of the street's postcodes spilled 156 times, for 416 hours in all, in 2025. They discharge into River Douglas, Poolstock Brook.

OverflowIntoSpillsHoursDistance
Central Park Cso 50090 United Utilities River Douglas 91 227 920 m (0.6 miles)
Gower Street Cso 50126 United Utilities River Douglas 38 118 930 m (0.6 miles)
Rear of 125 Baker Street Cso United Utilities Poolstock Brook 25 72 940 m (0.6 miles)
Ormskirk Road/France Street Cso United Utilities River Douglas 2 0 1 km (0.6 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

8 of the street's 8 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 10 to 30%: 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: 1 to 3% (2); 10 to 30% (7).

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. Homes built here in recent decades should have radon protection under the building regulations (basic protection from 3%, full protection from 10%). 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 36 addresses are between 33 m and 40 m above sea level (35 m on average); the ground rises about 7 m from the lowest to the highest.

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 1BS100%91%91%0%
WN1 1HB100%100%100%0%
WN1 1HE100%100%100%0%
WN1 1HR100%100%100%0%
WN1 1HS100%0%0%0%
WN1 1HW100%61%61%0%
WN1 1ND100%67%67%0%
WN1 1NF100%0%0%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 2024–25270 m
Wigan North Western 1.4 million journeys in 2024–25360 m
Ince (Manchester) 13,000 journeys in 2024–251.8 km (1.1 miles)
Bus stops12 stops within 400 m (0.2 miles), 40 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Deanery High School Wigan150 m
Bus or coach stationWigan Bus Station170 m
Car parks4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Apcoa180 m
EV charging points6 within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Be.EV Charging Station120 m
Airport with scheduled flightsLiverpool John Lennon Airport LPL27.5 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 Surgery560 m (0.3 miles)
Pharmacies10 pharmacies within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Hollowood Chemist420 m (0.3 miles)
NHS dentists7 practices within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest Dental Surgery250 m
HospitalWrightington Hospital Orthopaedic Centre Elective Surgical Hub Good Feb 20206.9 km (4.3 miles)
Care homes5 homes within 1.6 km (1 mile); nearest St George's (Wigan) Limited Good Dec 2021930 m (0.6 miles)
Police stationWigan Police Station1.3 km (0.8 miles)
Cash machines5 machines within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Cashpoint® 2-6 Market Street Lloyds Bank270 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 garden4 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 3,400 m²160 m
Largest park within 800 m (0.5 miles)Mesnes Park 11 ha510 m (0.3 miles)
Play area3 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 530 m²430 m (0.3 miles)
Playing field2 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 2.4 ha440 m (0.3 miles)
Allotments1 within 800 m (0.5 miles); nearest Unnamed 1,180 m²780 m (0.5 miles)

Within 800 m (0.5 miles): 4 parks and gardens, 12 hectares in all.

Landmarks

The nearest historic landmark is Church of All Saints, a listed building (Grade II*), 260 m east. 94 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 All SaintsListed building, Grade II*260 m east
War Memorial South of Church of All Saints With Encircling RailingsListed building, Grade II*270 m east
Church of St JohnListed building, Grade II*660 m (0.4 miles) north-east
Mesnes ParkRegistered park or garden, Grade II700 m (0.4 miles) north
Church of St MaryListed building, Grade II*740 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Mabs Cross on Standishgate, 20m west of Mabs Cross School buildingScheduled monument830 m (0.5 miles) north-east
Haigh Sough mine drainage portal, 310m west of Park HouseScheduled monument1.9 km (1.2 miles) north-east
Natural landmarks within 5 km (3.1 miles)
NameWhat it isFrom the middle of the street
Whalley's BasinLake or reservoir1.5 km (0.9 miles) east
Bottling WoodWood1.7 km (1.1 miles) north-east
Whitley ReservoirLake or reservoir1.7 km (1.1 miles) north
Pearson's FlashLake or reservoir1.9 km (1.2 miles) south
Captain's CloughValley4 km (2.5 miles) west
Camp HillHill4.9 km (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)11.74010
Fine particles (PM2.5)6.7205
Particles (PM10)11.14015

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 6406
55 to 59168
Under 552022

16 of the street's 36 addresses are modelled at 55 dB or more from road traffic, and 14 from railways, 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), 6 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
Wigan and Leigh College16 plus16–99120 m No published inspection A level 2025: average grade C; 7.7% AAB or better; progress average
The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form CollegeSecondary11–18170 m 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 Mary and St John Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary4–11770 m (0.5 miles) 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)
Mab's Cross Primary SchoolPrimary4–11840 m (0.5 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)
Douglas Valley Nursery SchoolNursery2–5900 m (0.6 miles) No published inspection
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.1 km (0.7 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)
Wigan St Andrew's CofE Junior and Infant School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.2 km (0.8 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 Catharine's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary4–111.3 km (0.8 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)
Britannia Bridge Primary SchoolPrimary3–111.5 km (0.9 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)
St Mark's CofE Primary School Church of EnglandPrimary2–111.5 km (0.9 miles) Good (Sep 2023, overall grade under the previous framework) 44% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 4% at the higher standard (2025; 30% in 2024 and 60% in 2023)
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School Roman CatholicPrimary3–111.6 km (1 mile) No published inspection 64% at the expected standard in reading, writing and maths, 6% at the higher standard (2025; 42% in 2024 and 73% in 2023)
St John Fisher Catholic High School Roman CatholicSecondary11–161.6 km (1 mile) Report card (Mar 2026): Curriculum and teaching: Needs attention; Achievement: Needs attention; Attendance and behaviour: Expected standard; Personal development and wellbeing: Strong standard; Inclusion: Expected standard; Leadership and governance: Expected standard; Safeguarding standards: Met GCSE 2026 (provisional): Attainment 8 45.5 (41.3 in 2025 and 42.2 in 2024); 34% grade 5+ in English and maths

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 1.3 km (0.8 miles); the nearest is 500 m (0.3 miles) from the middle of the street.

ProviderKindPlacesLatest inspectionDistance
Parsons Walk Nursery WN1 1RU Full day care 44 Good (Feb 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 500 m (0.3 miles)
Heron Day Nursery WN1 1XH Full day care 148 Good (May 2022, overall grade under the previous framework) 580 m (0.4 miles)
Little Acorns Day Nursery WN1 2AA Full day care 100 Outstanding (May 2024, overall grade under the previous framework) 660 m (0.4 miles)
The Wendy House Nursery WN3 5AB Full day care 58 Good (Jul 2021, overall grade under the previous framework) 680 m (0.4 miles)
Busy Bees Day Nursery at Wigan Scholes WN1 3QS Full day care 94 Good (Jan 2025, overall grade under the previous framework) 900 m (0.6 miles)
Kip McGrath Wigan North WN5 0UX Full day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1 km (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) 1.1 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 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Confidence club ltd WN6 7AU Out-of-school day care (over fives) Not inspected yet 1.1 km (0.7 miles)
Mighty Oaks @ New Lodge WN1 2ND Out-of-school day care 30 Dec 2025: Strong standard in 1 area, Expected standard in 3 1.3 km (0.8 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 6 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
Uncle Joe's WN1 1HERetailers - other20 m5 Very good7 Aug 2024
The Anvil WN1 1NDPub/bar/nightclub90 m3 Generally satisfactory17 Dec 2025
Mr Wang's Restaurant WN1 1HGRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen150 m5 Very good28 Oct 2024
Burger Prime WN1 1HGTakeaway/sandwich shop150 m5 Very good13 Feb 2025
Old Pear Tree Inn WN1 1HGPub/bar/nightclub150 m3 Generally satisfactory19 Aug 2025
The Old Courts WN1 1NAPub/bar/nightclub160 m5 Very good17 Feb 2026
Midshire Catering Services Deanery Church of England High WN1 1HQSchool/college/university180 m5 Very good15 Jan 2026
Little Buddies Play Centre WN3 4DPRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen180 m5 Very good28 Oct 2024
Nutra Preps Limited WN3 4DPTakeaway/sandwich shop180 m5 Very good20 Sep 2024
Holy Grounds WN1 1NLRetailers - other180 m3 Generally satisfactory29 Sep 2026
Groke WN1 1LRTakeaway/sandwich shop200 m4 Good25 Mar 2026
Tap n Barrell WN1 1LRPub/bar/nightclub210 m5 Very good18 May 2023
Simply Thai Wigan WN1 1LRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m5 Very good19 Feb 2026
Pizza UK WN1 1LRTakeaway/sandwich shop210 m3 Generally satisfactory25 Mar 2026
Little Dessert Shop Wigan WN1 1LRRestaurant/Cafe/Canteen210 m4 Good30 Sep 2026

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, 4 serious and 3 slight, in which 4 people were seriously hurt. 6 involved a pedestrian. 43% happened in the dark, and 14% on a wet or icy road. Most were on roads with a 30 mph limit.

By year
YearCollisionsFatal or serious
202100
202200
202332
202411
202531
The most recent
DateSeverityWho was hurtRoadConditions
4 Oct 2025 23:59 Slight 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on
24 Apr 2025 16:45 Slight 1 person Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
7 Apr 2025 13:20 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
8 Nov 2024 11:50 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Daylight
11 Aug 2023 22:51 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 20 mph Dark, street lights on
8 May 2023 17:20 Serious 1 person: 1 pedestrian Minor road, 30 mph Dark, street lights on, wet road
3 May 2023 17:30 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

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, 340 m from the street's postcodes.

RoadBetweenVehicles a dayLorriesTen years beforeDistance
A49 A49 Caroline St to A49 Chapel Lane 9,550 estimated; counted 2019 2% -6% since 2015 280 m
A49 A577 mid-intersection to A573 19,625 estimated; counted 2020 2% -3% since 2015 310 m
A49 B5238/A49 Chapel Lane to A49 Wallgate 13,916 estimated; counted 2024 1% +18% since 2015 330 m
A49 A49 Queen St to A577 mid-intersection 41,898 counted 2025 2% +28% since 2015 340 m
A49 A49 Pottery Rd to A49 Caroline St 25,509 counted 2025 2% +22% since 2015 350 m
A577 A49 to A573 16,384 estimated; counted 2018 2% 390 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: 343 residents in 212 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 age3140
Children under 159%17%
Aged 65 and over8%18%

Homes

Around this streetEngland
Owned (outright or with a mortgage)8%61%
Owned outright5%33%
Shared ownershipunder 1%1%
Social rented36%17%
Private rented56%21%

Work and commuting

Around this streetEngland
Adults (16 and over) in work53%57%
Unemployment (of those working or looking for work)10%6%
Retired (of adults)8%22%
Long-term sick or disabled (of adults)8%4%
Work mainly from home (of those in work)19%32%
Travel to work by car or van32%48%
By train, Underground, metro or tram6%4%
By any public transport, including bus18%8%
On foot or by bicycle27%10%
Work within 10 km (6 miles) of home (of those who travel to work)73%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)28%34%
No qualifications21%18%
Apprenticeship as highest qualification5%5%
Main language English (aged 3 and over)84%91%
Cannot speak English well or at all5%2%

Deprivation

The neighbourhood around this street is in decile 1 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
  • 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.