Wigan house prices

Wigan house prices are built from 99,836 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 24 Jun 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £107,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +50.8% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +8.0%.

HM Land Registry99,836 sales7,875 with floor areaLatest sale 24 Jun 2026

The chart tracks the median Wigan house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2026. The dashed line restates each year in 2026 money, so the two lines separate exactly as much as inflation has eroded the cash figure.

The highest yearly median on record for Wigan is £195,000 in 2025; the lowest is £43,000 in 1995. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £43,000 to £193,000.

In 2026 money that first median is worth £95,480, so the real change over the whole record is +102.1% — about +2.30% a year after inflation. Cash growth and real growth are not the same story, and the gap is the part most price reports leave out.

Over the last decade alone the difference is stark: +50.8% in cash against +8.0% once inflation is removed. A buyer who sold at the end of that decade would have needed the real figure, not the headline one, to know whether they had actually gained.

Every row is a completed sale as lodged with HM Land Registry. The right-hand column restates the price in 2026 money, which is the only fair way to compare a sale from the 1990s with one from last year.

These addresses appear in the register more than once, so the same bricks are being priced twice. That makes them the strongest evidence of what actually happened to Wigan values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.

The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Wigan is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.

Energy Performance Certificates record a floor area for every home that has been surveyed, sold or let — far more homes than have changed hands. 22,688 certificates cover Wigan, and their median floor area is 77 m².

The median across the whole register is 76 m², so homes here are about the same size than average — +1.3%. Size explains a large part of why one area's median price sits above another's, which is why the price per square metre further up this page is the fairer comparison.

55,338 of the sales on record are leasehold and 44,498 freehold — 55.4% of the market. Tenure is not a detail: a leasehold flat and a freehold house are different assets, and mixing them into one median hides the difference.

The median leasehold sale is £99,000 and the median freehold sale £117,000 — a gap of +18.2%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.

New builds sold for more than the median existing home — +24.8%. A new-build premium is normal: the buyer gets a warranty and nothing to fix, and the price is set by a developer rather than negotiated between two households.

A further 7,107 transfers for this area are on the register but are left out of every figure above. HM Land Registry marks them as additional price paid entries: repossessions, buy-to-let portfolio moves, transfers between companies or family, and sales at a discount such as right to buy. They are real records but they are not open-market prices, and including them would drag the median somewhere no buyer ever paid.

Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across Bolton, 43.5% of 135,690 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 3.5% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.

The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in Bolton at £882 a month as of Jun 2026 — £645 for a one-bedroom home and £974 for three bedrooms.

Against the median sale of £107,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 9.89% a year. It is a measured figure rather than an assumption: a real local rent over a real local price, before any cost of ownership.

Police forces publish every recorded street-level crime. Within a mile of the centre of WN2, 2 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 1 violent, 0 burglary, 0 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 83.5 times quieter.

Against the 295,963 residents the 2021 census counted in Bolton, that is 0.01 recorded crimes per thousand people in the month. The count covers a mile around the district centre while the population covers the whole council, so read the rate as an order of magnitude rather than a precise figure.

A count is not a rate. A district with shops and a station records more crime than a residential one of the same size, because more people pass through it. Read this next to the median, not on its own.

The 2021 census counted 295,963 residents in Bolton across 118,790 households. 61.9% of those households own their home and 37.8% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.

22 state and independent schools have a WN2 postcode: 20 primary, 1 secondary, 1 nursery. Catchment areas do not follow postcodes, so treat this as what is nearby rather than what a child would be offered.

The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Wigan sits below that national figure — -32.1%.

Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,217 per square metre, across 7,875 of the 99,836 sales on record. Price per square metre is the only figure that compares a two-bed flat with a four-bed house honestly.

The full range on record runs from £1.00 to £2,750,000. Extremes usually mean something unusual — a plot sold without a house on it, a transfer between family members, or a very large property — so the median is the number to trust.

Wigan sits in Bolton, in the North West.

The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in Bolton at 6.2 times median local earnings of £33,008 a year, measured to Sep 2025. Across England and Wales the same ratio is 7.6. That number, not the price alone, is what decides whether a place is within reach of the people who work in it.

Streets in Wigan

• Warrington Road1,320 sales
• Wigan Road1,267 sales
• Atherton Road894 sales
• Ormskirk Road723 sales
• Bolton Road666 sales
• Billinge Road496 sales
• Gidlow Lane454 sales
• Preston Road452 sales
• Hodges Street378 sales
• Poolstock Lane377 sales
• Downall Green Road376 sales
• Park Road372 sales
• Barnsley Street370 sales
• Heritage Way366 sales
• Orrell Road349 sales
• Liverpool Road330 sales
• Old Road329 sales
• Leigh Road314 sales
• Chorley Road296 sales
• Church Street292 sales
• Bickershaw Lane283 sales
• Gathurst Road267 sales
• Scot Lane267 sales
• City Road265 sales
• Woodhouse Lane263 sales
• Upholland Road262 sales
• Castle Hill Road254 sales
• Hartley Green Gardens243 sales
• Sandy Lane243 sales
• Blackberry Drive232 sales
• Victoria Road230 sales
• Wigan Lower Road230 sales
• Platt Lane228 sales
• Wotton Drive227 sales
• Lily Lane219 sales
• Sherwood Drive218 sales
• Trevore Drive218 sales
• Wigan Lane215 sales
• Enfield Street207 sales
• Ince Green Lane203 sales
• Springfield Road199 sales
• Dartington Road197 sales
• Windsor Road197 sales
• Garswood Road194 sales
• Lincoln Drive193 sales
• Miles Lane182 sales
• Silverdale Road181 sales
• Bradley Lane180 sales
• Moor Road180 sales
• Mill Lane179 sales
• Thomas Street179 sales
• Weavermill Park179 sales
• Mossy Lea Road177 sales
• Shevington Lane177 sales
• Darlington Street East175 sales
• Tunstall Lane174 sales
• Lord Street172 sales
• St James Road171 sales
• Green Lane170 sales
• Princess Road170 sales

Postcode districts covering Wigan

• WN2£94,000 median
• WN6£125,000 median
• WN5£105,000 median
• WN3£102,000 median
• WN4£103,000 median
• WN1£103,000 median
• WN8£99,000 median

What is the average house price in Wigan?

The median price paid in Wigan across every sale on the register is £107,000. The median is used rather than the mean because a handful of very large sales would otherwise drag the average away from what a typical buyer paid.

How many homes have sold in Wigan?

99,836 sales are on record for Wigan, the most recent completing on 24 Jun 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.

Have Wigan house prices actually risen?

In cash, the median rose +50.8% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +8.0%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.

When were Wigan house prices at their highest?

The highest yearly median on record is £195,000, set in 2025. That is the cash figure; measured in 2026 money the peak may fall in a different year, because inflation reshapes the series.

What is the price per square metre in Wigan?

£1,217 per square metre, from the 7,875 sales where an EPC floor area could be matched to the address. Price per square metre strips out size, so a flat and a house can be compared on the same basis.

How current is this data?

The latest sale shown here completed on 24 Jun 2026. HM Land Registry publishes Price Paid Data monthly and a sale can take a month or two to appear after completion, so the most recent weeks are always incomplete.

Cite this page: Sold Price History, “Wigan house prices”, 2026. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data © Crown copyright and database right, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Inflation adjustment: ONS CPIH.