Atherton Road, Wigan house prices are built from 894 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 1 May 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £70,000. Across the 10 years from 2016 to 2026 the median moved +77.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +27.2%.
Median price paid
£70,000
Change in cash, 2016–2026
+77.6%
Change in real terms
+27.2%
Median per m²
£1,429
HM Land Registry894 sales1 with floor areaLatest sale 1 May 2026
Section 01
How Atherton Road, Wigan prices moved
The chart tracks the median Atherton Road, 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.
| Decade | Years with sales | Median paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | 5 | £30,000 | £66,614 |
| 2000s | 10 | £62,750 | £114,312 |
| 2010s | 10 | £79,375 | £111,919 |
| 2020s | 7 | £131,250 | £134,103 |
The highest yearly median on record for Atherton Road, Wigan is £147,000 in 2026; the lowest is £20,000 in 1999. Across the full 32-year record the cash median has moved from £31,750 to £147,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £70,500, so the real change over the whole record is +108.5% — about +2.40% 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: +77.6% in cash against +27.2% 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.
Section 02
The most recent sales
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.
| Address | Sold | Type | Price paid | In today's money |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 490 | 1 May 2026 | Terraced | £140,000 | £140,000 |
| 748 | 23 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £117,000 | £117,000 |
| 254 | 9 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £182,000 | £182,000 |
| 79 | 6 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £147,000 | £147,000 |
| 866 | 13 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £155,000 | £155,000 |
| 45 | 2 Feb 2026 | Terraced | £110,000 | £110,000 |
| 73 | 15 Jan 2026 | Semi-detached | £170,000 | £170,000 |
| 542 | 18 Dec 2025 | Semi-detached | £105,000 | £107,283 |
| 107 | 16 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £95,000 | £97,065 |
| 49 | 12 Dec 2025 | Terraced | £120,000 | £122,609 |
| 911 | 26 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £126,000 | £128,739 |
| 115 | 21 Nov 2025 | Terraced | £99,950 | £102,123 |
| 989 | 26 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 700 | 12 Sep 2025 | Semi-detached | £268,000 | £273,826 |
| 983 | 11 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £147,000 | £150,196 |
| 183 | 5 Sep 2025 | Terraced | £137,500 | £140,489 |
| 315 | 29 Aug 2025 | Semi-detached | £282,000 | £288,130 |
| 804 | 26 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £100,000 | £102,174 |
| 783 | 30 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £82,500 | £84,293 |
| 238 | 29 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £159,000 | £162,457 |
| 957 | 28 Jul 2025 | Terraced | £164,000 | £167,565 |
| 809 | 28 Jul 2025 | Semi-detached | £140,000 | £143,043 |
| 529 | 27 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £194,130 |
| 318 | 20 Jun 2025 | Semi-detached | £285,000 | £291,196 |
| 229 | 13 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £143,000 | £146,109 |
Section 03
Homes that sold twice
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 Atherton Road, Wigan values — no mix of property types can flatter the number.
| Address | First recorded sale | Most recent sale | Cash a year | Real a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 490 Atherton Road | £101,500 (2021) | £140,000 (2026) | +6.6% | +1.8% |
| 748 Atherton Road | £80,000 (2006) | £117,000 (2026) | +1.9% | -1.0% |
| 866 Atherton Road | £65,000 (2013) | £155,000 (2026) | +6.9% | +3.9% |
| 45 Atherton Road | £48,995 (2001) | £110,000 (2026) | +3.3% | +0.5% |
| 107 Atherton Road | £25,500 (1995) | £95,000 (2025) | +4.5% | +1.8% |
| 49 Atherton Road | £30,000 (2004) | £120,000 (2025) | +6.8% | +3.8% |
| 911 Atherton Road | £14,000 (1998) | £126,000 (2025) | +8.5% | +5.7% |
| 115 Atherton Road | £29,000 (1998) | £99,950 (2025) | +4.7% | +2.0% |
| 989 Atherton Road | £80,000 (2008) | £140,000 (2025) | +3.3% | +0.4% |
| 700 Atherton Road | £59,950 (2000) | £268,000 (2025) | +6.2% | +3.4% |
| 983 Atherton Road | £12,000 (1995) | £147,000 (2025) | +8.7% | +5.9% |
| 183 Atherton Road | £33,500 (2001) | £137,500 (2025) | +6.1% | +3.2% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Atherton Road, Wigan is dominated by the type at the top of this table, so its overall median leans that way.
| Property type | Sales | Share | Median paid | Range |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terraced | 664 | 74.3% | £62,750 | £6,000 – £940,000 |
| Semi-detached | 193 | 21.6% | £100,000 | £7,500 – £390,000 |
| Detached | 34 | 3.8% | £217,500 | £25,000 – £498,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 3 | 0.3% | £19,800 | £17,000 – £26,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Atherton Road, Wigan
650 of the sales on record are leasehold and 244 freehold — 72.7% 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 £69,175 and the median freehold sale £71,000 — a gap of +2.6%. Most of that gap is property type rather than tenure itself: leasehold here is largely flats, freehold largely houses.
| Category | Sales | Share | Median paid |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leasehold | 650 | 72.7% | £69,175 |
| Freehold | 244 | 27.3% | £71,000 |
| New build | 15 | 1.7% | £56,950 |
| Existing home | 879 | 98.3% | £70,000 |
New builds sold for less than the median existing home — -18.6%. 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 109 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.
Section 07
Living in Atherton Road, Wigan
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.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 417 | 0.3% |
| B | 10,442 | 7.7% |
| C | 48,231 | 35.5% |
| D | 54,163 | 39.9% |
| E | 17,667 | 13.0% |
| F | 3,716 | 2.7% |
| G | 1,054 | 0.8% |
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 £70,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 15.12% 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.
Section 08
The neighbourhood around Atherton Road, Wigan
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.
| School | Phase | Type | Pupils |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outwood Academy Hindley | Secondary | Academy sponsor led | 908 |
| Platt Bridge Community School | Primary | Academy converter | 479 |
| Hindley Green Community Primary School | Primary | Academy converter | 420 |
| Ince CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 383 |
| Canon Sharples Church of England Primary School and Nursery | Primary | Academy sponsor led | 326 |
| St Peter's Church of England Primary School, Hindley | Primary | Academy converter | 281 |
| St John's Church of England Primary School, Abram | Primary | Academy converter | 274 |
| St Mary's CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 242 |
| Hindley All Saints CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 237 |
| St William's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 235 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Hindley Rail Station | Rail | 0.8 km |
| Ince (Manchester) Rail Station | Rail | 1.9 km |
| Wigan North Western Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
| Wigan Wallgate Rail Station | Rail | 3.5 km |
Section 09
How Atherton Road, Wigan compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Atherton Road, Wigan sits below that national figure — -55.6%.
Within Wigan the street ranks 2223 of 2660 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £107,000 (-34.6%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,429 per square metre, across 1 of the 894 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 £6,000 to £940,000. 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.
Atherton Road, 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.
Section 10
Nearby on the record
Streets nearby
- Warrington Road£62,975 median
- Liverpool Road£61,000 median
- Leigh Road£69,500 median
- Bickershaw Lane£69,500 median
- Castle Hill Road£78,500 median
- Sandy Lane£109,000 median
- Blackberry Drive£139,000 median
- Victoria Road£89,000 median
- Platt Lane£75,475 median
- Lily Lane£60,350 median
- Dartington Road£130,500 median
- Lincoln Drive£113,000 median
- Thomas Street£107,000 median
- Lord Street£63,250 median
- Swan Lane£74,000 median
- Hall Lane£262,500 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 83 Atherton Road7 sales
- 951 Atherton Road6 sales
- 860 Atherton Road6 sales
- 973 Atherton Road6 sales
- 697 Atherton Road6 sales
- 115 Atherton Road5 sales
- 983 Atherton Road5 sales
- 961 Atherton Road5 sales
- 387 Atherton Road5 sales
- 245 Atherton Road5 sales
- 290 Atherton Road5 sales
- 280 Atherton Road5 sales
- 853 Atherton Road5 sales
- 619 Atherton Road5 sales
- 252 Atherton Road5 sales
- 2 Atherton Road5 sales
- 745 Atherton Road5 sales
- 106 Atherton Road5 sales
- 45 Atherton Road4 sales
- 107 Atherton Road4 sales
- 911 Atherton Road4 sales
- 315 Atherton Road4 sales
- 804 Atherton Road4 sales
- 229 Atherton Road4 sales
Back to Wigan house prices.
Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Atherton Road, Wigan?
The median price paid in Atherton Road, Wigan across every sale on the register is £70,000. 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 Atherton Road, Wigan?
894 sales are on record for Atherton Road, Wigan, the most recent completing on 1 May 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Atherton Road, Wigan house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +77.6% between 2016 and 2026. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +27.2%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Atherton Road, Wigan house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £147,000, set in 2026. 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 Atherton Road, Wigan?
£1,429 per square metre, from the 1 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 1 May 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, “Atherton Road, 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.