Old Road, Wigan house prices are built from 329 sales lodged with HM Land Registry, the oldest in 1995 and the most recent on 20 Mar 2026. The median price paid across the whole record is £80,000. Across the 10 years from 2015 to 2025 the median moved +128.6% in cash — but once inflation is taken out, the change in 2026 money is +65.6%.
Median price paid
£80,000
Change in cash, 2015–2025
+128.6%
Change in real terms
+65.6%
Median per m²
£1,852
HM Land Registry329 sales1 with floor areaLatest sale 20 Mar 2026
Section 01
How Old Road, Wigan prices moved
The chart tracks the median Old Road, Wigan house price for every year with a recorded sale, from 1995 to 2025. 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 | £32,500 | £72,165 |
| 2000s | 10 | £75,000 | £136,628 |
| 2010s | 10 | £89,000 | £125,490 |
| 2020s | 5 | £128,500 | £131,293 |
The highest yearly median on record for Old Road, Wigan is £160,000 in 2025; the lowest is £28,000 in 2000. Across the full 31-year record the cash median has moved from £29,000 to £160,000.
In 2026 money that first median is worth £64,394, so the real change over the whole record is +153.9% — about +3.15% 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: +128.6% in cash against +65.6% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 270a | 20 Mar 2026 | Terraced | £175,000 | £175,000 |
| 138 | 30 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £160,000 | £163,478 |
| 381 | 1 Oct 2025 | Terraced | £170,000 | £173,696 |
| 167 | 27 Aug 2025 | Terraced | £143,000 | £146,109 |
| 387 | 20 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £90,000 | £91,957 |
| 171 | 5 Jun 2025 | Terraced | £145,000 | £148,152 |
| 156 | 9 May 2025 | Terraced | £217,000 | £221,717 |
| 89 | 20 Mar 2025 | Semi-detached | £180,000 | £183,913 |
| 385 | 13 Mar 2025 | Terraced | £185,500 | £189,533 |
| 158 | 21 Feb 2025 | Terraced | £145,000 | £148,152 |
| 217 | 31 Jan 2025 | Semi-detached | £185,000 | £189,022 |
| 150 | 10 Jan 2025 | Terraced | £142,000 | £145,087 |
| 169 | 19 Dec 2024 | Terraced | £95,000 | £99,963 |
| 75 | 5 Nov 2024 | Terraced | £94,000 | £98,910 |
| 44 | 27 Sep 2024 | Terraced | £105,000 | £110,485 |
| 355 | 15 Aug 2024 | Terraced | £139,000 | £146,261 |
| 33 | 24 Jun 2024 | Terraced | £133,000 | £139,948 |
| 373 | 4 Apr 2024 | Terraced | £90,000 | £94,701 |
| 156 | 5 Mar 2024 | Flat or maisonette | £90,000 | £94,701 |
| 303 | 1 Feb 2024 | Semi-detached | £213,000 | £224,127 |
| 297 | 4 Jan 2024 | Semi-detached | £190,000 | £199,925 |
| 38 | 26 Oct 2023 | Terraced | £150,000 | £162,069 |
| 205 | 30 Jun 2023 | Terraced | £74,000 | £79,954 |
| 29 | 27 Mar 2023 | Terraced | £79,500 | £85,897 |
| 337 | 3 Feb 2023 | Semi-detached | £250,000 | £270,115 |
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 Old 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 270A Old Road | £39,000 (2000) | £175,000 (2026) | +5.9% | +3.2% |
| 138 Old Road | £48,500 (2003) | £160,000 (2025) | +5.6% | +2.7% |
| 167 Old Road | £86,500 (2020) | £143,000 (2025) | +10.6% | +5.5% |
| 156 Old Road | £90,000 (2024) | £217,000 (2025) | +141.1% | +134.1% |
| 385 Old Road | £173,000 (2022) | £185,500 (2025) | +2.4% | -1.8% |
| 158 Old Road | £54,000 (2002) | £145,000 (2025) | +4.4% | +1.5% |
| 217 Old Road | £80,000 (2005) | £185,000 (2025) | +4.3% | +1.3% |
| 150 Old Road | £53,000 (2003) | £142,000 (2025) | +4.6% | +1.7% |
| 169 Old Road | £19,500 (1999) | £95,000 (2024) | +6.5% | +3.8% |
| 355 Old Road | £33,500 (1998) | £139,000 (2024) | +5.6% | +2.9% |
| 33 Old Road | £60,000 (1998) | £133,000 (2024) | +3.1% | +0.5% |
| 303 Old Road | £46,250 (1995) | £213,000 (2024) | +5.4% | +2.7% |
Section 04
What sells here
The mix of property types explains a large part of any area's median. Old 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 | 281 | 85.4% | £78,500 | £11,000 – £217,000 |
| Semi-detached | 43 | 13.1% | £93,500 | £26,000 – £250,000 |
| Detached | 4 | 1.2% | £151,000 | £59,995 – £194,000 |
| Flat or maisonette | 1 | 0.3% | £90,000 | £90,000 – £90,000 |
Section 06
Ownership and new build in Old Road, Wigan
276 of the sales on record are leasehold and 53 freehold — 83.9% 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 £79,950 and the median freehold sale £82,500 — a gap of +3.2%. 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 | 276 | 83.9% | £79,950 |
| Freehold | 53 | 16.1% | £82,500 |
A further 37 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 Old Road, Wigan
Every certificate carries an energy efficiency band as well as a floor area. Across St. Helens, 45.4% of 92,985 certificates sit in bands A to C, and 2.9% in F or G — the bands that cost the most to heat and are hardest to mortgage.
| Energy band | Certificates | Share |
|---|---|---|
| A | 254 | 0.3% |
| B | 8,496 | 9.1% |
| C | 33,448 | 36.0% |
| D | 37,715 | 40.6% |
| E | 10,397 | 11.2% |
| F | 1,997 | 2.1% |
| G | 678 | 0.7% |
The Office for National Statistics puts the mean private rent in St. Helens at £798 a month as of Jun 2026 — £587 for a one-bedroom home and £890 for three bedrooms.
Against the median sale of £80,000 here, that rent is a gross yield of 11.97% 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 WN4, 3 crimes were recorded in Jun 2026: 0 violent, 0 burglary, 1 vehicle-related and 0 anti-social behaviour. The median postcode district in this archive recorded 167 in the same month, so this one is 55.7 times quieter.
Against the 183,248 residents the 2021 census counted in St. Helens, that is 0.02 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 Old Road, Wigan
The 2021 census counted 183,248 residents in St. Helens across 81,013 households. 65.0% of those households own their home and 34.9% rent — a split the sold record cannot show, because only owners appear in it.
11 state and independent schools have a WN4 postcode: 8 primary, 3 secondary. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield | Secondary | Voluntary aided school | 1,204 |
| The Byrchall High School | Secondary | Academy converter | 1,138 |
| Cansfield High School | Secondary | Community school | 974 |
| R L Hughes Primary School | Primary | Community school | 425 |
| Nicol Mere School | Primary | Community school | 418 |
| St Oswald's Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 242 |
| Garswood Primary and Nursery School | Primary | Community school | 208 |
| St Wilfrids Catholic Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 187 |
| Bryn St Peter's CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary controlled school | 186 |
| St Thomas CofE Primary School | Primary | Voluntary aided school | 174 |
| Station | Mode | Distance from the district centre |
|---|---|---|
| Bryn Rail Station | Rail | 0.7 km |
| Garswood Rail Station | Rail | 1.9 km |
| Earlestown Rail Station | Rail | 4.8 km |
| Newton-le-Willows Rail Station | Rail | 5.0 km |
Section 09
How Old Road, Wigan compares
The median across the whole archive is £157,500. Old Road, Wigan sits below that national figure — -49.2%.
Within Wigan the street ranks 2032 of 2660 by median price, and its median is below the town figure of £107,000 (-25.2%).
Where an EPC floor area could be matched to the sale, the median works out at £1,852 per square metre, across 1 of the 329 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 £11,000 to £250,000. 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.
Old Road, Wigan sits in St. Helens, in the North West.
The Office for National Statistics puts the median home in St. Helens at 5.7 times median local earnings of £33,379 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
- Bolton Road£82,000 median
- Downall Green Road£84,950 median
- Wotton Drive£93,500 median
- Windsor Road£114,000 median
- Garswood Road£115,000 median
- Weavermill Park£185,000 median
- Princess Road£84,975 median
- Heath Road£89,498 median
- Moxon Way£105,225 median
- Rectory Road£70,000 median
- Belvedere Road£113,000 median
- Allscott Way£90,000 median
- Bryn Road£80,750 median
- Hilldale£230,495 median
- Low Bank Road£84,000 median
- Dunsdale Drive£91,125 median
Addresses with more than one recorded sale
- 37 Old Road6 sales
- 270A Old Road5 sales
- 158 Old Road5 sales
- 355 Old Road5 sales
- 33 Old Road5 sales
- 38 Old Road5 sales
- 252 Old Road5 sales
- 143 Old Road5 sales
- 138 Old Road4 sales
- 217 Old Road4 sales
- 297 Old Road4 sales
- 116 Old Road4 sales
- 253 Old Road4 sales
- 70 Old Road4 sales
- 389 Old Road4 sales
- 54 Old Road4 sales
- 303 Old Road3 sales
- 29 Old Road3 sales
- 187 Old Road3 sales
- 74 Old Road3 sales
- 170 Old Road3 sales
- 367 Old Road3 sales
- 192 Old Road3 sales
- 110 Old Road3 sales
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Quick answers
Common questions about this data
What is the average house price in Old Road, Wigan?
The median price paid in Old Road, Wigan across every sale on the register is £80,000. 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 Old Road, Wigan?
329 sales are on record for Old Road, Wigan, the most recent completing on 20 Mar 2026. Every one is a completed transfer lodged with HM Land Registry, not an asking price or an estimate.
Have Old Road, Wigan house prices actually risen?
In cash, the median rose +128.6% between 2015 and 2025. In 2026 money — that is, after inflation — the change is +65.6%. Both numbers are true; only the second one tells you whether buying here preserved value.
When were Old Road, Wigan house prices at their highest?
The highest yearly median on record is £160,000, 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 Old Road, Wigan?
£1,852 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 20 Mar 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, “Old 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.