Property market
The five-year median is £97,000 from 2 recorded sales in M46 0DH. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Wigan is £195,557 in June 2026, up 6.6% year on year.
M46 0DH
Atherton North · Wigan · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Manchester
- Ward
- Atherton North
- Local authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Leigh and Atherton
- Postcode district
- M46
- Postcode sector
- M46 0
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- M46 0DH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 May 1994
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- M
- Postcode district
- M46
- Postcode sector
- M46 0
- Latitude
- 53.523954
- Longitude
- -2.496772
- British National Grid easting
- 367,163
- British National Grid northing
- 403,145
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wigan · E08000010
- Electoral ward
- Atherton North · E05014993
- Parish or community
- E43000164
- Westminster constituency
- Leigh and Atherton · E14001329
- Output area
- E00031625
- Lower layer super output area
- Wigan 023C · E01006244
- Middle layer super output area
- Wigan 023 · E02001309
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore M46
Property
11 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 6, Bag Lane, Atherton, Manchester, M46 0DH | 13 February 2025 | £120,000 |
| 14, Bag Lane, Atherton, Manchester, M46 0DH | 20 May 2024 | £74,000 |
| 16, Bag Lane, Atherton, Manchester, M46 0DH | 25 July 2012 | £50,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 70
- Primary
- 52
- Secondary
- 9
- 397 m
Atherton High School
Free schools
- 517 m
Atherton St George's CofE Primary School
Academy converter
- 625 m
St Richard's Roman Catholic Primary School Atherton
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 8
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- M46 0 residents
- 11,653
10 female, 7 male
Age bands in M46 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.8%
2,041 residents
1,214 residents
3,386 residents
2,845 residents
1,917 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider M46 0 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
24
within 5 km
BEE FOLD MEDICAL CENTRE
25 BEE FOLD LANE, ATHERTON, MANCHESTER, M46 0BD
ODS code P92633
347 m
DR VASANTH
ATHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, NELSON STREET, ATHERTON, MANCHESTER, M46 0LE
ODS code P92635
477 m
MEADOWVIEW SURGERY
ORMEROD HOUSE, ATHERTON HEALTH CENTRE, NELSON ST, ATHERTON, MANCHESTER, M46 0LE
ODS code P92626
477 m
DR KK CHAN & PARTNERS
SEVEN BROOKS MEDICAL CENTRE, 21 CHURCH STREET, ATHERTON, MANCHESTER, M46 9DE
ODS code P92042
515 m
POPLAR STREET SURGERY
TYLDESLEY HEALTH CENTRE, POPLAR STREET, TYLDESLEY, MANCHESTER, M29 8AX
ODS code Y02321
2.0 km
THE SURGERY, TYLDESLEY
THE SURGERY, HIGH STREET, TYLDESLEY, MANCHESTER, M29 8AL
ODS code P92033
2.1 km
ELLIOTT STREET SURGERY
145 ELLIOTT STREET, TYLDESLEY, MANCHESTER, M29 8FL
ODS code P92028
2.1 km
WESTLEIGH MEDICAL PRACTICE
4-12 WESTLEIGH LANE, LEIGH, WN7 5JE
ODS code P92029
2.4 km
GRASMERE SURGERY
LEIGH HEALTH CENTRE, THE AVENUE, LEIGH, WN7 1HR
ODS code P92607
2.5 km
THE AVENUE SURGERY
LEIGH HEALTH CENTRE, THE AVENUE, LEIGH, WN7 1HR
ODS code P92615
2.5 km
UNSWORTH GROUP PRACTICE
PETER HOUSE, CAPTAIN LEES ROAD, WESTHOUGHTON, BOLTON, BL5 3UB
ODS code P82015
3.1 km
BROOKMILL MEDICAL CENTRE
COLLEGE STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2RB
ODS code P92023
3.2 km
FOXLEIGH FAMILY SURGERY
HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code P92602
3.5 km
LEIGH FAMILY PRACTICE
BRIDGEWATER MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code Y02322
3.5 km
LILFORD & PENNINGTON PARK SURGERY
THE BRIDGEWATER MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code Y00050
3.5 km
OLD HENRY STREET MED CTR
OLD HENRY STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PG
ODS code P92007
3.5 km
PREMIER HEALTH TEAM
BRIDGEWATER MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code P92621
3.5 km
STABLE FOLD SURGERY
119 CHURCH STREET, WESTHOUGHTON, BOLTON, BL5 3SF
ODS code P82005
3.6 km
ASTLEY GENERAL PRACTICE
391A MANCHESTER ROAD, ASTLEY, TYLDESLEY, MANCHESTER, M29 7BY
ODS code P92637
3.7 km
SIVAKUMAR & PARTNER
THE SURGERY, 1 COLDALHURST LANE, ASTLEY, TYLDESLEY, MANCHESTER, M29 7BS
ODS code P92020
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 24 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Market Street
BCT · Atherton
- 0.0 miles
Bag Lane
BCT · Atherton
- 0.0 miles
Sumner Street
BCT · Atherton
- 0.1 miles
Sumner Street
BCT · Atherton
- 0.1 miles
Lambeth Street
BCT · Atherton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wigan 023C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,122 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
70 open schools are in scope, including 52 primary and 9 secondary schools. Atherton High School is the nearest published school at 397 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.