Property market
The five-year median is £377,500 from 2 recorded sales in WA3 1AF. 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.
WA3 1AF
Lowton East · Wigan · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Warrington
- Ward
- Lowton East
- Local authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Leigh and Atherton
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA3 1AF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 1
- Latitude
- 53.472675
- Longitude
- -2.553573
- British National Grid easting
- 363,353
- British National Grid northing
- 397,468
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wigan · E08000010
- Electoral ward
- Lowton East · E05015004
- Parish or community
- E43000164
- Westminster constituency
- Leigh and Atherton · E14001329
- Output area
- E00031948
- Lower layer super output area
- Wigan 040C · E01006304
- Middle layer super output area
- Wigan 040 · E02001326
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 WA3
Property
26 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 13, Carr Lane, Lowton, Warrington, WA3 1AF | 6 November 2025 | £149,000 |
| 33, Carr Lane, Lowton, Warrington, WA3 1AF | 19 September 2025 | £606,000 |
| 13, Carr Lane, Lowton, Warrington, WA3 1AF | 15 May 2020 | £121,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 40
- Primary
- 31
- Secondary
- 6
- 332 m
Lowton Junior and Infant School
Foundation school
- 388 m
Lowton St Mary's CofE (Voluntary Aided) Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 597 m
Lowton Church of England High School
Foundation school
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 38
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- WA3 1 residents
- 3,805
21 female, 17 male
Age bands in WA3 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.5%
645 residents
408 residents
1,059 residents
1,083 residents
774 residents
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA3 1 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
17
within 5 km
LOWTON & PLATT BRIDGE SURGERY
208C NEWTON ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2AQ
ODS code P92651
513 m
BRAITHWAITE RD SURGERY
36 BRAITHWAITE ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2HY
ODS code P92002
1.5 km
SLAG LANE MC
216 SLAG LANE, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2EZ
ODS code P92648
1.6 km
LEIGH SPORTS VILLAGE
LEIGH STADIUM, SALE WAY, LEIGH, WN7 4JY
ODS code Y02886
2.4 km
FAMILY MEDICAL PRACTICE
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92639
2.9 km
GOLBORNE SURGERY
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92630
2.9 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KIDGLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92012
2.9 km
CULCHETH MEDICAL CENTRE
JACKSON AVENUE, CULCHETH, WARRINGTON, WA3 4DZ
ODS code N81059
3.0 km
FOXLEIGH FAMILY SURGERY
HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code P92602
3.6 km
LEIGH FAMILY PRACTICE
BRIDGEWATER MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code Y02322
3.6 km
LILFORD & PENNINGTON PARK SURGERY
THE BRIDGEWATER MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code Y00050
3.6 km
OLD HENRY STREET MED CTR
OLD HENRY STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PG
ODS code P92007
3.6 km
PREMIER HEALTH TEAM
BRIDGEWATER MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code P92621
3.6 km
BROOKMILL MEDICAL CENTRE
COLLEGE STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2RB
ODS code P92023
3.9 km
GRASMERE SURGERY
LEIGH HEALTH CENTRE, THE AVENUE, LEIGH, WN7 1HR
ODS code P92607
4.4 km
THE AVENUE SURGERY
LEIGH HEALTH CENTRE, THE AVENUE, LEIGH, WN7 1HR
ODS code P92615
4.4 km
WESTLEIGH MEDICAL PRACTICE
4-12 WESTLEIGH LANE, LEIGH, WN7 5JE
ODS code P92029
4.6 km
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Pocket Nook Lane
BCT · Lowton Common
- 0.1 miles
Pocket Nook Lane
BCT · Lowton Common
- 0.2 miles
Hesketh Meadow Lane
BCT · Lowton Common
- 0.2 miles
Morgans Way
BCT · Lowton Common
- 0.2 miles
Sandy Lane
BCT · Lowton Common
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wigan 040C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,781 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
40 open schools are in scope, including 31 primary and 6 secondary schools. Lowton Junior and Infant School is the nearest published school at 332 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.