Property market
The five-year median is £5,170,000 from 1 recorded sale in WA3 3GY. 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 3GY
Golborne & Lowton West · Wigan · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Warrington
- Local authority
- Wigan
- Constituency
- Leigh and Atherton
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WA3 3GY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1998
- Terminated
- 1 December 2018
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 3
- Latitude
- 53.471060
- Longitude
- -2.587011
- British National Grid easting
- 361,132
- British National Grid northing
- 397,306
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wigan · E08000010
- Electoral ward
- Golborne & Lowton West · E05014997
- Parish or community
- E43000164
- Westminster constituency
- Leigh and Atherton · E14001329
- Output area
- E00032166
- Lower layer super output area
- Wigan 039E · E01006348
- Middle layer super output area
- Wigan 039 · E02001325
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
2 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Unit 12, Yew Tree Way, Golborne, Warrington, WA3 3GY | 21 March 2023 | £5,170,000 |
| Unit 12, Yew Tree Way, Golborne, Warrington, WA3 3GY | 25 July 2017 | £4,226,763 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 42
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 6
- 698 m
All Saints Catholic Primary School, Golborne, Wigan
Voluntary aided school
- 707 m
Lowton West Primary School
Community school
- 889 m
St Luke's CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WA3 3 residents
- 10,341
Age bands in WA3 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.4%
1,856 residents
1,113 residents
2,820 residents
2,715 residents
1,923 residents
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
15
within 5 km straight-line
BRAITHWAITE RD SURGERY
36 BRAITHWAITE ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2HY
ODS code P92002
1.1 km
SLAG LANE MC
216 SLAG LANE, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2EZ
ODS code P92648
1.1 km
FAMILY MEDICAL PRACTICE
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92639
1.1 km
GOLBORNE SURGERY
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92630
1.1 km
HIGH STREET SURGERY
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KIDGLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92012
1.1 km
LOWTON & PLATT BRIDGE SURGERY
208C NEWTON ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2AQ
ODS code P92651
1.7 km
NEWTON PRACTICE
1 BELVEDERE ROAD, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 0JJ
ODS code N83045
3.7 km
BRYN STREET SURGERY
ASHTON HEALTH CENTRE, COUNCIL AVENUE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9AZ
ODS code Y02378
3.9 km
MEDICENTRE
COUNCIL AVENUE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9AZ
ODS code P92001
3.9 km
VISTA ROAD SURGERY
VISTA LOCALITY CENTRE, VISTA ROAD, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 9ED
ODS code N83005
4.2 km
LEIGH SPORTS VILLAGE
LEIGH STADIUM, SALE WAY, LEIGH, WN7 4JY
ODS code Y02886
4.2 km
PATTERDALE LODGE MED CTRE
PATTERDALE LODGE MEDICAL CENTRE, LEGH STREET, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 9NA
ODS code N83002
4.3 km
ASHTON MEDICAL CENTRE
120 WIGAN ROAD, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9SU
ODS code P92041
4.6 km
CULCHETH MEDICAL CENTRE
JACKSON AVENUE, CULCHETH, WARRINGTON, WA3 4DZ
ODS code N81059
4.6 km
MODALITY ST HELENS
WOODSIDE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, WOODSIDE ROAD, HAYDOCK, ST. HELENS, WA11 0NA
ODS code N83020
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Derby Road
BCT · Golborne
- 0.2 miles
Derby Road
BCT · Golborne
- 0.2 miles
Manor Avenue
BCT · Golborne
- 0.3 miles
Manor Avenue
BCT · Golborne
- 0.3 miles
Barrowdale Road
BCT · Golborne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wigan 039E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,874 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Schools
42 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 6 secondary schools. All Saints Catholic Primary School, Golborne, Wigan is the nearest published school at 698 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 1 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.