Property market
The five-year median is £169,950 from 7 recorded sales in WA3 3TA. 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 3TA
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 3TA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WA
- Postcode district
- WA3
- Postcode sector
- WA3 3
- Latitude
- 53.481598
- Longitude
- -2.604275
- British National Grid easting
- 359,996
- British National Grid northing
- 398,488
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
- E00031535
- Lower layer super output area
- Wigan 038A · E01006227
- Middle layer super output area
- Wigan 038 · E02001324
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
20 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 27, Edge Green Lane, Golborne, Warrington, WA3 3TA | 15 August 2025 | £150,000 |
| 49, Edge Green Lane, Golborne, Warrington, WA3 3TA | 2 August 2024 | £176,500 |
| 65, Edge Green Lane, Golborne, Warrington, WA3 3TA | 15 December 2023 | £263,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 48
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 6
- 612 m
Golborne Community Primary School
Academy converter
- 751 m
St Thomas CofE Junior and Infant School
Voluntary aided school
- 943 m
All Saints Catholic Primary School, Golborne, Wigan
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 18
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 14
- Other crime 1
- Other theft 1
- Public order 1
- Criminal damage and arson 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 101
- Postcode households
- 32
- Residents per household
- 3.2
- WA3 3 residents
- 10,341
51 female, 50 male
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
This postcode contained 1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WA3 3 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
FAMILY MEDICAL PRACTICE
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92639
613 m
GOLBORNE SURGERY
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92630
613 m
HIGH STREET SURGERY
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KIDGLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92012
613 m
SLAG LANE MC
216 SLAG LANE, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2EZ
ODS code P92648
1.9 km
BRAITHWAITE RD SURGERY
36 BRAITHWAITE ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2HY
ODS code P92002
2.0 km
BRYN STREET SURGERY
ASHTON HEALTH CENTRE, COUNCIL AVENUE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9AZ
ODS code Y02378
2.4 km
MEDICENTRE
COUNCIL AVENUE, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9AZ
ODS code P92001
2.4 km
ASHTON MEDICAL CENTRE
120 WIGAN ROAD, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 9SU
ODS code P92041
3.0 km
LOWTON & PLATT BRIDGE SURGERY
208C NEWTON ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2AQ
ODS code P92651
3.1 km
NEWTON PRACTICE
1 BELVEDERE ROAD, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 0JJ
ODS code N83045
3.5 km
BRYN CROSS SURGERY
246 WIGAN ROAD, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, BRYN, WIGAN, WN4 0AR
ODS code P92034
3.6 km
MODALITY ST HELENS
WOODSIDE HEALTHCARE CENTRE, WOODSIDE ROAD, HAYDOCK, ST. HELENS, WA11 0NA
ODS code N83020
3.8 km
VISTA ROAD SURGERY
VISTA LOCALITY CENTRE, VISTA ROAD, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 9ED
ODS code N83005
3.8 km
PATTERDALE LODGE MED CTRE
PATTERDALE LODGE MEDICAL CENTRE, LEGH STREET, NEWTON-LE-WILLOWS, WA12 9NA
ODS code N83002
4.2 km
DR AHMAD & PTNRS
PLATT BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE, RIVINGTON AVENUE, PLATT BRIDGE, WIGAN, WN2 5NG
ODS code P92006
4.6 km
PLATT HOUSE SURGERY
PLATT BRIDGE HEALTH CENTRE, RIVINGTON AVENUE, PLATT BRIDGE, WIGAN, WN2 5NG
ODS code P92031
4.6 km
LEIGH SPORTS VILLAGE
LEIGH STADIUM, SALE WAY, LEIGH, WN7 4JY
ODS code Y02886
4.9 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
- 0.0 miles
Lilac Road
BCT · Golborne
- 0.0 miles
Lilac Road
BCT · Golborne
- 0.1 miles
Prescott Avenue
BCT · Golborne
- 0.1 miles
Prescott Avenue
BCT · Golborne
- 0.2 miles
Halewood Avenue
BCT · Golborne
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wigan 038A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,571 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- 1
- 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
48 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 6 secondary schools. Golborne Community Primary School is the nearest published school at 612 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
18 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.5 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 14 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.