Property market
The five-year median is £185,000 from 11 recorded sales in WN5 8TP. 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.
WN5 8TP
Orrell · Wigan · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WN5 8TP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WN
- Postcode district
- WN5
- Postcode sector
- WN5 8
- Latitude
- 53.532592
- Longitude
- -2.714790
- British National Grid easting
- 352,719
- British National Grid northing
- 404,229
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wigan · E08000010
- Electoral ward
- Orrell · E05015005
- Parish or community
- E43000164
- Westminster constituency
- Makerfield · E14001350
- Output area
- E00032262
- Lower layer super output area
- Wigan 018D · E01006365
- Middle layer super output area
- Wigan 018 · E02001304
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 WN5
Property
64 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 14, Millcroft Avenue, Orrell, Wigan, WN5 8TP | 23 January 2026 | £175,000 |
| 51, Millcroft Avenue, Orrell, Wigan, WN5 8TP | 15 October 2025 | £287,500 |
| 17, Millcroft Avenue, Orrell, Wigan, WN5 8TP | 26 February 2025 | £200,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 52
- Primary
- 37
- Secondary
- 4
- 395 m
St James' Catholic Primary School Orrell
Voluntary aided school
- 397 m
Orrell Holgate Academy
Academy converter
- 490 m
Up Holland High School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 139
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 53
- Anti social behaviour 28
- Burglary 11
- Other crime 7
- Shoplifting 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 146
- Postcode households
- 61
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- WN5 8 residents
- 11,127
71 female, 75 male
Age bands in WN5 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.9%
1,785 residents
1,116 residents
2,690 residents
3,198 residents
2,465 residents
This postcode contained 1.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WN5 8 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
BRADSHAW MEDICAL CENTRE
BRADSHAW STREET, ORRELL, WIGAN, WN5 0AB
ODS code P92008
1.8 km
HALL GREEN SURGERY
164 ORMSKIRK ROAD, UPHOLLAND, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 0AB
ODS code P81084
2.0 km
EXCEL PRIMARY CARE
BIRLEYWOOD HEALTH CENTRE, BIRLEYWOOD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 9BW
ODS code P81208
3.0 km
NEWTOWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PEMBERTON PC RESOURCE CTR, SHERWOOD DRIVE, WIGAN, WN5 9QX
ODS code P92021
3.1 km
PEMBERTON SURGERY
SHERWOOD DRIVE, PEMBERTON, WIGAN, WN5 9QX
ODS code P92019
3.1 km
SAXENA L
HOLMES HOUSE AVENUE, WINSTANLEY, WIGAN, WN3 6JN
ODS code P92038
3.3 km
MARSH GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HARROW ROAD, MARSH GREEN, WIGAN, WN5 0QL
ODS code Y02885
3.7 km
EXTENDED ACCESS
BEVAN HSE, 17 BEECHAM COURT, SMITHY BROOK ROAD, WIGAN, WN3 6PR
ODS code Y05088
3.8 km
WIGAN BOROUGH SPECIALIST SERVICES
WIGAN GP ALLIANCE LLP, BEVAN HOUSE, 17 BEECHAM COURT, WIGAN, WN3 6PR
ODS code Y07697
3.8 km
MANOR PRIMARY CARE
HILLSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, TANHOUSE ROAD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6DS
ODS code P81039
3.8 km
BILLINGE MEDICAL PRACTICE
FIRST FLOOR GARSWOOD SURGERY, BILLINGE ROAD, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 0XD
ODS code N83019
4.6 km
GARSWOOD SURGERY
BILLINGE ROAD, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, WIGAN, WN4 0XD
ODS code Y00475
4.6 km
KUMAR FAMILY PRACTICE
CHANDLER HOUSE, WORSLEY MESNES HEALTH CENTRE, POOLSTOCK LANE, WIGAN, WN3 5HL
ODS code P92024
4.7 km
MARUS BRIDGE PRACTICE
CHANDLER HOUSE, WORSLEY MESNES HEALTH CENTRE, POOLSTOCK LANE, WIGAN, WN3 5HL
ODS code P92642
4.7 km
SOUTH WIGAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHANDLER HOUSE, WORSLEY MESNES HEALTH CTR, POOLSTOCK LANE, WIGAN, WN3 5HL
ODS code P92647
4.7 km
ZAMAN
CHANDLER HOUSE, WORSLEY MESNES HEALTH CENTRE, POOLSTOCK LANE, WIGAN, WN3 5HL
ODS code P92005
4.7 km
SHEVINGTON SURGERY
HOUGHTON LANE, SHEVINGTON, WIGAN, WN6 8ET
ODS code P92017
4.7 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
Church Street
BCT · Orrell
- 0.1 miles
Church Street
BCT · Orrell
- 0.1 miles
Mill Road
BCT · Orrell
- 0.1 miles
Mill Road
BCT · Orrell
- 0.1 miles
Church Drive
BCT · Orrell
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wigan 018D, 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
28,467 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
- 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
52 open schools are in scope, including 37 primary and 4 secondary schools. St James' Catholic Primary School Orrell is the nearest published school at 395 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
139 published events cover 12 months, averaging 11.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 53 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.