Property market
The five-year median is £140,200 from 5 recorded sales in WN5 9HW. 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 9HW
Douglas · Wigan · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WN5 9HW
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WN
- Postcode district
- WN5
- Postcode sector
- WN5 9
- Latitude
- 53.533518
- Longitude
- -2.667899
- British National Grid easting
- 355,828
- British National Grid northing
- 404,302
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wigan · E08000010
- Electoral ward
- Douglas · E05014996
- Parish or community
- E43000164
- Westminster constituency
- Wigan · E14001585
- Output area
- E00032191
- Lower layer super output area
- Wigan 014C · E01006355
- Middle layer super output area
- Wigan 014 · E02001300
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
30 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Tansley Square, Wigan, WN5 9HW | 13 February 2026 | £162,000 |
| 5, Tansley Square, Wigan, WN5 9HW | 29 November 2023 | £140,200 |
| 9, Tansley Square, Wigan, WN5 9HW | 18 November 2022 | £130,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 65
- Primary
- 44
- Secondary
- 8
- 455 m
Highfield St Matthew's Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
- 673 m
St Cuthbert's Catholic Primary School Wigan
Voluntary aided school
- 1.0 km
Expanse Learning Wigan School
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 5
- Drugs 1
- Other crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 37
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- WN5 9 residents
- 13,288
18 female, 19 male
Age bands in WN5 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.3%
2,857 residents
1,498 residents
3,638 residents
3,103 residents
2,156 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WN5 9 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
27
within 5 km
NEWTOWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PEMBERTON PC RESOURCE CTR, SHERWOOD DRIVE, WIGAN, WN5 9QX
ODS code P92021
565 m
PEMBERTON SURGERY
SHERWOOD DRIVE, PEMBERTON, WIGAN, WN5 9QX
ODS code P92019
565 m
EXTENDED ACCESS
BEVAN HSE, 17 BEECHAM COURT, SMITHY BROOK ROAD, WIGAN, WN3 6PR
ODS code Y05088
815 m
WIGAN BOROUGH SPECIALIST SERVICES
WIGAN GP ALLIANCE LLP, BEVAN HOUSE, 17 BEECHAM COURT, WIGAN, WN3 6PR
ODS code Y07697
815 m
SAXENA L
HOLMES HOUSE AVENUE, WINSTANLEY, WIGAN, WN3 6JN
ODS code P92038
1.4 km
BRADSHAW MEDICAL CENTRE
BRADSHAW STREET, ORRELL, WIGAN, WN5 0AB
ODS code P92008
1.5 km
KUMAR FAMILY PRACTICE
CHANDLER HOUSE, WORSLEY MESNES HEALTH CENTRE, POOLSTOCK LANE, WIGAN, WN3 5HL
ODS code P92024
1.7 km
MARUS BRIDGE PRACTICE
CHANDLER HOUSE, WORSLEY MESNES HEALTH CENTRE, POOLSTOCK LANE, WIGAN, WN3 5HL
ODS code P92642
1.7 km
SOUTH WIGAN MEDICAL PRACTICE
CHANDLER HOUSE, WORSLEY MESNES HEALTH CTR, POOLSTOCK LANE, WIGAN, WN3 5HL
ODS code P92647
1.7 km
ZAMAN
CHANDLER HOUSE, WORSLEY MESNES HEALTH CENTRE, POOLSTOCK LANE, WIGAN, WN3 5HL
ODS code P92005
1.7 km
MARSH GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HARROW ROAD, MARSH GREEN, WIGAN, WN5 0QL
ODS code Y02885
1.7 km
THE DICCONSON GROUP PRACTICE
FROG LANE, WIGAN, WN6 7LB
ODS code P92003
2.3 km
BEECH HILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
278 GIDLOW LANE, BEECH HILL, WIGAN, WN6 7PD
ODS code P92010
2.9 km
MESNES VIEW SURGERY
93 MESNES STREET, WIGAN, WN1 1ST
ODS code P92634
3.0 km
DR SEABROOK
1 WRIGHTINGTON STREET, WIGAN, WN1 2AZ
ODS code P92030
3.1 km
SULLIVAN WAY SURGERY
SULLIVAN WAY, SCHOLES, WIGAN, WN1 3TB
ODS code P92011
3.5 km
INCE SURGERY
CLARE HOUSE, PHOENIX WAY, INCE, WIGAN, WN3 4NW
ODS code P92620
3.5 km
RIVINGTON WAY SURGERY
PHOENIX WAY, INCE, WIGAN, WN3 4NW
ODS code Y02274
3.5 km
LONGSHOOT MEDICAL PRACTICE
LONGSHOOT HEALTH CENTRE, SCHOLES, WIGAN, WN1 3NH
ODS code P92026
3.6 km
BRYN CROSS SURGERY
246 WIGAN ROAD, ASHTON-IN-MAKERFIELD, BRYN, WIGAN, WN4 0AR
ODS code P92034
3.9 km
Showing 20 of 27 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hillary Avenue
BCT · Pemberton
- 0.1 miles
Hillary Avenue
BCT · Pemberton
- 0.1 miles
Sherwood Drive
BCT · Pemberton
- 0.2 miles
Sherwood Drive
BCT · Pemberton
- 0.2 miles
Pemberton Rail Station
BCT · Pemberton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wigan 014C, 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
12,900 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 3 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
- 3
- 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
65 open schools are in scope, including 44 primary and 8 secondary schools. Highfield St Matthew's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 455 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
7 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.