Schools
27 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 3 secondary schools. My Life Learning is the nearest published school at 435 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WN6 0QY
Standish with Langtree · Wigan · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WN6 0QY
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1993
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- WN
- Postcode district
- WN6
- Postcode sector
- WN6 0
- Latitude
- 53.594556
- Longitude
- -2.679859
- British National Grid easting
- 355,100
- British National Grid northing
- 411,100
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wigan · E08000010
- Electoral ward
- Standish with Langtree · E05015008
- Parish or community
- E43000164
- Westminster constituency
- Wigan · E14001585
- Output area
- E00031993
- Lower layer super output area
- Wigan 001A · E01006315
- Middle layer super output area
- Wigan 001 · E02001287
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 WN6
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 27
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 3
- 435 m
My Life Learning
Special post 16 institution
- 569 m
Standish Community High School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Wrightington
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 13
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Other theft 5
- Violence and sexual offences 3
- Drugs 2
- Other crime 1
- Vehicle crime 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WN6 0 residents
- 15,036
Age bands in WN6 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 20.4%
2,474 residents
1,496 residents
3,862 residents
4,355 residents
3,117 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.
GP practices
4
within 5 km straight-line
STANDISH MEDICAL PRACTICE
49 HIGH STREET, STANDISH, WIGAN, WN6 0HD
ODS code P92014
1.7 km
SHEVINGTON SURGERY
HOUGHTON LANE, SHEVINGTON, WIGAN, WN6 8ET
ODS code P92017
2.6 km
COPPULL MEDICAL PRACTICE
5 ACRESWOOD CLOSE, COPPULL, CHORLEY, PR7 5EN
ODS code P81033
3.0 km
BEECH HILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
278 GIDLOW LANE, BEECH HILL, WIGAN, WN6 7PD
ODS code P92010
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Hyatt Crescent
BCT · Langtree
- 0.1 miles
Hyatt Crescent
BCT · Langtree
- 0.1 miles
Almond Green Avenue
BCT · Langtree
- 0.1 miles
Almond Green Avenue
BCT · Langtree
- 0.2 miles
Old Pepper Lane
BCT · Shevington Moor
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wigan 001A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,981 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
Recorded crime
13 published events cover 12 months, averaging 1.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Other theft with 5 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.