Schools
45 open schools are in scope, including 33 primary and 5 secondary schools. Fir Tree College is the nearest published school at 410 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
WN6 8FH
Shevington with Lower Ground & Moor · Wigan · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WN6 8FH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 2000
- Terminated
- 1 May 2001
- Postcode area
- WN
- Postcode district
- WN6
- Postcode sector
- WN6 8
- Latitude
- 53.574188
- Longitude
- -2.710809
- British National Grid easting
- 353,029
- British National Grid northing
- 408,854
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wigan · E08000010
- Electoral ward
- Shevington with Lower Ground & Moor · E05015007
- Parish or community
- E04000014
- Westminster constituency
- Wigan · E14001585
- Output area
- E00032018
- Lower layer super output area
- Wigan 003G · E01006321
- Middle layer super output area
- Wigan 003 · E02001289
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
- 45
- Primary
- 33
- Secondary
- 5
- 410 m
Fir Tree College
Special post 16 institution
- 885 m
Shevington Vale Primary School
Community school
- 1.5 km
St Bernadette's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 33
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 13
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Criminal damage and arson 4
- Burglary 3
- Other crime 2
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- WN6 8 residents
- 11,683
Age bands in WN6 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 22.7%
2,057 residents
1,174 residents
2,795 residents
3,341 residents
2,743 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
11
within 5 km straight-line
SHEVINGTON SURGERY
HOUGHTON LANE, SHEVINGTON, WIGAN, WN6 8ET
ODS code P92017
755 m
STANDISH MEDICAL PRACTICE
49 HIGH STREET, STANDISH, WIGAN, WN6 0HD
ODS code P92014
3.5 km
MARSH GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
HARROW ROAD, MARSH GREEN, WIGAN, WN5 0QL
ODS code Y02885
4.0 km
HALL GREEN SURGERY
164 ORMSKIRK ROAD, UPHOLLAND, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 0AB
ODS code P81084
4.2 km
ASHURST PRIMARY CARE
ASHURST HEALTH CENTRE, LULWORTH, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6QS
ODS code P81201
4.3 km
BRADSHAW MEDICAL CENTRE
BRADSHAW STREET, ORRELL, WIGAN, WN5 0AB
ODS code P92008
4.3 km
MANOR PRIMARY CARE
HILLSIDE HEALTH CENTRE, TANHOUSE ROAD, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6DS
ODS code P81039
4.5 km
PARBOLD SURGERY
4 THE GREEN, PARBOLD, WIGAN, WN8 7DN
ODS code P81096
4.6 km
NEWTOWN MEDICAL PRACTICE
PEMBERTON PC RESOURCE CTR, SHERWOOD DRIVE, WIGAN, WN5 9QX
ODS code P92021
4.8 km
PEMBERTON SURGERY
SHERWOOD DRIVE, PEMBERTON, WIGAN, WN5 9QX
ODS code P92019
4.8 km
BEECH HILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
278 GIDLOW LANE, BEECH HILL, WIGAN, WN6 7PD
ODS code P92010
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Forest Fold
BCT · Shevington Vale
- 0.1 miles
Forest Fold
BCT · Shevington Vale
- 0.3 miles
Miles Lane
BCT · Shevington
- 0.3 miles
Miles Lane
BCT · Shevington
- 0.3 miles
Mill Lane
BCT · Shevington Vale
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wigan 003G, 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
30,582 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
33 published events cover 12 months, averaging 2.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 13 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.