Property market
The five-year median is £175,000 from 1 recorded sale in WN6 9PS. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for West Lancashire is £231,816 in June 2026, up 4.3% year on year.
WN6 9PS
Rural North East · West Lancashire · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Wigan
- Ward
- Rural North East
- Local authority
- West Lancashire
- Constituency
- West Lancashire
- Postcode district
- WN6
- Postcode sector
- WN6 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- WN6 9PS
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- WN
- Postcode district
- WN6
- Postcode sector
- WN6 9
- Latitude
- 53.599447
- Longitude
- -2.730000
- British National Grid easting
- 351,787
- British National Grid northing
- 411,677
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- West Lancashire · E07000127
- Electoral ward
- Rural North East · E05014936
- Parish or community
- E04005317
- Westminster constituency
- West Lancashire · E14001577
- Output area
- E00129593
- Lower layer super output area
- West Lancashire 005D · E01025538
- Middle layer super output area
- West Lancashire 005 · E02005308
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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Boggart House Barns, High Moor Lane, Wrightington, Wigan, WN6 9PS | 9 October 2024 | £175,000 |
| High Moor House, 1, High Moor Lane, Wrightington, Wigan, WN6 9PS | 12 March 2019 | £950,000 |
| Boggart House Barns, High Moor Lane, Wrightington, Wigan, WN6 9PS | 24 February 2017 | £80,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 28
- Primary
- 21
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.5 km
Appley Bridge All Saints Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 2.1 km
Wrightington Mossy Lea Primary School
Community school
- 2.3 km
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Wrightington
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 44
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 17
- Anti social behaviour 9
- Criminal damage and arson 6
- Other theft 4
- Vehicle crime 3
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 15
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- WN6 9 residents
- 5,338
8 female, 7 male
Age bands in WN6 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31%
- Age 65 and over
- 27.6%
707 residents
446 residents
909 residents
1,545 residents
1,374 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider WN6 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+
- 83.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 83.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 83.3%
- 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
4
within 5 km
PARBOLD SURGERY
4 THE GREEN, PARBOLD, WIGAN, WN8 7DN
ODS code P81096
3.0 km
SHEVINGTON SURGERY
HOUGHTON LANE, SHEVINGTON, WIGAN, WN6 8ET
ODS code P92017
3.5 km
STANDISH MEDICAL PRACTICE
49 HIGH STREET, STANDISH, WIGAN, WN6 0HD
ODS code P92014
4.9 km
ASHURST PRIMARY CARE
ASHURST HEALTH CENTRE, LULWORTH, SKELMERSDALE, WN8 6QS
ODS code P81201
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
- 0.5 miles
Robin Hood Lane
BCT · Dangerous Corner
- 0.6 miles
The Grove
BCT · Dangerous Corner
- 0.6 miles
Robin Hood Lane
BCT · Dangerous Corner
- 0.6 miles
The Grove
BCT · Dangerous Corner
- 0.7 miles
Stoneygate Lane
BCT · Appley Bridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Lancashire 005D, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,941 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
- 2
- 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
28 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 2 secondary schools. Appley Bridge All Saints Church of England Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
44 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 17 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.