Lowton East · Wigan · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeWithin 3.1 miles of this postcode
Gilded Hollins Community School
Community school
Lowton Church of England High School
Foundation school
Expanse Learning (Expanse Group Ltd)
Special post 16 institution
Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
1,676 residents
1,009 residents
2,435 residents
2,925 residents
2,245 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.
17
within 5 km
LEIGH STADIUM, SALE WAY, LEIGH, WN7 4JY
ODS code Y02886
932 m
208C NEWTON ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2AQ
ODS code P92651
2.0 km
HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code P92602
2.1 km
BRIDGEWATER MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code Y02322
2.1 km
THE BRIDGEWATER MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code Y00050
2.1 km
OLD HENRY STREET MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PG
ODS code P92007
2.1 km
BRIDGEWATER MEDICAL CENTRE, HENRY STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2PE
ODS code P92621
2.1 km
COLLEGE STREET, LEIGH, WN7 2RB
ODS code P92023
2.4 km
36 BRAITHWAITE ROAD, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2HY
ODS code P92002
2.6 km
216 SLAG LANE, LOWTON, WARRINGTON, WA3 2EZ
ODS code P92648
2.6 km
LEIGH HEALTH CENTRE, THE AVENUE, LEIGH, WN7 1HR
ODS code P92607
2.9 km
LEIGH HEALTH CENTRE, THE AVENUE, LEIGH, WN7 1HR
ODS code P92615
2.9 km
4-12 WESTLEIGH LANE, LEIGH, WN7 5JE
ODS code P92029
3.3 km
JACKSON AVENUE, CULCHETH, WARRINGTON, WA3 4DZ
ODS code N81059
3.4 km
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92639
3.9 km
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KID GLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92630
3.9 km
GOLBORNE HEALTH CENTRE, KIDGLOVE ROAD, GOLBORNE, WARRINGTON, WA3 3GS
ODS code P92012
3.9 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.
Pennington Flash
BCT · Lowton Common
Pennington Flash
BCT · Lowton Common
Moss Industrial Estate
BCT · Lowton Common
Jean Avenue
BCT · Pennington
Moss Industrial Estate
BCT · Lowton Common
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wigan 040B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,469 of 33,755
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.
43 open schools are in scope, including 34 primary and 6 secondary schools. Gilded Hollins Community School is the nearest published school at 451 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
4 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.