Social housing in Wigan
17.0% of households in Wigan are social housing — council or housing-association homes — according to the 2021–22 Census. That is close to the UK average of 17.5%.
How much social housing is there in Wigan?
Wigan ranks 131st of 374 UK local authorities by social-housing share. Of its 143,136 households, 24,322 are social homes (17.0%) — renting from the council or a housing association.
How does Wigan compare with the UK average?
At -0.5 percentage points versus the UK average of 17.5%, Wigan sits close to the national level.
Wigan at a glance
Beyond housing, here is what the map's other datasets say about Wigan.
Schools
On the Department for Education's register, Wigan has 145 schools — 135 state-funded and 10 independent. That includes 99 primary and 19 secondary schools. Of the 53 with a published Ofsted grade, 96% are Good or Outstanding.
Nurseries
There are 133 nurseries and pre-schools on Ofsted's childcare register in Wigan, offering about 7,150 registered childcare places. Childminders are not counted — Ofsted withholds their addresses.
Deprivation
The median neighbourhood in Wigan sits in decile 4 of 10 on its nation's deprivation index, and 29% of its 200 neighbourhoods fall in the most-deprived national fifth.
House prices
The median neighbourhood price is about £2,249 per m², from Land Registry sold prices matched to EPC floor areas.
Broadband
Median available download speed is about 1,000 Mbit/s — what can be ordered, not what residents have bought (Ofcom Connected Nations).
Explore Wigan
See Wigan through the other lenses on the interactive map — house prices, recorded crime and anti-social behaviour, road & rail noise, deprivation and broadband:
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Figures: 2021–22 Census · Page updated 15 August 2026 · Download the full dataset (CSV, all 374 councils).