Lowton Common

Wigan · North West · population 8,349 · 5 LSOAs

Approximate neighbourhood (MSOA) boundary. © OpenStreetMap contributors; boundary © ONS / Crown copyright.

58Area Score / 100 ?
  • #2,884 of 6,856 in England
  • #324 of 932 in North West
  • #11 of 40 in Wigan
  • Around the England average
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People living here Census 2021

Residents8,165
Median age (est.)44
Density1,346per km²
No qualifications15%
Degree or above30%
No car or van13%

Age

0–14 17%15–24 10%25–44 24%45–64 27%65+ 22%

Tenure

Own outright: 40%Mortgage/shared: 37%Social rent: 10%Private rent: 12%
Own outright 40%Mortgage/shared 37%Social rent 10%Private rent 12%

Households

One person: 28%Couple, no children: 19%Couple with children: 27%Lone parent: 10%Other: 16%
One person 28%Couple, no children 19%Couple with children 27%Lone parent 10%Other 16%

Work (top occupations)

Professional 20% · Associate professional 15% · Managers & directors 13%

All occupation groups
Professional20%
Associate professional15%
Managers & directors13%
Skilled trades10%
Administrative10%
Caring & leisure9%
Sales & customer service8%
Elementary8%
Process & plant7%

Ethnic group

White: 96%Asian: 1%Black: 1%Mixed: 1%Other: 0%
White 96%Asian 1%Black 1%Mixed 1%Other 0%

Religion & identity

Christian 61% · No religion 32% · Muslim 1%

Born outside the UK: 4%

Census 2021 (ONS), Crown copyright, OGL v3.0. Shares are of each question's own respondents (e.g. education is % of residents aged 16+). Figures date from March 2021 and change slowly between censuses.

In summary

Lowton Common is close to the England average for deprivation, ranked #2,884 of 6,856 neighbourhoods nationally, and #11 of 40 in Wigan. Across the seven themes it scores highest on Living environment (69) and lowest on Health (38). Typical homes here sold for about £229,000 over the past year, up 24% across five years (from 145 sales), 15% above the wider Wigan median of £198,750. Cheaper homes only partly offset the deprivation score, leaving it at #712 of 6,851 on our affordability-adjusted measure. Typical household take-home income is around £35,818 a year, in the bottom third of England.

Themed scores ?

Each 0–100, higher = less deprived on that theme. National rank shown.

Income 58 · #2,911
Employment 50 · #3,453
Education 59 · #2,802
Health 38 · #4,269
Crime 51 · #3,364
Housing & access 55 · #3,110
Living environment 69 · #2,116

House prices ?

£229,000median (12m) · -0.4% yr · n=145
TypeMedian (12m)Sales1yr5yr
All homes£229,000145-0.4%+23.8%
Detached£352,50060-7.2%+46.9%
Semi-detached£222,500400.0%+27.1%
Terraced£169,99541+3.2%+34.1%
FlatToo few sales to report (n=4)
This area£229,000
Wigan£198,750
North West£225,000
England£300,000
Annual median price, all homes. Small samples can be volatile.

Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Household income

Net household income (a year)£35,818±£4,999 · #4,773 of 6,856
After housing costs (equivalised)£32,187
Price-to-income ?6.4×typical home ÷ net income — less stretched than the England figure of 7.5×

Model-based ONS estimates (FYE 2023) with 95% confidence intervals — a guide to the typical household, not a measurement. How income estimates work →

Affordability-adjusted Score ?

90Affordability-adjusted Score / 100
Best-value areas in England →

Recorded crime

No recorded-crime data: the police force covering Lowton Common has not published usable street-level data for this period, so no rate or comparison is shown (a zero here would be misleading, not reassuring).

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