M46 — house prices & area data
A free, sourced snapshot of M46, Leigh and Atherton from Acreright. Every figure shows its source and date; where the data isn’t reliable we say so rather than guess.
M46 is a postcode district in Leigh and Atherton. Homes here sold for a median of £180,000 over the last year, up 30.7% over five years. 11,472 sales are on record. Parts of it rank among England’s more-deprived areas (53% of its postcodes are in the most-deprived 30%). 54% of homes are rated EPC C or better.
- £102,898 median sold price (all time)
- £180,000 median price, last 12 months
- 11,472 recorded sales
- +30.7% 5-year price change
- 16% of postcodes in England’s least-deprived 30%
- 54% of homes rated EPC C or better
- Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid & English Indices of Deprivation, Jul 2026
Recent sales
| Address | Type | Price | Date |
|---|
| 24 Defiance Street | Terraced | £145,000 | May 2026 |
| 5 Desmond Street | Terraced | £169,000 | May 2026 |
| 90 Wigan Road | Terraced | £171,000 | May 2026 |
| 53 Stanley Street | Terraced | £170,000 | Apr 2026 |
| 25 Car Bank Crescent | Semi | £164,000 | Apr 2026 |
| 19 Meadowbank Avenue | Semi | £240,000 | Apr 2026 |
| 11 Lancaster Avenue | Semi | £249,000 | Apr 2026 |
| 8 Shalefield Gardens | Flat | £128,000 | Apr 2026 |
| 107 Bolton Road | Terraced | £197,000 | Apr 2026 |
| 128 Tyldesley Road | Terraced | £140,000 | Apr 2026 |
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid · Jul 2026
Crime
Greater Manchester Police does not publish street-level crime to police.uk — a known force-level data gap, not a crime-free area, so we don’t show a figure here that would imply zero.
Street-level crime map near here →
Across the wider Wigan district
The figures below cover Wigan — the council district M46 sits within, the finest grain we publish for schools, health, transport, amenities and who lives here.
- £182,500 median home price (HM Land Registry Price Paid, May 2026)
- 329,330 residents (ONS Census 2021 (Nomis), 2021)
- 93% of inspected schools rated Good or Outstanding (Get Information About Schools (GIAS) + Ofsted inspections MI, 2026)
- ≈28 min fastest train to Manchester (OpenStreetMap + National Rail timetable (ATOC/RDG, GTFS), 2026)
- 87% of premises can get gigabit broadband (Ofcom Connected Nations 2024, Jul 2024)
Open the full Wigan district report →
Prices by postcode sector
| Sector | Median price | Sales |
|---|
| M46 0 | £172,500 | 6,706 |
| M46 9 | £191,500 | 4,766 |
Median sold price — most recent 12 months where available, else all-time. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid.
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