WN7 — house prices & area data
A free, sourced snapshot of WN7, Leigh and Atherton from Acreright. Every figure shows its source and date; where the data isn’t reliable we say so rather than guess.
WN7 is a postcode district in Leigh and Atherton. Homes here sold for a median of £165,000 over the last year, up 17.9% over five years. 27,491 sales are on record. Parts of it rank among England’s more-deprived areas (71% of its postcodes are in the most-deprived 30%). 52% of homes are rated EPC C or better.
- £85,000 median sold price (all time)
- £165,000 median price, last 12 months
- 27,491 recorded sales
- +17.9% 5-year price change
- 13% of postcodes in England’s least-deprived 30%
- 52% of homes rated EPC C or better
- Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid & English Indices of Deprivation, Sep 2026
Recent sales
| Address | Type | Price | Date |
|---|
| 15 Browning Street | Terraced | £125,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 41 Tennyson Avenue | Semi | £185,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 16 Wateredge Close | Terraced | £305,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 9 Thelwall Close | Semi | £73,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 3 Eldon Street | Semi | £176,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 23 Melrose Avenue | Terraced | £155,000 | Jul 2026 |
| The Mews Orchard Lane | Flat | £132,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 31 Gordon Street | Terraced | £119,950 | Jul 2026 |
| 35 Warrington Road | Terraced | £113,000 | Jul 2026 |
| 36 Westleigh Lane | Terraced | £80,000 | Jul 2026 |
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid · Sep 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 WN7 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)
- 90% 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)
- 77.6 · 81.9 yrs life expectancy (men · women) (OSM (NHS facilities) + IoD2025 health domain + OHID Fingertips (outcomes), 2026/2025)
Open the full Wigan district report →
Prices by postcode sector
| Sector | Median price | Sales |
|---|
| WN7 1 | £140,000 | 6,546 |
| WN7 2 | £165,000 | 5,727 |
| WN7 3 | £195,000 | 4,946 |
| WN7 4 | £143,750 | 5,064 |
| WN7 5 | £169,000 | 5,208 |
Median sold price — most recent 12 months where available, else all-time. Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid.
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