Ashton-in-Makerfield East
Middle areaSouth west Wigan. 7,974 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 5.3 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 30% of people in Ashton-in-Makerfield East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Ashton-in-Makerfield East
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Ashton-in-Makerfield East compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Ashton-in-Makerfield East?
Ashton-in-Makerfield East had 8,005 usual residents at the census.
Ashton-in-Makerfield East is the joint 3,550th most populated of 9,448 in the UK.
Figures for the whole of Wigan
These figures are published for the whole of Wigan, not for each middle area, so they describe all of Wigan and not Ashton-in-Makerfield East alone. See Wigan
Ashton-in-Makerfield East in brief
The median price paid for a home in Ashton-in-Makerfield East was £186,000 in 2025.
Ashton-in-Makerfield East had 8,005 usual residents at the census.
About 30% of people in Ashton-in-Makerfield East live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ashton-in-Makerfield East, 99.0% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.