Ashton-in-Makerfield West
Middle areaSouth west Wigan. 7,212 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 1.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 83% of people in Ashton-in-Makerfield West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Ashton-in-Makerfield West
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 West compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Ashton-in-Makerfield West?
Ashton-in-Makerfield West had 7,206 usual residents at the census.
Ashton-in-Makerfield West is the joint 4,550th least 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 West alone. See Wigan
Ashton-in-Makerfield West in brief
The median price paid for a home in Ashton-in-Makerfield West was £192,000 in 2025.
Ashton-in-Makerfield West had 7,206 usual residents at the census.
About 83% of people in Ashton-in-Makerfield West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Ashton-in-Makerfield West, 98.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.