Atherton South West
Middle areaEast Wigan. 8,693 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 4.9 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 93% of people in Atherton South West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Atherton South West
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Atherton South West compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Atherton South West?
Atherton South West had 8,354 usual residents at the census.
Atherton South West is the 2,955th 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 Atherton South West alone. See Wigan
Atherton South West in brief
The median price paid for a home in Atherton South West was £181,000 in 2025.
Atherton South West had 8,354 usual residents at the census.
About 93% of people in Atherton South West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Atherton South West, 90.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.