Hindley West
Middle areaCentral Wigan. 9,346 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 4.6 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 20% of people in Hindley West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Hindley West
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Hindley West compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Hindley West?
Hindley West had 8,690 usual residents at the census.
Hindley West is the joint 2,481st 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 Hindley West alone. See Wigan
Hindley West in brief
The median price paid for a home in Hindley West was £220,000 in 2025.
Hindley West had 8,690 usual residents at the census.
About 20% of people in Hindley West live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Hindley West, 95.2% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.