Orrell & Longshaw
Middle areaWest Wigan. 12,854 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 11 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by middle area
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 31% of people in Orrell & Longshaw live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
Recorded crime in Orrell & Longshaw
Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester.
How Orrell & Longshaw compares
Each dot is a middle area. The black line marks the middle one.
What is the population of Orrell & Longshaw?
Orrell & Longshaw had 12,764 usual residents at the census.
Orrell & Longshaw is the 135th 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 Orrell & Longshaw alone. See Wigan
Orrell & Longshaw in brief
The median price paid for a home in Orrell & Longshaw was £228,000 in 2025.
Orrell & Longshaw had 12,764 usual residents at the census.
About 31% of people in Orrell & Longshaw live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Orrell & Longshaw, 96.7% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.