Renting in Wigan
Median asking rent · all sizes · 434 live listings · October 2026
Rent in Wigan before the rush.
The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Wigan is £850 a month, from 434 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
| Size | Median asking rent |
|---|---|
| 1-bed | £585/moasking · 73 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 2-bed | £795/moasking · 154 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 3-bed | £965/moasking · 161 listings · Oct 2026 |
| 4+ bed | £1,000/moasking · 31 listings · Oct 2026 |
| Room in a shared house | £575/moasking · 31 listings · Oct 2026 |
Asking rents from live listings on Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders · Updated . Weekly prices normalised to monthly. Each figure counts the live listings behind it; rooms are per room.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent in Wigan by size, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/wigan, updated 28 October 2026.
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Renting in Wigan
Wigan currently has 465 rental listings on the property sites we track, 434 of them whole homes rather than rooms in shared houses. The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Wigan is £850 a month, from 434 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026). 80 new homes appeared in the past week alone. Among the houses and flats listed, roughly 76% are houses and the rest are flats. How we measure this
Rents vary sharply by postcode. Median asking rents for homes of all sizes run from £795 a month in WN1 (77 live listings) to £875 in WN6 (68 live listings), the cheapest and priciest postcode districts we track in Wigan (Dwellio, October 2026). For a wider view of where the UK’s cheapest rents are, see our guide to the cheapest cities to rent in the UK.
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Rent by property size
Median monthly asking rent for each property size in Wigan, October 2026. Every figure carries the number of live listings behind it.
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Wigan is £585 a month, 31% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 73 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Wigan is £795 a month, 6% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 154 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Wigan is £965 a month, 14% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 161 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Wigan is £1,000 a month, 18% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 31 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Wigan is £575 a month, from 31 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
Medians exclude prices that fail our junk-listing floor. Room rents are per room, not per property. Each size needs at least 10 live listings. Studio figures are hidden for now: listings whose bedroom count we couldn’t read were being counted as studios. How we measure this
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Rent trend · ONS PIPR
The ONS average rent paid in Wigan is £749 a month, up 6.4% on a year earlier, across private tenancies of all sizes (Office for National Statistics, September 2026). The Office for National Statistics’ Price Index of Private Rents is the official series for rents being paid, including long-running tenancies; Dwellio’s figures above are asking rents.
Annual
+6.4%
vs a year earlier
Total change
+40%
since 2021
Source: Office for National Statistics · Price Index of Private Rents (PIPR). Updated monthly with a ~2-month lag. ONS uses Broad Rental Market Areas in Scotland — figures may aggregate beyond the city itself. How we measure this
Affordability · ONS ASHE
Renters in Wigan spend an estimated 28% of the local median gross salary on rent — based on the ONS Price Index of Private Rents and ASHE Table 8 (2025).
Median pay
£31,615/yr
Median gross annual pay for residents · ONS ASHE 2025
Rent burden
28%
Very affordable — well below the 30% rent-burden threshold.
Sources: Office for National Statistics — Price Index of Private Rents (latest month) and Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings Table 8.7a (median annual gross pay, place of residence). The 30% line is the conventional rent-burden threshold above which housing costs are considered to crowd out other essentials. How we measure this
Property types
22% of listings
69% of listings
8% of listings
1% of listings
Property mix · houses
Terraced houses make up 53% of the 256 houses currently advertised in Wigan.
Rent by postcode
Median monthly asking rent for homes of all sizes, grouped by postcode district, across 283 live listings in 5 districts (October 2026). Districts with fewer than 3 listings are skipped to avoid skew from a single luxury rental; rooms in shared houses are left out.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent by postcode district in Wigan, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/wigan, updated 28 October 2026.
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Features · Wigan
Live signal across 465 Wigan rentals scraped from six UK portals. Coverage varies by portal — figures below show the share of listings whose advertiser surfaces the feature.
Garden
84%
of 139 Wigan listings advertise a garden, patio, or terrace.
Parking
86%
of 166 Wigan listings include parking, a driveway, or a garage.
Live from the portals
80 homes came onto the Wigan rental market in the last 7 days across Rightmove, OnTheMarket, OpenRent, PrimeLocation, SpareRoom and Leaders. The freshest are below.
3 bed house
Upper St. Stephen Street, Wigan, Greater Manchester, WN6
3 bed property
City Road, Wigan WN5
3 bed property
Richmond Street, Worsley Mesnes, Wigan WN3
5 bed room
2 bed flat/apartment
2 bed flat/apartment
2 bed house
2 bed house
3 bed house
3 bed house
3 bed house
3 bed room
2 bed house
3 bed house
3 bed house
3 bed house
7 bed room
2 bed house
2 bed house
3 bed house
2 bed terraced house
Whitecroft Road, Hawkley Hall
3 bed terraced house
Earl Street, Wigan WN1
2 bed flat/apartment
Trencherfield Mill, Heritage Way, Wigan WN3
2 bed semi-detached house
Branthwaite, Belle Green Lane, Higher Ince
Listings refresh as our scraper picks up new properties for Wigan. Click through to the source portal to enquire.
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Council tax · VOA 2024
Most Wigan homes sit in Band A. The weighted average works out close to Band B–C across 152,670 properties on the council-tax list.
Modal band
A
most common band
Mean band
2.12
≈ Band B–C
Stock
153k
152,670 properties
Source: HM Valuation Office Agency — Council Tax Stock of Properties (CTSOP1.0), extract dated 31 March 2024. Covers England and Wales; Scotland and Northern Ireland use separate band schemes and aren't included.
Broadband · Ofcom Connected Nations
85% of Wigan premises can already get full-fibre and 97% can get gigabit speeds — Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage, July 2025.
Full fibre
85%
FTTP-ready premises
Gigabit
97%
≥1Gbit/s available
Superfast
100%
≥30Mbit/s available
Mean speed
489 Mbit/s
bucket-weighted estimate
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations residential coverage by Local Authority (Wigan), July 2025, covering 152,337 premises. Mean download speed is estimated from Ofcom speed-bucket midpoints.
Energy efficiency · DESNZ EPC
44% of Wigan homes hold a current EPC in bands A–C — the bands that meet the proposed 2030 minimum energy-efficiency standard for rented stock.
Bands A–C
44%
good energy-efficiency stock
Bands D–G
56%
below the proposed 2030 floor
Certificates
117k
116,640 EPCs
Source: DESNZ Energy Performance of Buildings register (replacement for opendatacommunities.org), domestic certificates filed under Wigan. Covers England and Wales — Scottish EPCs are held in a separate Scottish register and aren't included.
Schools · GIAS · DfE
11 open state-funded schools sit within one mile of the Wigan centroid. The five closest:
Mab's Cross Primary School
Primary · Community school · WN1 1XL
St Mary and St John Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · WN1 1XL
Douglas Valley Nursery School
Nursery · Local authority nursery school · WN1 3SU
The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form College
Secondary · Voluntary aided school · WN1 1HQ
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School
Primary · Voluntary aided school · WN1 3RZ
Source: DfE Get Information About Schools (state-funded extract). Distances are straight-line from each school's postcode to the Wigan centroid. Ofsted ratings were removed from GIAS in January 2025 and aren't available here.
Area safety
Based on the latest police data (October 2026), Wigan has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities. Across 87 of 87 postcode districts analysed, the median was 74 reported crimes per area. The most common category in Wigan is Anti-social behaviour, accounting for 0% of all incidents.
Wigan ranks well for renters concerned about neighbourhood safety. Every Dwellio alert includes the area’s crime data so you can compare at a glance.
Data from data.police.uk, updated monthly. Contains public-sector information licensed under OGL v3.0.
Area breakdown
Street-level crime counts from data.police.uk for August 2026, covering a ~1 mile radius around each suburb centre. Figures are normalised per 1,000 residents so you can compare neighbourhoods fairly.
Most common: Violent crime (1) · pop. ~28,000
No data available this month · pop. ~25,000
No data available this month · pop. ~13,000
Most common: Violent crime (2) · pop. ~12,000
Most common: Violent crime (1) · pop. ~13,000
Suburbs shown are representative populated areas; figures reflect street-level incidents within ~1 mile of each centre. Data from data.police.uk. Contains public-sector information licensed under OGL v3.0.
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The median asking rent for homes of all sizes in Wigan is £850 a month, from 434 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 1-bed in Wigan is £585 a month, 31% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 73 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 2-bed in Wigan is £795 a month, 6% below the median for homes of all sizes, from 154 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 3-bed in Wigan is £965 a month, 14% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 161 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a 4+ bed home in Wigan is £1,000 a month, 18% above the median for homes of all sizes, from 31 live listings on five property sites (Dwellio, October 2026).
The median asking rent for a room in a shared house in Wigan is £575 a month, from 31 live listings (Dwellio, October 2026).
There are currently 465 rental properties available in Wigan, with 80 new listings added in the last 7 days.
Wigan has a lower crime rate compared to other UK cities, with a median of 74 reported crimes per postcode area (October 2026). The most common category is Anti-social behaviour. Data from data.police.uk.
The most commonly reported crime category in Wigan is Anti-social behaviour, based on data.police.uk records for October 2026.
Across North West
How Wigan compares with the other 24 places we track in North West — median asking rent from live listings, updated October 2026.
Every city, every region, one table: the UK rental index.
Cite this: Dwellio, “Median asking rent across North West, October 2026”, dwellio.co.uk/rent/wigan, updated 28 October 2026.
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