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Standish

Standish is a settlement in Greater Manchester, England, featuring 2 GP surgeries, 1 supermarket, 13 restaurants or cafés, 49 bus stops, and the nearest railway station being Gathurst, 3.8 km away. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Standish area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Wigan area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 329,330 residents at roughly 1,750 people per km².

Council
Wigan
County
Greater Manchester
Constituency
Wigan
Police force
Greater Manchester
53/ 100

My Area Score

Good

Ranked 130th of 294 English council areas — better than 56% of them.

Low crime22
Home affordability85
Affordable rents88
Good schools87
Life expectancy12
Low deprivation34
Employment38
Low council tax93

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

10°COvercast

  • Today: 12° / 7° · 27% rain
  • Tomorrow: 11° / 5° · Sunny

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 07:10Sunset 16:38

9h 28m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

93US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · Wigan Centre, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 6.7 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 5.0% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

No street-level crime recorded here.

Road safety

219 reported road collisions (2025)

91 killed or seriously injured · 275 casualties · 6.6 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

182 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 125 rated 4–5 ★ (93 top)
  • 17 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Gathurst (3.2 km)
  • 45 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Gathurst (3.2 km):

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Source: OpenStreetMap, National Rail

House prices

£194,393 average▲ 2.8% YoY

Across Wigan · to 2026-08

Detached£316,388
Semi-detached£202,942
Terraced£157,752
Flat£106,371

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£746 average monthly rent▲ 6.6% YoY

  • 1 bed £542
  • 2 bed £700
  • 3 bed £838

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

5.9× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 5.9 times median annual pay (5.8× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

Property sales

4,223 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 156.9p · Esso (3.3 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 189.7p · Asda (8.7 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

42 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 19 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 300 kW
  • Nearest: 41 Shevington Moor (1.4 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Gyms1
  • Sports pitches28
  • Playgrounds16

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

329,330 residents in Wigan · 1,750/km²

  • Under 16: 18%
  • 16–64: 62%
  • 65+: 19%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK15,073
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK12,395
  • Net moves+2,678

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 102 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

16% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,153 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band A (45% of 153,530)

A £1,435
B £1,674
C £1,913
D £2,153
E £2,631
F £3,109
G £3,588
H £4,305

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

Schools

146 schools · 48,372 pupils

99 primary · 19 secondary · 28 other

Ofsted: 51 of 53 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (96%)

127 inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Secondary schools:

  • Golborne High SchoolOutstanding
  • Atherton High SchoolGood
  • Bedford High SchoolGood
  • Cansfield High SchoolGood
  • Lowton Church of England High SchoolGood
  • St Peter's Catholic High SchoolGood
  • The Byrchall High SchoolGood
  • The Westleigh SchoolGood
  • Dean Trust WiganRequires improvement
  • Dean Trust Rose Bridge
  • Fred Longworth High School
  • Hawkley Hall High School
  • Outwood Academy Hindley
  • Shevington High School
  • St Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic High School, Ashton-in-Makerfield
  • St John Fisher Catholic High School
  • St Mary's Catholic High School
  • Standish Community High School
  • The Deanery Church of England High School and Sixth Form College

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Wigan

Care & health services

259 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes61
  • GP practices62
  • Dentists57
  • Homecare agencies45
  • Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 96% of rated services Good or Outstanding

Source: Care Quality Commission · Wigan

Heritage & planning

  • Not in the Green Belt
  • 18 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

Planning decisions

180 applications decided

88.3% granted · 159 granted, 21 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Lisa Nandy

Labour

Wigan

Recent votes:

  • NoNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill Committee: New Clause 21
  • NoNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill Committee: Amendment 47
  • NoNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill Committee: Amendment 4
  • NoNorthern Ireland Troubles Bill Committee: Amendment 52

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Labour majority

  • Lab 42
  • Ref 25
  • Oth 7

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

Amenities nearby

  • Schools6
  • GPs & clinics3
  • Supermarkets2
  • Parks & greens25
  • Restaurants & cafés26

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

10,900 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

22 jobs advertised · £37,922 avg

e.g. Psychiatrist – ADHD & Mental Health Services – Remote, Nursery Room Leader, Car Delivery Driver

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£727 median full-time weekly pay

3.6% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£20,587 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

Energy efficiency

43% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 148,093 certificates

11.6% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

Grid electricity

84% low-carbon electricity

Nuclear 52% · Wind 32% · Imports 11% · Gas 5%

19 gCO₂/kWh · very low intensity

Latest estimate for North West England · National Grid ESO

Health

Life expectancy: 81.9 yrs women · 77.9 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 55.1 women · 54.6 men

74% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

Wellbeing

  • Life satisfaction7.6
  • Feeling worthwhile7.8
  • Happiness yesterday7.3
  • Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)3.0

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Health services

12 GP surgeries · 7 pharmacies in WN6

  • The Dicconson Group Practice
  • Beech Hill Medical Practice
  • Standish Medical Practice

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Wigan:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Standish, Greater Manchester · 0.3 km

    Standish is a village in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Within the boundaries of the historic county of Lancashire, it is on the A49 road between Chorley and Wigan, near Junction 27 of…

  • St Wilfrid's Church, Standish · 0.6 km

    The Church of St Wilfrid is in Market Place, Standish, Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Diocese of Blackburn. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England a…

  • Standish Community High School · 1.0 km

    Standish Community High School – known locally as Standish High – is a coeducational secondary school located in Standish in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England.

  • Standish Hall · 1.1 km

    Standish Hall was an estate and country house, built in 1573, owned by the Standish family in the south-west of Standish, Wigan. No standing structures of the hall remain on the former estate, however, some of its woo…

  • Shevington High School · 1.2 km

    Shevington High School is a coeducational secondary school located in Shevington in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan in Greater Manchester, England.

  • Bradley Hall, Standish · 1.6 km

    Bradley Hall is a Grade II* listed building on Bradley Lane in Standish, a village within the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, Greater Manchester, England. Historically part of Lancashire and originally a timber-framed…

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Standish?
Standish is a town in Greater Manchester, England, in the Wigan local authority.
How deprived is Standish?
The Wigan local authority, which includes Standish, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.