Buy-to-let in Wigan

Wigan in figures

Gross rental yield

6.0%

On terraced houses across Wigan

Entry price, across its towns

£165,000 to £170,000

The cheapest postcode district's median sale

Price move, 12 months

+5.6%

UK House Price Index, across Wigan

Price move, 10 years

+71.2%

UK House Price Index, across Wigan

Population

347,089

Wigan, +5.9% growth

• Terraced houses across Wigan let for £750/mo against a median sale of £150,000 there: 6.0% gross before costs, on ONS rents and sold prices for the whole authority.
• ONS puts the median rent across the whole local authority at £746/mo, which is the figure to check an asking rent against.
• Prices here rose 5.6% over the last year on the mix-adjusted UK HPI, which is measured for the whole local authority.

• Prices +71% over ten years
• £9,400 stamp duty with the 5% surcharge on a £170,000 buy-to-let
• 3 regeneration awards
• 1,169 homes added
• Band D £2,153
• 0.7% long-term empty
• +28% five-year forecast for North West as a whole (Savills), not this area

These figures are from Clarity's monthly ranking dataset, one method across every place so they compare. The Wigan report measures the area in more depth over its own twelve months, so its figures are the ones to quote.

What sits behind the figures

Prices across Wigan moved +71.2% over ten years on the UK House Price Index, and prices are at or near their highest.

Employee jobs across Wigan moved +5.7% from 2015 to 2024 (ONS Business Register and Employment Survey).

51% of the energy performance certificates lodged across Wigan's postcode districts are below band C (85,968 certificates). Clarity measures areas rather than individual homes, so this is the share of the local stock likely to need energy-efficiency work before it meets a band C standard, not a survey of any one property.

A buy-to-let at £170,000 pays £9,400 in Stamp Duty Land Tax, including the 5% surcharge on additional homes.

The five-year forecast quoted above (Savills, North West) is a regional figure for North West as a whole, not a forecast for Wigan, and Clarity does not rank on it.

Towns in Wigan

Each yield is Wigan's, for the kind of home that town's prices point to, and the year's price move is measured across Wigan as a whole, so towns pointing to the same kind of home share a yield.

The Wigan report

The full report measures Wigan from its own sales: sold prices and rents for each type of home, the year's price move, crime per resident and worker, flood risk, planning designations, housing delivery and regeneration funding, with a worked buy-to-let deal on your own budget. This edition was built in October 2026.

Read the cover of the Wigan report, free, with its headline figures, before you decide.

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Compare it with everywhere else

The investment map ranks Wigan against every other place we cover, on your own budget and strategy. Questions about the figures or about us are answered here.