Wigan

Borough Commander John Harding

There are four fire stations in Wigan:

• Wigan - Station No: W54
• Hindley - Station No: W55
• Atherton - Station No: W56
• Leigh - Station No: W57

Contact us

To contact the team at Wigan Borough please call 01942 650 126/27.

Wigan community room

Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service has developed community rooms on some of our stations throughout the 10 Metropolitan boroughs we serve. These rooms are available for community use free of charge for relevant community activities with a key focus on areas such as health, education, crime & disorder, housing and employment. All we ask is that your reason for using our room is relevant and appropriate, i.e. it contributes to securing safer communities by addressing one or more of the areas listed above. In Wigan borough, we have a community room at Wigan fire station. To find out more information or to book it please call 01942 650127.

About Wigan

• Wigan Borough has a population of 301,415 with 125,096 households.
• Wigan Borough includes towns such as Ashton-in-Makerfield, Leigh, Golborne, Orrell, Tyldesley, Hindley, Standish, Aspull, Atherton, Winstanley, Lowton, Billinge, and Shevington to name but a few.
• In terms of the population, 6% are under 4, 15% are aged 5 - 15, 5% are aged 16 - 19, 35% are 20 - 44 years olds, 25% are 45 - 64 and 14% are over 65.
• The majority of the boroughs population (98.7%) class themselves as White, 0.44% are Asian or British Asian, 0.43% are Mixed Race, 0.18% are Black or Black British and 0.25% are Chinese or Other Ethnic Group.
• 3.33% of Wigan's population is unemployed - this is just lower than the national average of 3.35%.
• 41.71% are employed full-time, 11.92% are employed part-time and 6.23% are self-employed.
• 29.92% own their house outright, 41.83% own a house with a mortgage or loan, 0.43% have a shared ownership, 17.67% rent from the Council, 2.20% rent from a housing association or registered social landlord, 4.70% rent from a private landlord or letting agency and 3.36% rent from another source.
• Wigan was ranked 54th out of 355 local authorities in the English indices of deprivation (2004). 
• Sport England's 2006 Active People Survey, conducted by Ipsos MORI revealed that Wigan was ranked third out of the 10 authorities in Greater Manchester with 21.2% of adults hitting the recommended target of 30 minutes of sport or active recreation on three days per week, compared to the Greater Manchester average of 19.9%.

Much of the information listed above is taken from the 2001 Census 

 Places of risk identified in Wigan

• Wigan Metropolitan Borough has approximately over 120,000 domestic properties and 8,728 non-domestic properties including medium to light industry, offices, retail type premises and entertainment venues such as the JJB Stadium.
• Wigan is close to the M6 motorway and has rail links to Manchester, Preston and Liverpool, with the main line link from London to Scotland running through its centre.