Wigan urban area

The Wigan Urban Area is an area of land defined by the Office for National Statistics consisting of the built-up, or 'urbanised' area containing Wigan in Greater Manchester and Skelmersdale in West Lancashire.

The subdivisions of the Wigan Built-up Area highlighted.

The Urban Area includes the integrated conurbation around Wigan, (containing the contiguous areas of Ince-in-Makerfield and Wigan itself), along with the outlying areas of Standish, Abram and the West Lancashire town of Skelmersdale.

The Wigan Urban Area has a total population of 175,405.^[1] This is an increase of 5% on the 2001 figure of 166,840.^[2]

Constituent parts

The historic town of Wigan forms an integrated conurbation along with the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan district of Ince-in-Makerfield, which is connected by ribbon development to Standish, Platt Bridge and Abram. Together with Skelmersdale in West Lancashire, these areas are defined by the Office for National Statistics as the Wigan Urban Area.

Breakdown

The ONS figures were broken down into constituent parts, and an individual population figure was given for each. These were:

Rank (2011)	Urban sub-area name	2011 [1]	2001[3]	1991[4]	1981[5]
1	Wigan	103,608	81,203	85,819	88,901
2	Skelmersdale	34,535	39,279	42,104	42,609
3	Standish	13,701	14,350	12,196	11,532
4	Ince in Makerfield	12,243	10,941	10,554	11,013
5	Abram/Platt Bridge	10,315	9,855	11,482	12,423
6	Worthington	1,083
	Orrell		11,212	12,251	12,600
	Total	175,485	166,840	174,406	179,078

Notes

• Orrell is included under the Wigan subdivision in the 2011 census data.
• The Abram subdivision was renamed Platt Bridge in the 2011 census.
• The Worthington subdivision was part of the Standish subdivision in the 2001 census.