Crap Towns / Wigston / Broadband
How bad is the broadband in Wigston?
In January 2026, 0.2% of premises in Wigston couldn't get superfast broadband (30 Mbit/s), 60% lower than the typical town's 0.5%. Of those, 6 couldn't even get 10 Mbit/s, the legal minimum. Gigabit broadband reached 98.2% of premises, about the same as the typical town's 93.8%.
| Broadband | Premises | Share | Typical town |
|---|---|---|---|
| Can't get 10 Mbit/s | 6 | less than 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Can't get 30 Mbit/s | 33 | 0.2% | 0.5% |
| Gigabit available | 16,369 | 98.2% | 93.8% |
| Town | Distance | % that can't get 30 Mbit/s |
|---|---|---|
| Blaby and Whetstone | 4.2 km | 1.3 |
| Kibworth Beauchamp and Kibworth Harcourt | 9.2 km | 0.7 |
| Leicester Forest East and Kirby Muxloe | 8.4 km | 0.5 |
| Broughton Astley | 9.5 km | 0.5 |
| Countesthorpe | 4.3 km | 0.4 |
| Enderby and Narborough | 6.2 km | 0.3 |
| Leicester | 5.5 km | 0.2 |
| Oadby | 3.1 km | 0.2 |
| Birstall | 10.8 km | 0.2 |
| Wigston | – | 0.2 |
| Thurmaston | 10.4 km | 0.2 |
| The typical town | – | 0.5 |