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PR1 crime rate and statistics
The PR1 postcode district, in the PR (Preston) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 12,805 street-crime records for PR1 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 6.1% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 174.3 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 110.7 for Lancashire Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
12,805
Latest month (August 2026)
1,158
Year-on-year
+6.1%
Month-by-month totals
1,1850
1.2k
Sep
1.2k
Oct
1.0k
Nov
1.1k
Dec
998
Jan
897
Feb
1.1k
Mar
968
Apr
1.1k
May
1.1k
Jun
1.1k
Jul
1.2k
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
1,185
October 2025
1,157
November 2025
1,030
December 2025
1,079
January 2026
998
February 2026
897
March 2026
1,068
April 2026
968
May 2026
1,100
June 2026
1,077
July 2026
1,088
August 2026
1,158
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
PR1
174.3
Lancashire Constabulary
110.7
12,805 records and 73,471 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of PR1 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences34.2%
4,382 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour23.7%
3,033 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Shoplifting7.4%
943 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Criminal damage and arson7.0%
895 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order6.2%
795 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Other theft5.4%
697 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Drugs3.8%
481 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Vehicle crime3.5%
442 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in PR1
Records by part of PR1: the north-east 6,773, the north 3,769, the south-west 688, the north-west 572, the south 517, the east 429, the west 363, the centre 109, the south-east 20.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 280 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of PR1's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and PR1's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of PR1 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore PR1 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for PR1 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
13,044
2022
13,571
2023
12,331
2024
12,299
2025
12,629
2026 (part year)
8,354
Is PR1 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for PR1 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 1,067 records a month. The busiest month was September 2025, with 1,185.
Records here changed by +6.1% on the 12 months before, against -0.1% across the Lancashire Constabulary area, the main force here with 99.9% of PR1's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 34.2% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in PR1 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
Covers 100.0% of the 73,471 Census 2021 residents of PR1.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 61.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 16.0% in the least deprived 20%.
24%1
37%2
3%3
10%4
1%5
6%6
0%7
2%8
3%9
14%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.
Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.
About PR1 beyond crime
Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the
methodology page.
House prices
Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.
Year
All sales
2026 (part year)
£170,000 (341)
2025
£158,450 (769)
2024
£160,000 (756)
2023
£146,000 (793)
2022
£135,000 (953)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£320,000 (47)
£206,500 (142)
£121,000 (117)
£101,000 (35)
2025
£337,600 (109)
£204,000 (265)
£121,000 (309)
£95,000 (86)
2024
£313,725 (132)
£195,000 (246)
£117,250 (278)
£100,000 (100)
2023
£325,750 (109)
£195,000 (234)
£110,000 (276)
£130,055 (174)
2022
£308,250 (112)
£185,000 (276)
£104,500 (378)
£117,600 (187)
Schools and colleges
41 open establishments with a postcode in PR1, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.
Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.
Highest band
Postcodes
High
10
Medium
108
Low
28
Very low
2
Broadband
Share of the 1,678 postcodes in PR1 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.
Service
Every premises
Some premises
Gigabit
78.2%
94.1%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
96.4%
99.5%
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