PR3 crime rate and statistics

The PR3 postcode district, in the PR (Preston) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 2,606 street-crime records for PR3 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 3.5% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 61.9 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.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

2,606

Latest month (August 2026)

254

Year-on-year

-3.5%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 259
October 2025 241
November 2025 223
December 2025 226
January 2026 202
February 2026 184
March 2026 206
April 2026 209
May 2026 206
June 2026 192
July 2026 204
August 2026 254

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.

PR3

61.9

Lancashire Constabulary

110.7

2,606 records and 42,068 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 PR3 records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.

Where records cluster in PR3

Published street-crime records in PR3, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of PR3: the south 1,992, the north-west 741, the south-east 573, the east 509, the north 180, the west 175, the south-west 75, the north-east 17, the centre 2.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.1 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of PR3's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and PR3'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 PR3 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore PR3 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for PR3 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 2,199
2022 2,162
2023 2,240
2024 2,481
2025 2,810
2026 (part year) 1,657

Is PR3 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for PR3 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in PR3 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

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Police forces

PR3's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Lancashire Constabulary (99.7%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.1%), Avon and Somerset Police (0.0%), Cumbria Constabulary (0.0%), Devon and Cornwall Police (0.0%), Metropolitan Police (0.0%) and Nottinghamshire Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in PR3

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
PR3 0 460
PR3 1 550
PR3 2 494
PR3 3 601
PR3 5 338
PR3 6 163

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 42,068 Census 2021 residents of PR3.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 31.7% in the least deprived 20%.

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 PR3 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.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £266,948 (364)
2025 £280,000 (887)
2024 £271,000 (913)
2023 £275,995 (848)
2022 £280,000 (1,096)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £390,000 (159) £230,000 (121) £165,134 (70) £132,500 (14)
2025 £364,975 (426) £234,500 (256) £175,000 (171) £135,000 (34)
2024 £348,998 (472) £228,995 (249) £170,000 (152) £152,500 (40)
2023 £350,950 (472) £230,498 (186) £177,750 (160) £177,625 (30)
2022 £349,995 (603) £220,000 (283) £170,000 (151) £157,000 (59)

Schools and colleges

39 open establishments with a postcode in PR3, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 39 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Myerscough College 16 plus Further education
Alston Lane Catholic Primary School, Longridge Primary Academy converter
Barnacre Road Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Barton St Lawrence Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Bilsborrow John Cross Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Brabins Endowed School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Broughton-in-Amounderness Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Calder Vale St John Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Forton Primary School Primary Community school
Garstang Community Primary School Primary Community school
Garstang St Thomas' Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Goosnargh Oliverson's Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Goosnargh Whitechapel Primary School Primary Community school
Kirkland and Catterall St Helen's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Longridge Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Longridge St Wilfrid's Roman Catholic Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Nateby Primary School Primary Community school
Pilling St John's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Ribchester St Wilfrid's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Scorton Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
St. Anne's Copp CofE Primary School, Great Eccleston Primary Voluntary aided school
St Francis Catholic Primary School, Goosnargh Primary Voluntary aided school
St Mary and St Andrew's Catholic Primary School, Barton Newsham Primary Academy converter
St Mary and St Michael's Catholic Primary School, Garstang Primary Academy converter
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Claughton-on-Brock Primary Voluntary aided school
St Mary's Catholic Primary School, Great Eccleston Primary Academy converter
St Mary's Roman Catholic Primary School, Chipping Primary Voluntary aided school
St Michael's-On-Wyre Church of England Primary School & Nursery Primary Voluntary aided school
St William's Catholic Primary School, Pilling Primary Academy converter
Winmarleigh Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Broughton High School Secondary Community school
Garstang Community Academy Secondary Academy converter
Longridge High School Secondary Academy converter
St Cecilia's RC High School Secondary Voluntary aided school
Brook View School – Other independent special school
Calder Lodge School – Other independent special school
Hillside Specialist School and College – Community special school
Springfield House School – Other independent school
TRUST-Education Group Ltd – Other independent special school

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

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 bandPostcodes
High91
Medium62
Low77
Very low62

Broadband

Share of the 1,418 postcodes in PR3 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.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit55.6%80.1%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)79.3%96.8%

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CrimeMapsUK. PR3 postcode district: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/districts/pr3/

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