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PR4 crime rate and statistics
The PR4 postcode district, in the PR (Preston) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 3,679 street-crime records for PR4 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 7.1% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 56.2 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
3,679
Latest month (August 2026)
301
Year-on-year
-7.1%
Month-by-month totals
3640
319
Sep
364
Oct
308
Nov
301
Dec
308
Jan
275
Feb
297
Mar
259
Apr
295
May
343
Jun
309
Jul
301
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
319
October 2025
364
November 2025
308
December 2025
301
January 2026
308
February 2026
275
March 2026
297
April 2026
259
May 2026
295
June 2026
343
July 2026
309
August 2026
301
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.
PR4
56.2
Lancashire Constabulary
110.7
3,679 records and 65,411 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 PR4 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 offences41.7%
1,533 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour24.9%
915 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson9.0%
332 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft5.6%
207 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Public order4.7%
174 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Other crime3.4%
125 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Vehicle crime2.9%
106 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Burglary2.5%
92 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in PR4
Records by part of PR4: the east 1,963, the north-east 1,693, the north-west 1,243, the west 511, the south 456, the south-east 320, the north 173, the south-west 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 PR4's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and PR4'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 PR4 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore PR4 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for PR4 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
3,637
2022
3,642
2023
3,668
2024
3,912
2025
4,018
2026 (part year)
2,387
Is PR4 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for PR4 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 307 records a month. The busiest month was October 2025, with 364.
Records here changed by -7.1% on the 12 months before, against -0.1% across the Lancashire Constabulary area, the main force here with 99.9% of PR4's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 41.7% 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 PR4 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 65,411 Census 2021 residents of PR4.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 41.9% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
0%2
2%3
11%4
2%5
7%6
14%7
21%8
24%9
18%10
Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.
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 PR4 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)
£250,750 (592)
2025
£260,000 (1,326)
2024
£265,000 (1,265)
2023
£262,950 (1,219)
2022
£241,495 (1,650)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£342,750 (250)
£222,000 (232)
£162,000 (95)
£114,500 (15)
2025
£360,000 (644)
£219,450 (479)
£164,000 (176)
£110,000 (27)
2024
£341,000 (648)
£215,000 (423)
£165,000 (177)
£115,000 (17)
2023
£335,000 (626)
£215,000 (420)
£157,500 (143)
£107,750 (30)
2022
£319,995 (781)
£202,500 (563)
£153,750 (272)
£109,500 (34)
Schools and colleges
39 open establishments with a postcode in PR4, 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
47
Medium
32
Low
35
Very low
51
Broadband
Share of the 1,766 postcodes in PR4 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
57.4%
72.3%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
85.9%
97.0%
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