PR5 crime rate and statistics

The PR5 postcode district, in the PR (Preston) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 5,468 street-crime records for PR5 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 0.8% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 134.5 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

5,468

Latest month (August 2026)

440

Year-on-year

+0.8%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 481
October 2025 457
November 2025 510
December 2025 469
January 2026 402
February 2026 368
March 2026 413
April 2026 475
May 2026 466
June 2026 469
July 2026 518
August 2026 440

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.

PR5

134.5

Lancashire Constabulary

110.7

5,468 records and 40,656 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 PR5 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 PR5

Published street-crime records in PR5, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of PR5: the south-west 1,525, the west 982, the south 785, the south-east 88, the north-west 75, the east 72, the centre 15, the north-east 14.

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 PR5's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and PR5'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 PR5 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore PR5 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for PR5 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 5,115
2022 5,449
2023 5,212
2024 5,385
2025 5,587
2026 (part year) 3,551

Is PR5 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for PR5 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in PR5 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

PR5's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Lancashire Constabulary (100.0%), Cumbria Constabulary (0.0%) and Devon and Cornwall Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in PR5

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

Sector Street-crime records
PR5 0 297
PR5 1 672
PR5 2 592
PR5 3 554
PR5 4 635
PR5 5 554
PR5 6 1,579
PR5 7 57
PR5 8 528

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 40,656 Census 2021 residents of PR5.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 14.6% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 26.1% 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 PR5 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) £193,000 (340)
2025 £201,000 (717)
2024 £183,000 (615)
2023 £185,000 (566)
2022 £188,000 (795)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £302,500 (82) £187,000 (153) £149,113 (88) £107,000 (17)
2025 £310,000 (211) £185,000 (331) £150,000 (149) £110,000 (26)
2024 £280,000 (174) £175,000 (272) £143,000 (147) £111,725 (22)
2023 £280,250 (148) £175,000 (261) £137,000 (133) £109,500 (24)
2022 £280,000 (200) £185,000 (391) £130,000 (171) £105,000 (33)

Schools and colleges

24 open establishments with a postcode in PR5, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 24 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Bamber Bridge St Aidan's Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Brindle Gregson Lane Primary School Primary Academy converter
Clayton Brook Primary School Primary Community school
Coupe Green Primary School Primary Community school
Cuerden Church School, Bamber Bridge Primary Voluntary aided school
Higher Walton Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Lostock Hall Community Primary School Primary Foundation school
Our Lady and St Gerard's Roman Catholic Primary School, Lostock Hall Primary Voluntary aided school
Samlesbury Church of England School Primary Voluntary aided school
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Brindle Primary Voluntary aided school
St Mary's and St Benedict's Roman Catholic Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
St Patrick's Roman Catholic Primary School, Walton-le-Dale Primary Voluntary aided school
Walton-le-Dale Community Primary School Primary Community school
Walton-le-Dale, St Leonard's Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Westwood Primary School Primary Community school
Brownedge St Mary's Catholic High School Secondary Voluntary aided school
Lostock Hall Academy Secondary Academy converter
Walton-Le-Dale High School Secondary Academy sponsor led
Applebee Wood School – Academy special sponsor led
Bridgeway School – Other independent special school
Cambian Red Rose School – Other independent special school
Progress School – Other independent special school
The Coppice School – Community special school
The Ribble Autism School – 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
High48
Medium42
Low42
Very low1

Broadband

Share of the 980 postcodes in PR5 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
Gigabit78.6%91.5%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)94.2%99.0%

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CrimeMapsUK. PR5 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/pr5/

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