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PR6 crime rate and statistics
The PR6 postcode district, in the PR (Preston) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 2,695 street-crime records for PR6 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 9.5% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 74.5 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.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
2,695
Latest month (August 2026)
258
Year-on-year
+9.5%
Month-by-month totals
2580
245
Sep
243
Oct
226
Nov
253
Dec
187
Jan
180
Feb
209
Mar
218
Apr
245
May
216
Jun
215
Jul
258
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
245
October 2025
243
November 2025
226
December 2025
253
January 2026
187
February 2026
180
March 2026
209
April 2026
218
May 2026
245
June 2026
216
July 2026
215
August 2026
258
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.
PR6
74.5
Lancashire Constabulary
110.7
2,695 records and 36,194 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 PR6 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 offences39.3%
1,058 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour23.0%
621 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson7.9%
214 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft5.6%
150 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Shoplifting5.3%
143 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Public order4.9%
133 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Vehicle crime3.7%
101 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Burglary2.7%
72 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in PR6
Records by part of PR6: the west 2,474, the north-west 1,405, the south-west 1,124, the south 574, the north-east 110, the north 46, the centre 11.
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 PR6's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and PR6'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 PR6 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore PR6 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for PR6 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
2,742
2022
2,662
2023
2,558
2024
2,502
2025
2,681
2026 (part year)
1,728
Is PR6 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for PR6 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 225 records a month. The busiest month was August 2026, with 258.
Records here changed by +9.5% on the 12 months before, against -0.1% across the Lancashire Constabulary area, the main force here with 99.8% of PR6's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 39.3% 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 PR6 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 36,194 Census 2021 residents of PR6.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 5.7% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 30.0% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
6%2
12%3
15%4
5%5
11%6
0%7
22%8
15%9
15%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 PR6 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)
£240,000 (281)
2025
£215,000 (530)
2024
£220,000 (479)
2023
£209,498 (424)
2022
£200,000 (588)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£380,000 (95)
£220,000 (74)
£183,000 (99)
£142,000 (13)
2025
£345,000 (175)
£205,000 (131)
£172,500 (212)
£120,000 (12)
2024
£342,000 (168)
£200,000 (124)
£155,000 (176)
£110,000 (11)
2023
£370,000 (141)
£195,000 (108)
£150,000 (166)
£95,000 (9)
2022
£350,000 (176)
£192,000 (174)
£148,000 (225)
£110,000 (13)
Schools and colleges
22 open establishments with a postcode in PR6, 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
17
Medium
6
Low
32
Very low
0
Broadband
Share of the 998 postcodes in PR6 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
69.2%
85.5%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
88.8%
95.4%
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