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.

Last 12 published months

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

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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.

Where records cluster in PR6

Published street-crime records in PR6, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

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.

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

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Police forces

PR6's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Lancashire Constabulary (99.8%), Avon and Somerset Police (0.1%), Cumbria Constabulary (0.0%), Dyfed-Powys Police (0.0%) and Suffolk Constabulary (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in PR6

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

Sector Street-crime records
PR6 0 1,052
PR6 6 3
PR6 7 913
PR6 8 269
PR6 9 458

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

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%.

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.

YearAll 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 DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
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.

Show the 22 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Highfield Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
Abbey Village Primary School Primary Community school
Adlington St Paul's Church of England Primary School Primary Academy sponsor led
Anderton Primary School Primary Community school
Brindle St James' Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Brinscall St John's CofE and Methodist Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Chorley St James' Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Clayton-le-Woods Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Clayton-le-Woods Manor Road Primary School Primary Community school
Highfield Community Primary School Primary Academy converter
Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School, Chorley Primary Voluntary aided school
St Bede's Catholic Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
St Chad's Catholic Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Anderton Primary Voluntary aided school
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Chorley Primary Voluntary aided school
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Withnell Primary Voluntary aided school
St Peter's CofE Primary School Chorley Primary Voluntary aided school
Whittle-le-Woods Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Withnell Fold Primary School Primary Community school
Mayfield House School – Other independent special school
Meadow View Learning Centre – Other independent special school
Waterloo Lodge – 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
High17
Medium6
Low32
Very low0

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.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit69.2%85.5%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)88.8%95.4%

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CrimeMapsUK. PR6 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/pr6/

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