Public access to policing data for England and Wales.
PR7 crime rate and statistics
The PR7 postcode district, in the PR (Preston) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 5,454 street-crime records for PR7 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 3.6% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 85.1 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
5,454
Latest month (August 2026)
424
Year-on-year
+3.6%
Month-by-month totals
5310
465
Sep
442
Oct
460
Nov
476
Dec
453
Jan
359
Feb
428
Mar
473
Apr
469
May
531
Jun
474
Jul
424
Aug
Show as a table
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
465
October 2025
442
November 2025
460
December 2025
476
January 2026
453
February 2026
359
March 2026
428
April 2026
473
May 2026
469
June 2026
531
July 2026
474
August 2026
424
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.
PR7
85.1
Lancashire Constabulary
110.7
5,454 records and 64,094 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 PR7 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 offences42.1%
2,297 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour20.5%
1,117 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson7.5%
408 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Shoplifting6.4%
347 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Public order5.7%
309 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Other theft5.4%
294 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Burglary2.7%
148 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Vehicle crime2.7%
147 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in PR7
Records by part of PR7: the north-east 2,366, the east 2,095, the north 860, the south-east 697, the south 279, the south-west 210, the west 164, the north-west 26, the centre 6.
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 PR7's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and PR7'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 PR7 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore PR7 on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for PR7 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
5,808
2022
5,911
2023
5,657
2024
5,226
2025
5,333
2026 (part year)
3,611
Is PR7 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for PR7 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 454 records a month. The busiest month was June 2026, with 531.
Records here changed by +3.6% on the 12 months before, against -0.1% across the Lancashire Constabulary area, the main force here with 100.0% of PR7's records, over the same months.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 42.1% 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 PR7 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 64,094 Census 2021 residents of PR7.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 12.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 34.3% in the least deprived 20%.
3%1
10%2
11%3
5%4
2%5
5%6
16%7
14%8
24%9
10%10
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 PR7 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)
£225,000 (529)
2025
£221,000 (1,134)
2024
£210,000 (999)
2023
£200,000 (897)
2022
£190,000 (1,112)
Show prices by property type
Year
Detached
Semi
Terraced
Flat
2026
£337,500 (154)
£222,500 (193)
£169,995 (125)
£123,000 (57)
2025
£340,000 (359)
£220,000 (382)
£175,000 (274)
£115,000 (119)
2024
£341,750 (307)
£210,000 (326)
£155,000 (258)
£110,000 (108)
2023
£325,000 (260)
£200,000 (308)
£145,000 (225)
£109,498 (104)
2022
£325,000 (316)
£196,500 (346)
£147,000 (311)
£110,000 (139)
Schools and colleges
34 open establishments with a postcode in PR7, 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
8
Medium
5
Low
16
Very low
1
Broadband
Share of the 1,480 postcodes in PR7 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
75.9%
93.3%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)
92.8%
97.5%
Free monthly alerts
Get one email a month when new police records are published for PR7.
Cite this page
This page updates as new months are published, so a citation needs the months shown and the date you read it. One click selects the whole citation. The CSV holds this page's monthly and category figures for PR7 postcode district, with the same source and months.