PR9 crime rate and statistics

The PR9 postcode district, in the PR (Preston) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 3,420 street-crime records for PR9 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 8.4% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 77.9 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 107.1 for Merseyside Police. 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

3,420

Latest month (August 2026)

258

Year-on-year

-8.4%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 287
October 2025 273
November 2025 262
December 2025 266
January 2026 234
February 2026 281
March 2026 273
April 2026 331
May 2026 310
June 2026 317
July 2026 328
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.

PR9

77.9

Merseyside Police

107.1

3,420 records and 43,921 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 PR9 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 PR9

Published street-crime records in PR9, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of PR9: the west 1,827, the south-west 1,164, the north-west 203, the north 200, the north-east 186, the east 36.

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 PR9's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and PR9'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 PR9 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore PR9 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for PR9 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 4,055
2022 4,068
2023 3,816
2024 3,781
2025 3,540
2026 (part year) 2,332

Is PR9 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for PR9 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in PR9 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

PR9's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Merseyside Police (93.0%), Lancashire Constabulary (6.8%), Staffordshire Police (0.1%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.1%), Cumbria Constabulary (0.0%) and Leicestershire Police (0.0%).

Postcode sectors in PR9

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

Sector Street-crime records
PR9 0 1,594
PR9 7 609
PR9 8 479
PR9 9 738

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 43,921 Census 2021 residents of PR9.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 16.9% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 3.0% 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 PR9 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) £204,000 (365)
2025 £210,000 (683)
2024 £205,000 (741)
2023 £199,500 (743)
2022 £198,000 (942)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £310,000 (67) £225,000 (171) £165,000 (25) £112,000 (102)
2025 £330,500 (122) £215,000 (383) £169,500 (48) £122,000 (130)
2024 £329,995 (155) £212,000 (361) £170,000 (53) £118,975 (172)
2023 £328,750 (140) £200,000 (385) £169,500 (46) £119,975 (172)
2022 £335,000 (159) £208,748 (448) £164,000 (46) £124,999 (289)

Schools and colleges

17 open establishments with a postcode in PR9, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 17 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Southport Education Group 16 plus Further education
Crossens Nursery School Nursery Local authority nursery school
Banks Methodist School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Banks St Stephen's CofE School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Bishop David Sheppard Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Churchtown Primary School Primary Academy converter
Holy Family Catholic Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Holy Trinity Church of England Primary School, Southport Primary Academy converter
Larkfield Primary School Primary Community school
Marshside Primary School Primary Community school
Norwood Primary School Primary Community school
St John's Church of England Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
St Patrick's Catholic Primary School Primary Voluntary aided school
Stanley High School Secondary Academy sponsor led
Arden College – Special post 16 institution
Peterhouse School – Non-maintained special school
Presfield High School and Specialist College – Community 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
Medium9
Low20
Very low357

Broadband

Share of the 928 postcodes in PR9 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
Gigabit61.0%87.7%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)87.6%98.6%

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CrimeMapsUK. PR9 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/pr9/

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