Public access to policing data for England and Wales.
Crime in PR9 0
The PR9 0 postcode sector, in the PR (Preston) postcode area, with most records published by Merseyside Police.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 1,594 street-crime records for PR9 0 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 13.5% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 211.7 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.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
1,594
Share of PR9
46.6%
Year-on-year
-13.5%
PR9 0 holds 46.6% of the 3,420 records assigned to PR9 in the same window.
Month-by-month totals
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
147
October 2025
129
November 2025
120
December 2025
116
January 2026
106
February 2026
131
March 2026
141
April 2026
141
May 2026
154
June 2026
144
July 2026
146
August 2026
119
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 0
211.7
Merseyside Police
107.1
1,594 records and 7,529 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.
Category mix compared
Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: Merseyside Police.
Category
PR9 0
PR9
Force
Violence and sexual offences
36.8%
43.1%
39.6%
Anti-social behaviour
12.4%
11.1%
10.5%
Public order
11.6%
10.5%
9.2%
Shoplifting
11.5%
7.7%
7.4%
Drugs
9.9%
6.7%
8.6%
Criminal damage and arson
6.0%
6.8%
8.0%
Other theft
4.6%
5.4%
5.4%
Robbery
1.5%
0.9%
1.0%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for PR9 0 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
1,771
2022
1,944
2023
1,722
2024
1,757
2025
1,719
2026 (part year)
1,082
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 sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Covers 100.0% of the 7,529 Census 2021 residents of PR9 0.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 58.2% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 0.0% in the least deprived 20%.
45%1
13%2
32%3
10%4
0%5
0%6
0%7
0%8
0%9
0%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.
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