PR2
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Preston and Fulwood, in Preston.
Approximate outline worked out by Open Index from the ONS Postcode Directory: each census output area belongs to the district that holds most of its postcodes. People, homes, recorded crime and broadband add up those output areas. House sales count every sale with an PR2 postcode. How census figures are added up
Radon Affected Area by postcode district
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 2% of people in PR2 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How PR2 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is PR2 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in PR2 at a rate of 99.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 88.1 per 1,000 people across the PR postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 712 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in PR2.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (3,338), anti-social behaviour (1,610) and other crime (1,396).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in PR2 was 110.9 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in PR2, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so PR2 has no single figure. Of its 51 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 10 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in PR2
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preston 001A | 2,801 | 46.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.1% |
| Preston 002A | 1,490 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.1% |
| Preston 003A | 1,442 | 66.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.4% |
| Preston 003B | 1,485 | 63.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Preston 003C | 2,840 | 37.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |
| Preston 003D | 1,504 | 88.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Preston 003E | 1,092 | 56.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Preston 003F | 1,187 | 37.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Preston 004A | 1,772 | 82.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.6% |
| Preston 004B | 1,146 | 23.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.4% |
| Preston 004C | 1,478 | 45.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 94.8% |
| Preston 004D | 1,145 | 319.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.3% |
| Preston 004E | 1,318 | 75.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 82.9% |
| Preston 005A | 1,543 | 147.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.5% |
| Preston 005B | 1,407 | 84.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Preston 005C | 1,426 | 138.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.8% |
| Preston 005D | 1,398 | 96.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.5% |
| Preston 006A | 1,405 | 36.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.1% |
| Preston 006B | 1,645 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.8% |
| Preston 006C | 1,696 | 41.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Preston 006D | 2,142 | 95.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.5% |
| Preston 006E | 1,477 | 30.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.6% |
| Preston 007A | 1,546 | 251.3 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.1% |
| Preston 007C | 1,545 | 113.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.6% |
| Preston 007D | 1,481 | 152.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 100.0% |
| Preston 007F | 1,456 | 75.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.7% |
| Preston 008A | 1,277 | 101.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Preston 008B | 1,584 | 45.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Preston 008C | 1,449 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Preston 008D | 1,145 | 38.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 100.0% |
| Preston 008E | 1,222 | 45.6 per 1,000 | 4 | 100.0% |
| Preston 009A | 1,575 | 126.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.7% |
| Preston 009B | 1,761 | 120.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 93.2% |
| Preston 009C | 1,689 | 91.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 77.2% |
| Preston 009D | 1,420 | 89.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Preston 009E | 1,871 | 150.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 89.5% |
| Preston 009F | 1,956 | 142.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 75.2% |
| Preston 010A | 1,647 | 61.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 97.7% |
| Preston 010D | 1,744 | 311.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 80.6% |
| Preston 012A | 1,710 | 85.2 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.7% |
| Preston 012B | 1,693 | 69.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 92.0% |
| Preston 012C | 1,575 | 84.3 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.8% |
| Preston 012D | 1,221 | 153.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Preston 012E | 1,594 | 79.7 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.1% |
| Preston 013A | 1,399 | 83.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
| Preston 013B | 1,533 | 103.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Preston 013C | 1,395 | 66.9 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.3% |
| Preston 013D | 1,355 | 80.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
| Preston 013E | 1,810 | 136.5 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Preston 013F | 1,792 | 102.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Preston 013G | 1,523 | 91.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 100.0% |
MPs for PR2
- Sir Mark HendrickLabour (Co-op)MP for Preston74% of PR2’s postcodes
- Maya EllisLabourMP for Ribble Valley26% of PR2’s postcodes
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
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PR2 in brief
PR2 is a postcode district covering Preston and Fulwood, in Preston.
About 85,496 people lived in PR2 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £193,750 in 2025 across 1,222 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 99.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in PR2 was £193,750 in 2025.
PR2 had 80,289 usual residents at the census.
About 2% of people in PR2 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In PR2, 95.3% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.