PR5
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Bamber Bridge, Tardy Gate and Walton-le-Dale, in South Ribble and Chorley.
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 PR5 postcode. How census figures are added up
Radon Affected Area by postcode district
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 20% of people in PR5 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How PR5 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is PR5 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in PR5 at a rate of 85.9 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 88.1 per 1,000 people across the PR postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 316 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in PR5.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,393), anti-social behaviour (762) and other crime (546).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in PR5 was 94.0 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 PR5, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so PR5 has no single figure. Of its 28 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 5 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in PR5
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chorley 001A | 1,178 | 59.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 97.8% |
| Chorley 001B | 1,220 | 111.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.5% |
| Chorley 001C | 1,382 | 153.4 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.0% |
| Chorley 001D | 1,549 | 150.8 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| Chorley 002A | 1,995 | 35.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 52.0% |
| South Ribble 002A | 1,674 | 44.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.4% |
| South Ribble 002B | 1,492 | 36.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.5% |
| South Ribble 002C | 1,187 | 133.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 62.2% |
| South Ribble 002D | 1,606 | 45.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 90.6% |
| South Ribble 004A | 2,187 | 40.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.7% |
| South Ribble 004B | 1,344 | 155.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 95.0% |
| South Ribble 004C | 1,366 | 21.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| South Ribble 004D | 1,209 | 50.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| South Ribble 004E | 1,021 | 75.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 92.5% |
| South Ribble 007A | 1,184 | 18.7 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| South Ribble 007B | 1,233 | 217.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 93.6% |
| South Ribble 007C | 1,130 | 89.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.7% |
| South Ribble 007D | 1,910 | 133.1 per 1,000 | 3 | 98.7% |
| South Ribble 008A | 1,406 | 215.8 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| South Ribble 008B | 2,111 | 117.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 87.7% |
| South Ribble 008C | 1,585 | 69.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 90.0% |
| South Ribble 008D | 1,951 | 132.4 per 1,000 | 5 | 96.9% |
| South Ribble 009A | 1,028 | 110.2 per 1,000 | 2 | 94.5% |
| South Ribble 009B | 1,276 | 67.4 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.4% |
| South Ribble 009C | 1,252 | 87.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| South Ribble 009D | 1,949 | 17.6 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| South Ribble 009E | 2,026 | 41.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| South Ribble 012C | 1,554 | 70.6 per 1,000 | 6 | 78.6% |
MPs for PR5
- Maya EllisLabourMP for Ribble Valley80% of PR5’s postcodes
- Sir Lindsay HoyleSpeakerMP for Chorley12% of PR5’s postcodes
- Mr Paul FosterLabourMP for South Ribble7.4% of PR5’s postcodes
- Sir Mark HendrickLabour (Co-op)MP for Preston0.1% of PR5’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.
Middle areas in PR56
Postcode sectors in PR56
Councils PR5 covers2
Towns in PR51
Postcode districts next to PR56
Nearest rail stations4
More in the PR postcode area2
PR5 in brief
PR5 is a postcode district covering Bamber Bridge, Tardy Gate and Walton-le-Dale, in South Ribble and Chorley.
About 42,535 people lived in PR5 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £200,000 in 2025 across 704 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 85.9 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in PR5 was £200,000 in 2025.
PR5 had 40,876 usual residents at the census.
About 20% of people in PR5 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In PR5, 94.5% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.