PR6
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Cowling, Chorley and Clayton Green, in 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 PR6 postcode. How census figures are added up
Radon Affected Area by postcode district
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 97% of people in PR6 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How PR6 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is PR6 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in PR6 at a rate of 73.1 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 88.1 per 1,000 people across the PR postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 272 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in PR6.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,062), anti-social behaviour (598) and other crime (422).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in PR6 was 71.5 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 PR6, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so PR6 has no single figure. Of its 22 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 2: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 4 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 PR6
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chorley 002B | 1,290 | 33.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 79.8% |
| Chorley 002C | 1,349 | 32.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.2% |
| Chorley 002D | 1,335 | 47.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 88.5% |
| Chorley 003A | 1,218 | 27.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.5% |
| Chorley 003B | 1,305 | 48.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 100.0% |
| Chorley 003C | 1,373 | 182.6 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.0% |
| Chorley 004A | 1,690 | 39.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.7% |
| Chorley 004C | 1,345 | 35.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.5% |
| Chorley 004D | 2,691 | 40.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 89.0% |
| Chorley 004E | 1,845 | 64.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 95.4% |
| Chorley 006B | 1,459 | 84.4 per 1,000 | 4 | 98.9% |
| Chorley 006C | 1,406 | 159.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 99.9% |
| Chorley 006E | 1,315 | 137.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.9% |
| Chorley 006G | 2,291 | 87.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 96.0% |
| Chorley 009A | 1,737 | 158.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.1% |
| Chorley 009B | 2,438 | 104.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 95.3% |
| Chorley 009C | 1,618 | 84.2 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.6% |
| Chorley 009D | 1,450 | 56.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 100.0% |
| Chorley 014A | 2,714 | 64.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 94.4% |
| Chorley 014B | 1,717 | 41.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.6% |
| Chorley 014D | 1,744 | 36.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 91.1% |
| Chorley 014E | 2,122 | 65.4 per 1,000 | 8 | 72.0% |
MPs for PR6
- Sir Lindsay HoyleSpeakerMP for Chorley100% of PR6’s postcodes
- Andy MacNaeLabourMP for Rossendale and Darwen0.2% of PR6’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 PR65
Postcode sectors in PR65
Council1
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Postcode districts next to PR67
Nearest rail stations2
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PR6 in brief
PR6 is a postcode district covering Cowling, Chorley and Clayton Green, in Chorley.
About 37,816 people lived in PR6 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £215,000 in 2025 across 523 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 73.1 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in PR6 was £215,000 in 2025.
PR6 had 36,956 usual residents at the census.
About 97% of people in PR6 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In PR6, 91.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.