PR7
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Chorley Moor and Buckshaw Village, 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 PR7 postcode. How census figures are added up
Radon Affected Area by postcode district
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 64% of people in PR7 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How PR7 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is PR7 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in PR7 at a rate of 82.7 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 88.1 per 1,000 people across the PR postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 418 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in PR7.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (2,285), anti-social behaviour (1,140) and other crime (786).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in PR7 was 87.0 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 PR7, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so PR7 has no single figure. Of its 38 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 6: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 7 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 5 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 9 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 4 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in PR7
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chorley 004F | 1,276 | 37.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 95.7% |
| Chorley 005A | 1,210 | 41.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.4% |
| Chorley 005B | 2,194 | 34.8 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.3% |
| Chorley 005C | 1,403 | 54.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 92.6% |
| Chorley 005D | 1,348 | 50.0 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.5% |
| Chorley 005E | 1,362 | 49.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 93.4% |
| Chorley 005F | 1,198 | 15.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 97.1% |
| Chorley 006F | 1,513 | 161.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.3% |
| Chorley 008B | 1,901 | 64.2 per 1,000 | 8 | 97.1% |
| Chorley 008C | 1,681 | 65.7 per 1,000 | 9 | 96.7% |
| Chorley 008D | 1,350 | 64.3 per 1,000 | 8 | 98.3% |
| Chorley 008E | 1,694 | 33.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 80.9% |
| Chorley 008F | 1,627 | 61.5 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.1% |
| Chorley 008G | 1,696 | 85.4 per 1,000 | 10 | 91.2% |
| Chorley 008H | 1,379 | 80.4 per 1,000 | 2 | 99.5% |
| Chorley 010A | 1,656 | 163.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 86.9% |
| Chorley 010B | 2,111 | 41.1 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Chorley 010C | 2,328 | 50.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 89.6% |
| Chorley 010D | 1,693 | 621.1 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.7% |
| Chorley 010E | 1,890 | 107.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 96.5% |
| Chorley 011A | 1,287 | 52.4 per 1,000 | 7 | 74.5% |
| Chorley 011B | 1,436 | 124.7 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.8% |
| Chorley 011C | 1,509 | 32.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
| Chorley 011D | 1,429 | 21.6 per 1,000 | 9 | 88.0% |
| Chorley 011E | 1,901 | 48.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.2% |
| Chorley 012A | 1,580 | 154.6 per 1,000 | 2 | 98.8% |
| Chorley 012B | 2,377 | 74.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 96.6% |
| Chorley 012C | 2,198 | 37.8 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.5% |
| Chorley 012E | 1,723 | 48.0 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.7% |
| Chorley 012F | 1,257 | 103.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Chorley 013A | 1,417 | 38.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.3% |
| Chorley 013B | 2,000 | 99.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 94.9% |
| Chorley 013C | 1,786 | 51.9 per 1,000 | 4 | 89.5% |
| Chorley 013D | 1,582 | 55.2 per 1,000 | 6 | 88.3% |
| Chorley 013E | 1,516 | 24.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.4% |
| Chorley 014C | 1,727 | 116.3 per 1,000 | 4 | 94.7% |
| South Ribble 016G | 1,482 | 80.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 93.9% |
| South Ribble 016H | 1,443 | 35.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.1% |
MPs for PR7
- Sir Lindsay HoyleSpeakerMP for Chorley80% of PR7’s postcodes
- Mr Paul FosterLabourMP for South Ribble19% of PR7’s postcodes
- Ashley DaltonLabourMP for West Lancashire0.2% of PR7’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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PR7 in brief
PR7 is a postcode district covering Chorley Moor and Buckshaw Village, in Chorley.
About 65,251 people lived in PR7 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £220,000 in 2025 across 1,110 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 82.7 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in PR7 was £220,000 in 2025.
PR7 had 63,509 usual residents at the census.
About 64% of people in PR7 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In PR7, 94.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.