PR9
Postcode districtPostcode district covering Southport, High Park and Crossens, in Sefton and West Lancashire.
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 PR9 postcode. How census figures are added up
Radon Affected Area by postcode district
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in PR9 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How PR9 compares
Each dot is a postcode district. The black line marks the middle one.
Is PR9 safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in PR9 at a rate of 69.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 88.1 per 1,000 people across the PR postcode area.
In August 2026 alone, 223 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in PR9.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,417), other crime (582) and anti-social behaviour (328).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in PR9 was 74.3 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 PR9, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so PR9 has no single figure. Of its 30 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 2: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 3: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 4: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 7: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 1 neighbourhood
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in PR9
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sefton 001A | 1,389 | 36.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 98.8% |
| Sefton 001B | 1,414 | 54.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 001C | 1,160 | 15.9 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.8% |
| Sefton 001D | 1,553 | 63.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.4% |
| Sefton 001E | 1,165 | 29.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 002A | 1,372 | 53.5 per 1,000 | 8 | 91.1% |
| Sefton 002B | 1,370 | 32.8 per 1,000 | 8 | 100.0% |
| Sefton 002C | 1,357 | 78.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 86.9% |
| Sefton 002D | 1,361 | 28.8 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.1% |
| Sefton 002E | 1,388 | 13.6 per 1,000 | 7 | 93.7% |
| Sefton 003A | 1,742 | 87.0 per 1,000 | 3 | 60.4% |
| Sefton 003B | 1,445 | 77.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 54.5% |
| Sefton 003C | 1,500 | 20.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 37.8% |
| Sefton 003D | 1,545 | 58.7 per 1,000 | 5 | 47.9% |
| Sefton 003E | 1,293 | 19.9 per 1,000 | 9 | 98.7% |
| Sefton 004A | 1,830 | 102.6 per 1,000 | 3 | 78.1% |
| Sefton 004B | 1,697 | 97.9 per 1,000 | 1 | 68.6% |
| Sefton 004D | 1,491 | 163.9 per 1,000 | 3 | 90.5% |
| Sefton 004F | 1,182 | 182.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 76.1% |
| Sefton 004G | 1,171 | 242.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 77.9% |
| Sefton 005A | 1,382 | 91.6 per 1,000 | 1 | 92.9% |
| Sefton 005B | 1,644 | 37.1 per 1,000 | 4 | 99.3% |
| Sefton 005C | 1,494 | 43.8 per 1,000 | 4 | 95.6% |
| Sefton 005D | 1,430 | 38.1 per 1,000 | 6 | 96.4% |
| Sefton 005E | 1,500 | 40.3 per 1,000 | 6 | 93.3% |
| Sefton 006A | 1,527 | 49.0 per 1,000 | 4 | 71.9% |
| Sefton 006E | 1,326 | 64.3 per 1,000 | 7 | 96.9% |
| West Lancashire 002A | 1,991 | 34.9 per 1,000 | 6 | 89.7% |
| West Lancashire 002B | 1,430 | 50.5 per 1,000 | 3 | 80.9% |
| West Lancashire 002C | 1,261 | 46.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 95.9% |
MPs for PR9
- Patrick HurleyLabourMP for Southport99% of PR9’s postcodes
- Ashley DaltonLabourMP for West Lancashire0.9% of PR9’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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Councils PR9 covers2
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Postcode districts next to PR93
Nearest rail stations4
More in the PR postcode area2
PR9 in brief
PR9 is a postcode district covering Southport, High Park and Crossens, in Sefton and West Lancashire.
About 44,402 people lived in PR9 in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £210,000 in 2025 across 676 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 69.2 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in PR9 was £210,000 in 2025.
PR9 had 43,564 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in PR9 live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In PR9, 83.6% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.