City Centre
WardSouth Preston. About 12,986 people (mid-2024 estimate) in 2.8 square kilometres.
Radon Affected Area by ward
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in City Centre live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How City Centre compares
Each dot is a ward. The black line marks the middle one.
Is City Centre safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in City Centre at a rate of 409.4 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 126.2 per 1,000 people across Preston.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 536 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in City Centre.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,635), anti-social behaviour (1,373) and other crime (812).
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.
Figures for the whole of Preston
These figures are published for the whole of Preston, not for each ward, so they describe all of Preston and not City Centre alone. See Preston
City Centre in brief
City Centre had 11,942 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in City Centre live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In City Centre, 80.1% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.
In City Centre, 5.8% of residents aged 16 to 64 were claiming out-of-work benefits in August 2026.