Property market
The five-year median is £875,250 from 2 recorded sales in PR1 3BU. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Preston is £187,709 in June 2026, up 12.4% year on year.
PR1 3BU
City Centre · Preston · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR1 3BU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR1
- Postcode sector
- PR1 3
- Latitude
- 53.758350
- Longitude
- -2.697077
- British National Grid easting
- 354,139
- British National Grid northing
- 429,334
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Preston · E07000123
- Electoral ward
- City Centre · E05012196
- Parish or community
- E43000225
- Westminster constituency
- Preston · E14001433
- Output area
- E00171993
- Lower layer super output area
- Preston 017G · E01033224
- Middle layer super output area
- Preston 017 · E02005269
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore PR1
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 140 - 140a, Church Street, Preston, PR1 3BU | 25 October 2024 | £875,250 |
| 140 - 140a, Church Street, Preston, PR1 3BU | 25 October 2024 | £875,250 |
| 135, Church Street, Preston, PR1 3BU | 15 March 2016 | £234,964 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 103
- Primary
- 65
- Secondary
- 15
- 99 m
Stoneygate Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 327 m
Imam Muhammad Zakariya School
Other independent school
- 457 m
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School, Preston
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8,147
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,911
- Anti social behaviour 1,315
- Shoplifting 721
- Public order 586
- Criminal damage and arson 570
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- PR1 3 residents
- 3,539
0 female, 2 male
Age bands in PR1 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 13.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 22.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 34.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 20.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.8%
465 residents
802 residents
1,211 residents
713 residents
308 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PR1 3 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 12.5%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
22
within 5 km
AVENHAM SURGERY
AVENHAM LANE, PRESTON, PR1 3RG
ODS code P81770
256 m
FISHERGATE HILL SURGERY
50 FISHERGATE HILL, PRESTON, PR1 8DN
ODS code P81169
1.2 km
THE NEW HALL LANE PRACTICE
GEOFFREY STREET, PRESTON, PR1 5NE
ODS code P81071
1.3 km
DR ALI GUTTRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
DEEPDALE ROAD, PRESTON, PR1 6LL
ODS code P81685
1.3 km
GUTTERIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
GUTTRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE, DEEPDALE ROAD, PRESTON, PR1 6LL
ODS code P81647
1.3 km
ISSA MEDICAL CENTRE - PATEL
73 ST GREGORY ROAD, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 6YA
ODS code P81196
1.5 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
194 VICTORIA ROAD, WALTON-LE-DALE, PRESTON, PR5 4AY
ODS code P81185
2.0 km
THE HEALTHCARE CENTRE
FLINTOFF WAY, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 5AF
ODS code P81067
2.1 km
ST FILLAN'S MEDICAL CTRE
2 LIVERPOOL ROAD, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 0AD
ODS code P81018
2.3 km
LANE ENDS SURGERY
200 TULKETH BROW, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 2JJ
ODS code P81119
2.4 km
ST. MARY'S HEALTH CENTRE
COP LANE, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 0SR
ODS code P81213
2.5 km
BRIARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
514 BLACKPOOL ROAD, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, ASHTON BANK, PRESTON, PR2 1HY
ODS code P81748
2.9 km
DR A HUSSAIN
200 MILLER ROAD, RIBBLETON, PRESTON, PR2 6NH
ODS code P81735
3.0 km
KINGSFOLD MEDICAL CENTRE
WOODCROFT CLOSE, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 9BX
ODS code P81181
3.1 km
THE PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
COTTAM LANE, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 1JR
ODS code P81664
3.1 km
RIBBLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
243 RIBBLETON AVENUE, RIBBLETON, PRESTON, PR2 6RD
ODS code P81184
3.1 km
LYTHAM ROAD SURGERY
1ST FLOOR FATIMA MEDICAL CENTRE, 228 GARSTANG ROAD, FULWOOD, PRESTON, PR2 9QB
ODS code P81015
3.3 km
LOSTOCK HALL MEDICAL CTR.
DARDSLEY HOUSE, BROWNEDGE ROAD, PRESTON, PR5 5AB
ODS code P81179
3.5 km
ROSLEA SURGERY
51 STATION ROAD, BAMBER BRIDGE, PRESTON, PR5 6PE
ODS code P81083
3.6 km
THE RYAN MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARYS ROAD, BAMBER BRIDGE, PRESTON, PR5 6JD
ODS code P81082
3.8 km
Showing 20 of 22 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Lancaster Road
BCT · Preston City Centre
- 0.0 miles
Lava Ignite
BCT · Preston City Centre
- 0.0 miles
Church Street
BCT · Preston City Centre
- 0.0 miles
Lancaster Road
BCT · Preston City Centre
- 0.0 miles
Fishergate Taxi Rank
TXR · Preston City Centre
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Preston 017G, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
1 of 10
Overall England rank
1,901 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 1 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 1 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
103 open schools are in scope, including 65 primary and 15 secondary schools. Stoneygate Nursery School is the nearest published school at 99 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
8,147 published events cover 12 months, averaging 678.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,911 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.