Property market
The five-year median is £163,000 from 9 recorded sales in PR1 8JP. 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 8JP
City Centre · Preston · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR1 8JP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR1
- Postcode sector
- PR1 8
- Latitude
- 53.750631
- Longitude
- -2.708930
- British National Grid easting
- 353,349
- British National Grid northing
- 428,483
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
- E00128362
- Lower layer super output area
- Preston 017C · E01025291
- 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
36 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Garage, 212, South Meadow Lane, Preston, PR1 8JP | 12 January 2026 | £12,500 |
| 228, South Meadow Lane, Preston, PR1 8JP | 13 November 2025 | £220,000 |
| 212, South Meadow Lane, Preston, PR1 8JP | 24 October 2025 | £166,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 101
- Primary
- 62
- Secondary
- 16
- 234 m
St Stephen's CofE School
Voluntary controlled school
- 720 m
St Mary Magdalen's Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 840 m
Imam Muhammad Zakariya School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 5,052
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,847
- Anti social behaviour 825
- Shoplifting 472
- Public order 408
- Criminal damage and arson 323
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 66
- Postcode households
- 28
- Residents per household
- 2.4
- PR1 8 residents
- 5,765
35 female, 31 male
Age bands in PR1 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 11.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 31.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 30.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 18.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 8.4%
733 residents
1,999 residents
1,977 residents
1,187 residents
540 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PR1 8 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+
- 96.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 96.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 96.9%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
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
FISHERGATE HILL SURGERY
50 FISHERGATE HILL, PRESTON, PR1 8DN
ODS code P81169
556 m
AVENHAM SURGERY
AVENHAM LANE, PRESTON, PR1 3RG
ODS code P81770
1.2 km
ST FILLAN'S MEDICAL CTRE
2 LIVERPOOL ROAD, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 0AD
ODS code P81018
1.3 km
ST. MARY'S HEALTH CENTRE
COP LANE, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 0SR
ODS code P81213
1.4 km
KINGSFOLD MEDICAL CENTRE
WOODCROFT CLOSE, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 9BX
ODS code P81181
1.9 km
THE NEW HALL LANE PRACTICE
GEOFFREY STREET, PRESTON, PR1 5NE
ODS code P81071
2.4 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
194 VICTORIA ROAD, WALTON-LE-DALE, PRESTON, PR5 4AY
ODS code P81185
2.4 km
DR ALI GUTTRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
DEEPDALE ROAD, PRESTON, PR1 6LL
ODS code P81685
2.4 km
GUTTERIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
GUTTRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE, DEEPDALE ROAD, PRESTON, PR1 6LL
ODS code P81647
2.4 km
LANE ENDS SURGERY
200 TULKETH BROW, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 2JJ
ODS code P81119
2.5 km
ISSA MEDICAL CENTRE - PATEL
73 ST GREGORY ROAD, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 6YA
ODS code P81196
2.6 km
BRIARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
514 BLACKPOOL ROAD, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, ASHTON BANK, PRESTON, PR2 1HY
ODS code P81748
2.8 km
LOSTOCK HALL MEDICAL CTR.
DARDSLEY HOUSE, BROWNEDGE ROAD, PRESTON, PR5 5AB
ODS code P81179
2.9 km
THE PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
COTTAM LANE, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 1JR
ODS code P81664
2.9 km
THE HEALTHCARE CENTRE
FLINTOFF WAY, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 5AF
ODS code P81067
3.1 km
ROSLEA SURGERY
51 STATION ROAD, BAMBER BRIDGE, PRESTON, PR5 6PE
ODS code P81083
3.6 km
NEW LONGTON SURGERY
THE VILLAGE SURGERY, 2 CHURCHSIDE, NEW LONGTON, PRESTON, PR4 4LU
ODS code P81687
3.7 km
THE RYAN MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARYS ROAD, BAMBER BRIDGE, PRESTON, PR5 6JD
ODS code P81082
3.7 km
LYTHAM ROAD SURGERY
1ST FLOOR FATIMA MEDICAL CENTRE, 228 GARSTANG ROAD, FULWOOD, PRESTON, PR2 9QB
ODS code P81015
4.1 km
DR A HUSSAIN
200 MILLER ROAD, RIBBLETON, PRESTON, PR2 6NH
ODS code P81735
4.1 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Meadow Court
BCT · Broadgate
- 0.2 miles
Terminus
BCT · Broadgate
- 0.3 miles
Beech Terrace
BCT · Broadgate
- 0.3 miles
Riverside Road
BCT · Lower Penwortham
- 0.3 miles
Preston Rail Station
RSE · Preston
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Preston 017C, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
8,806 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 30
- 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
101 open schools are in scope, including 62 primary and 16 secondary schools. St Stephen's CofE School is the nearest published school at 234 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
5,052 published events cover 12 months, averaging 421 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,847 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.