Schools
72 open schools are in scope, including 43 primary and 11 secondary schools. Cottam Primary School is the nearest published school at 651 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR2 1SG
Ingol & Cottam · Preston · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Ingol & Cottam
- Local authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston
- Postcode district
- PR2
- Postcode sector
- PR2 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR2 1SG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR2
- Postcode sector
- PR2 1
- Latitude
- 53.777292
- Longitude
- -2.755783
- British National Grid easting
- 350,291
- British National Grid northing
- 431,481
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Preston · E07000123
- Electoral ward
- Ingol & Cottam · E05012201
- Parish or community
- E04005239
- Westminster constituency
- Preston · E14001433
- Output area
- E00128262
- Lower layer super output area
- Preston 010B · E01025272
- Middle layer super output area
- Preston 010 · E02005262
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 PR2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 72
- Primary
- 43
- Secondary
- 11
- 651 m
Cottam Primary School
Community school
- 669 m
Ashton Primary School
Community school
- 745 m
Ingol Community Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,066
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 938
- Anti social behaviour 401
- Criminal damage and arson 197
- Other theft 120
- Public order 91
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PR2 1 residents
- 14,734
Age bands in PR2 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.6%
2,722 residents
1,555 residents
3,956 residents
4,000 residents
2,615 residents
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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 33.3%
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
13
within 5 km
THE PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
COTTAM LANE, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 1JR
ODS code P81664
1.4 km
BRIARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
514 BLACKPOOL ROAD, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, ASHTON BANK, PRESTON, PR2 1HY
ODS code P81748
1.6 km
LANE ENDS SURGERY
200 TULKETH BROW, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 2JJ
ODS code P81119
2.1 km
LYTHAM ROAD SURGERY
1ST FLOOR FATIMA MEDICAL CENTRE, 228 GARSTANG ROAD, FULWOOD, PRESTON, PR2 9QB
ODS code P81015
3.1 km
NORTH PRESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
BROADWAY SURGERY, 2 BROADWAY, FULWOOD, PRESTON, PR2 9TH
ODS code P81103
3.1 km
ST FILLAN'S MEDICAL CTRE
2 LIVERPOOL ROAD, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 0AD
ODS code P81018
3.5 km
FISHERGATE HILL SURGERY
50 FISHERGATE HILL, PRESTON, PR1 8DN
ODS code P81169
3.7 km
ST. MARY'S HEALTH CENTRE
COP LANE, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 0SR
ODS code P81213
3.7 km
DR ALI GUTTRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
DEEPDALE ROAD, PRESTON, PR1 6LL
ODS code P81685
4.3 km
GUTTERIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
GUTTRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE, DEEPDALE ROAD, PRESTON, PR1 6LL
ODS code P81647
4.3 km
THE HEALTHCARE CENTRE
FLINTOFF WAY, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 5AF
ODS code P81067
4.4 km
ISSA MEDICAL CENTRE - PATEL
73 ST GREGORY ROAD, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 6YA
ODS code P81196
4.6 km
AVENHAM SURGERY
AVENHAM LANE, PRESTON, PR1 3RG
ODS code P81770
4.7 km
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
- 0.2 miles
Valentines Meadow
BCT · Cottam
- 0.2 miles
Valentines Meadow
BCT · Cottam
- 0.2 miles
Turning Circle
BCT · Savick
- 0.3 miles
Coleridge Close
BCT · Cottam
- 0.3 miles
Keats Way
BCT · Cottam
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Preston 010B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
23,080 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
Recorded crime
2,066 published events cover 12 months, averaging 172.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 938 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.