Property market
The five-year median is £232,500 from 2 recorded sales in PR2 1YA. 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.
PR2 1YA
Lea & Larches · Preston · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR2 1YA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR2
- Postcode sector
- PR2 1
- Latitude
- 53.766724
- Longitude
- -2.773768
- British National Grid easting
- 349,093
- British National Grid northing
- 430,318
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Preston · E07000123
- Electoral ward
- Lea & Larches · E05012202
- Parish or community
- E04005239
- Westminster constituency
- Preston · E14001433
- Output area
- E00128263
- Lower layer super output area
- Preston 010A · E01025270
- 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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 3, Whitelens Avenue, Lea, Preston, PR2 1YA | 27 March 2025 | £230,000 |
| 2, Whitelens Avenue, Lea, Preston, PR2 1YA | 15 October 2021 | £235,000 |
| 2, Whitelens Avenue, Lea, Preston, PR2 1YA | 25 April 2014 | £166,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 55
- Primary
- 35
- Secondary
- 9
- 429 m
St Bernard's Catholic Primary School, Preston
Academy converter
- 968 m
Lea Community Primary School
Community school
- 1.2 km
Ashton Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 862
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 378
- Anti social behaviour 164
- Criminal damage and arson 88
- Other theft 59
- Public order 43
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 3.7
- PR2 1 residents
- 14,734
6 female, 5 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PR2 1 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
- 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
11
within 5 km
THE PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
COTTAM LANE, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 1JR
ODS code P81664
2.3 km
BRIARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
514 BLACKPOOL ROAD, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, ASHTON BANK, PRESTON, PR2 1HY
ODS code P81748
2.5 km
LANE ENDS SURGERY
200 TULKETH BROW, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 2JJ
ODS code P81119
3.1 km
ST FILLAN'S MEDICAL CTRE
2 LIVERPOOL ROAD, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 0AD
ODS code P81018
3.5 km
ST. MARY'S HEALTH CENTRE
COP LANE, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 0SR
ODS code P81213
3.6 km
FISHERGATE HILL SURGERY
50 FISHERGATE HILL, PRESTON, PR1 8DN
ODS code P81169
4.1 km
LONGTON HEALTH CENTRE
LIVERPOOL ROAD, LONGTON, PRESTON, PR4 5HA
ODS code P81040
4.4 km
LYTHAM ROAD SURGERY
1ST FLOOR FATIMA MEDICAL CENTRE, 228 GARSTANG ROAD, FULWOOD, PRESTON, PR2 9QB
ODS code P81015
4.7 km
BEECHES MEDICAL CENTRE
LIVERPOOL ROAD, LONGTON, PRESTON, PR4 5AB
ODS code P81692
4.7 km
NORTH PRESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
BROADWAY SURGERY, 2 BROADWAY, FULWOOD, PRESTON, PR2 9TH
ODS code P81103
4.7 km
KINGSFOLD MEDICAL CENTRE
WOODCROFT CLOSE, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 9BX
ODS code P81181
4.8 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
- 0.1 miles
Dodney Drive
BCT · Lea
- 0.2 miles
Greenside Avenue
BCT · Lea
- 0.2 miles
Aldfield Avenue
BCT · Lea
- 0.2 miles
Aldfield Avenue
BCT · Lea
- 0.2 miles
The Campions
BCT · Lea
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Preston 010A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,931 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
55 open schools are in scope, including 35 primary and 9 secondary schools. St Bernard's Catholic Primary School, Preston is the nearest published school at 429 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
862 published events cover 12 months, averaging 71.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 378 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.