Schools
84 open schools are in scope, including 52 primary and 13 secondary schools. Cedar Lodge School is the nearest published school at 896 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR2 2GU
Ashton · Preston · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR2 2GU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1998
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR2
- Postcode sector
- PR2 2
- Latitude
- 53.758675
- Longitude
- -2.741661
- British National Grid easting
- 351,200
- British National Grid northing
- 429,400
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Preston · E07000123
- Electoral ward
- Ashton · E05012193
- Parish or community
- E43000225
- Westminster constituency
- Preston · E14001433
- Output area
- E00128368
- Lower layer super output area
- Preston 010D · E01025288
- 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
- 84
- Primary
- 52
- Secondary
- 13
- 896 m
Cedar Lodge School
Other independent special school
- 966 m
Penwortham Primary School
Community school
- 1.0 km
Penwortham Priory Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,867
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 652
- Anti social behaviour 369
- Criminal damage and arson 152
- Shoplifting 146
- Vehicle crime 126
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PR2 2 residents
- 7,935
Age bands in PR2 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.8%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.3%
1,244 residents
920 residents
2,492 residents
1,838 residents
909 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.
GP practices
20
within 5 km straight-line
ST FILLAN'S MEDICAL CTRE
2 LIVERPOOL ROAD, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 0AD
ODS code P81018
1.3 km
BRIARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
514 BLACKPOOL ROAD, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, ASHTON BANK, PRESTON, PR2 1HY
ODS code P81748
1.3 km
THE PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
COTTAM LANE, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 1JR
ODS code P81664
1.3 km
ST. MARY'S HEALTH CENTRE
COP LANE, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 0SR
ODS code P81213
1.5 km
LANE ENDS SURGERY
200 TULKETH BROW, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 2JJ
ODS code P81119
1.6 km
FISHERGATE HILL SURGERY
50 FISHERGATE HILL, PRESTON, PR1 8DN
ODS code P81169
1.9 km
KINGSFOLD MEDICAL CENTRE
WOODCROFT CLOSE, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 9BX
ODS code P81181
2.8 km
AVENHAM SURGERY
AVENHAM LANE, PRESTON, PR1 3RG
ODS code P81770
3.2 km
DR ALI GUTTRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
DEEPDALE ROAD, PRESTON, PR1 6LL
ODS code P81685
3.5 km
GUTTERIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
GUTTRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE, DEEPDALE ROAD, PRESTON, PR1 6LL
ODS code P81647
3.5 km
LYTHAM ROAD SURGERY
1ST FLOOR FATIMA MEDICAL CENTRE, 228 GARSTANG ROAD, FULWOOD, PRESTON, PR2 9QB
ODS code P81015
3.7 km
NEW LONGTON SURGERY
THE VILLAGE SURGERY, 2 CHURCHSIDE, NEW LONGTON, PRESTON, PR4 4LU
ODS code P81687
3.8 km
ISSA MEDICAL CENTRE - PATEL
73 ST GREGORY ROAD, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 6YA
ODS code P81196
3.8 km
THE HEALTHCARE CENTRE
FLINTOFF WAY, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 5AF
ODS code P81067
4.0 km
NORTH PRESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
BROADWAY SURGERY, 2 BROADWAY, FULWOOD, PRESTON, PR2 9TH
ODS code P81103
4.0 km
THE NEW HALL LANE PRACTICE
GEOFFREY STREET, PRESTON, PR1 5NE
ODS code P81071
4.1 km
LONGTON HEALTH CENTRE
LIVERPOOL ROAD, LONGTON, PRESTON, PR4 5HA
ODS code P81040
4.3 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
194 VICTORIA ROAD, WALTON-LE-DALE, PRESTON, PR5 4AY
ODS code P81185
4.7 km
BEECHES MEDICAL CENTRE
LIVERPOOL ROAD, LONGTON, PRESTON, PR4 5AB
ODS code P81692
4.9 km
LOSTOCK HALL MEDICAL CTR.
DARDSLEY HOUSE, BROWNEDGE ROAD, PRESTON, PR5 5AB
ODS code P81179
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Maritime Way
BCT · Riversway
- 0.1 miles
Maritime Way
BCT · Riversway
- 0.2 miles
Business Village
BCT · Riversway
- 0.2 miles
Business Village
BCT · Riversway
- 0.2 miles
Victoria Mansions
BCT · Riversway
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Preston 010D, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
11,338 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,867 published events cover 12 months, averaging 155.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 652 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.