Property market
The five-year median is £163,000 from 1 recorded sale in PR2 6LB. 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 6LB
Ribbleton · Preston · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR2 6LB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR2
- Postcode sector
- PR2 6
- Latitude
- 53.771593
- Longitude
- -2.653297
- British National Grid easting
- 357,039
- British National Grid northing
- 430,780
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Preston · E07000123
- Electoral ward
- Ribbleton · E05012206
- Parish or community
- E43000225
- Westminster constituency
- Preston · E14001433
- Output area
- E00128337
- Lower layer super output area
- Preston 009B · E01025283
- Middle layer super output area
- Preston 009 · E02005261
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2, Whitmore Place, Ribbleton, Preston, PR2 6LB | 7 November 2025 | £163,000 |
| 11, Whitmore Place, Ribbleton, Preston, PR2 6LB | 30 April 2014 | £93,000 |
| 10, Whitmore Place, Ribbleton, Preston, PR2 6LB | 19 May 2006 | £83,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 71
- Primary
- 46
- Secondary
- 10
- 388 m
Sir Tom Finney Community High School
Community special school
- 503 m
The Blessed Sacrament Catholic Primary School, Preston
Academy converter
- 579 m
Brockholes Wood Community Primary School and Nursery
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,152
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,164
- Anti social behaviour 458
- Criminal damage and arson 340
- Shoplifting 274
- Other theft 190
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 51
- Postcode households
- 18
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- PR2 6 residents
- 15,116
26 female, 25 male
Age bands in PR2 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 23%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 27.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.6%
3,448 residents
1,821 residents
4,061 residents
3,642 residents
2,034 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PR2 6 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
15
within 5 km
DR A HUSSAIN
200 MILLER ROAD, RIBBLETON, PRESTON, PR2 6NH
ODS code P81735
271 m
RIBBLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
243 RIBBLETON AVENUE, RIBBLETON, PRESTON, PR2 6RD
ODS code P81184
773 m
THE NEW HALL LANE PRACTICE
GEOFFREY STREET, PRESTON, PR1 5NE
ODS code P81071
2.0 km
ISSA MEDICAL CENTRE - PATEL
73 ST GREGORY ROAD, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 6YA
ODS code P81196
2.2 km
THE HEALTHCARE CENTRE
FLINTOFF WAY, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 5AF
ODS code P81067
2.4 km
DR ALI GUTTRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
DEEPDALE ROAD, PRESTON, PR1 6LL
ODS code P81685
2.5 km
GUTTERIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
GUTTRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE, DEEPDALE ROAD, PRESTON, PR1 6LL
ODS code P81647
2.5 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
194 VICTORIA ROAD, WALTON-LE-DALE, PRESTON, PR5 4AY
ODS code P81185
2.9 km
AVENHAM SURGERY
AVENHAM LANE, PRESTON, PR1 3RG
ODS code P81770
3.1 km
LYTHAM ROAD SURGERY
1ST FLOOR FATIMA MEDICAL CENTRE, 228 GARSTANG ROAD, FULWOOD, PRESTON, PR2 9QB
ODS code P81015
4.2 km
ROSLEA SURGERY
51 STATION ROAD, BAMBER BRIDGE, PRESTON, PR5 6PE
ODS code P81083
4.2 km
FISHERGATE HILL SURGERY
50 FISHERGATE HILL, PRESTON, PR1 8DN
ODS code P81169
4.5 km
NORTH PRESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
BROADWAY SURGERY, 2 BROADWAY, FULWOOD, PRESTON, PR2 9TH
ODS code P81103
4.6 km
THE RYAN MEDICAL CENTRE
ST. MARYS ROAD, BAMBER BRIDGE, PRESTON, PR5 6JD
ODS code P81082
4.6 km
LANE ENDS SURGERY
200 TULKETH BROW, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 2JJ
ODS code P81119
4.9 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
- 0.0 miles
Whitmore Drive
BCT · Moor Nook
- 0.1 miles
Slaidburn Road
BCT · Moor Nook
- 0.1 miles
Grizedale Crescent
BCT · Moor Nook
- 0.1 miles
Moor Nook Shops
BCT · Moor Nook
- 0.1 miles
Burholme Close
BCT · Moor Nook
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Preston 009B, 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
1,384 of 33,755
- Income
- 1 of 10
- Employment
- 1 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
- 9 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
- 3
- 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
71 open schools are in scope, including 46 primary and 10 secondary schools. Sir Tom Finney Community High School is the nearest published school at 388 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
3,152 published events cover 12 months, averaging 262.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,164 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.