Schools
80 open schools are in scope, including 52 primary and 11 secondary schools. Preston College is the nearest published school at 359 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR2 8GP
Sharoe Green · Preston · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Preston
- Ward
- Sharoe Green
- Local authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley
- Postcode district
- PR2
- Postcode sector
- PR2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR2 8GP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1995
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR2
- Postcode sector
- PR2 8
- Latitude
- 53.786313
- Longitude
- -2.696889
- British National Grid easting
- 354,182
- British National Grid northing
- 432,445
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Preston · E07000123
- Electoral ward
- Sharoe Green · E05012208
- Parish or community
- E43000225
- Westminster constituency
- Ribble Valley · E14001443
- Output area
- E00128414
- Lower layer super output area
- Preston 004D · E01025300
- Middle layer super output area
- Preston 004 · E02005256
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
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 104, The Paddock, Fulwood, Preston, PR2 8GP | 18 May 2007 | £46,000 |
| 104, The Paddock, Fulwood, Preston, PR2 8GP | 12 July 2002 | £31,000 |
| 99, The Paddock, Fulwood, Preston, PR2 8GP | 21 May 2001 | £29,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 80
- Primary
- 52
- Secondary
- 11
- 359 m
Preston College
Further education
- 612 m
Archbishop Temple Church of England High School
Voluntary aided school
- 659 m
Corpus Christi Catholic High School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,831
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 740
- Anti social behaviour 284
- Shoplifting 151
- Public order 128
- Other theft 121
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 36
- Postcode households
- 34
- Residents per household
- 1.1
- PR2 8 residents
- 7,350
10 female, 26 male
Age bands in PR2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.1%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.8%
1,206 residents
903 residents
1,710 residents
1,831 residents
1,392 residents
This postcode contained 0.5% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PR2 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+
- 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
17
within 5 km
LYTHAM ROAD SURGERY
1ST FLOOR FATIMA MEDICAL CENTRE, 228 GARSTANG ROAD, FULWOOD, PRESTON, PR2 9QB
ODS code P81015
995 m
THE HEALTHCARE CENTRE
FLINTOFF WAY, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 5AF
ODS code P81067
1.3 km
NORTH PRESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
BROADWAY SURGERY, 2 BROADWAY, FULWOOD, PRESTON, PR2 9TH
ODS code P81103
1.3 km
DR ALI GUTTRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
DEEPDALE ROAD, PRESTON, PR1 6LL
ODS code P81685
1.9 km
GUTTERIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
GUTTRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE, DEEPDALE ROAD, PRESTON, PR1 6LL
ODS code P81647
1.9 km
ISSA MEDICAL CENTRE - PATEL
73 ST GREGORY ROAD, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 6YA
ODS code P81196
1.9 km
RIBBLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
243 RIBBLETON AVENUE, RIBBLETON, PRESTON, PR2 6RD
ODS code P81184
2.6 km
LANE ENDS SURGERY
200 TULKETH BROW, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 2JJ
ODS code P81119
2.7 km
THE NEW HALL LANE PRACTICE
GEOFFREY STREET, PRESTON, PR1 5NE
ODS code P81071
2.7 km
DR A HUSSAIN
200 MILLER ROAD, RIBBLETON, PRESTON, PR2 6NH
ODS code P81735
3.1 km
BRIARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
514 BLACKPOOL ROAD, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, ASHTON BANK, PRESTON, PR2 1HY
ODS code P81748
3.2 km
AVENHAM SURGERY
AVENHAM LANE, PRESTON, PR1 3RG
ODS code P81770
3.3 km
THE PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
COTTAM LANE, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 1JR
ODS code P81664
3.3 km
FISHERGATE HILL SURGERY
50 FISHERGATE HILL, PRESTON, PR1 8DN
ODS code P81169
3.7 km
ST FILLAN'S MEDICAL CTRE
2 LIVERPOOL ROAD, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 0AD
ODS code P81018
4.5 km
RIVERSIDE MEDICAL CENTRE
194 VICTORIA ROAD, WALTON-LE-DALE, PRESTON, PR5 4AY
ODS code P81185
4.5 km
ST. MARY'S HEALTH CENTRE
COP LANE, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 0SR
ODS code P81213
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
Preston College
BCT · Fulwood
- 0.1 miles
St Vincents Road
BCT · Fulwood
- 0.1 miles
Preston College Grounds
BCT · Fulwood
- 0.2 miles
Churchfield
BCT · Sherwood
- 0.2 miles
Churchfields
BCT · Sherwood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Preston 004D, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
15,235 of 33,755
- Income
- 6 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 1 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
- 12
- 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
1,831 published events cover 12 months, averaging 152.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 740 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.