Schools
72 open schools are in scope, including 47 primary and 9 secondary schools. Sherwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 564 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR2 9ZT
Sharoe Green · Preston · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sharoe Green
- Local authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley
- Postcode district
- PR2
- Postcode sector
- PR2 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR2 9ZT
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 December 1996
- Terminated
- 1 March 2014
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR2
- Postcode sector
- PR2 9
- Latitude
- 53.795753
- Longitude
- -2.688605
- British National Grid easting
- 354,738
- British National Grid northing
- 433,490
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
- E00128415
- Lower layer super output area
- Preston 004E · E01025303
- 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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 72
- Primary
- 47
- Secondary
- 9
- 564 m
Sherwood Primary School
Community school
- 1.0 km
St Clare's Catholic Primary School, Preston
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Fulwood, St Peter's Church of England Primary School and Nursery
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,082
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 476
- Anti social behaviour 156
- Public order 87
- Other theft 83
- Shoplifting 80
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PR2 9 residents
- 12,480
Age bands in PR2 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 23.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.4%
2,241 residents
1,170 residents
2,868 residents
3,501 residents
2,351 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
14
within 5 km straight-line
NORTH PRESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
BROADWAY SURGERY, 2 BROADWAY, FULWOOD, PRESTON, PR2 9TH
ODS code P81103
1.8 km
LYTHAM ROAD SURGERY
1ST FLOOR FATIMA MEDICAL CENTRE, 228 GARSTANG ROAD, FULWOOD, PRESTON, PR2 9QB
ODS code P81015
1.8 km
THE HEALTHCARE CENTRE
FLINTOFF WAY, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 5AF
ODS code P81067
2.2 km
RIBBLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
243 RIBBLETON AVENUE, RIBBLETON, PRESTON, PR2 6RD
ODS code P81184
2.8 km
ISSA MEDICAL CENTRE - PATEL
73 ST GREGORY ROAD, DEEPDALE, PRESTON, PR1 6YA
ODS code P81196
2.8 km
DR ALI GUTTRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
DEEPDALE ROAD, PRESTON, PR1 6LL
ODS code P81685
2.9 km
GUTTERIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE
GUTTRIDGE MEDICAL CENTRE, DEEPDALE ROAD, PRESTON, PR1 6LL
ODS code P81647
2.9 km
DR A HUSSAIN
200 MILLER ROAD, RIBBLETON, PRESTON, PR2 6NH
ODS code P81735
3.5 km
THE NEW HALL LANE PRACTICE
GEOFFREY STREET, PRESTON, PR1 5NE
ODS code P81071
3.6 km
LANE ENDS SURGERY
200 TULKETH BROW, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 2JJ
ODS code P81119
3.8 km
BRIARWOOD MEDICAL CENTRE
514 BLACKPOOL ROAD, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, ASHTON BANK, PRESTON, PR2 1HY
ODS code P81748
4.3 km
AVENHAM SURGERY
AVENHAM LANE, PRESTON, PR1 3RG
ODS code P81770
4.3 km
THE PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
COTTAM LANE, ASHTON-ON-RIBBLE, PRESTON, PR2 1JR
ODS code P81664
4.4 km
FISHERGATE HILL SURGERY
50 FISHERGATE HILL, PRESTON, PR1 8DN
ODS code P81169
4.9 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Pittman Court
BCT · Eastway
- 0.1 miles
Pittman Court
BCT · Eastway
- 0.2 miles
Sorting Office
BCT · Eastway
- 0.2 miles
Sorting Office
BCT · Eastway
- 0.2 miles
Olivers Place
BCT · Eastway
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Preston 004E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,340 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,082 published events cover 12 months, averaging 90.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 476 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.