Schools
7 open schools are in scope, including 6 primary and 0 secondary schools. Forton Primary School is the nearest published school at 533 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR3 0FF
Wyresdale · Wyre · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR3 0FF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 November 2019
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR3
- Postcode sector
- PR3 0
- Latitude
- 53.955951
- Longitude
- -2.774433
- British National Grid easting
- 349,279
- British National Grid northing
- 451,372
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Wyre · E07000128
- Electoral ward
- Wyresdale · E05009955
- Parish or community
- E04005326
- Westminster constituency
- Lancaster and Wyre · E14001318
- Output area
- E00129964
- Lower layer super output area
- Wyre 006C · E01025609
- Middle layer super output area
- Wyre 006 · E02005324
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
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Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 1, Throstles Nest Court, Forton, Preston, PR3 0FF | 9 March 2021 | £370,000 |
| 4, Throstles Nest Court, Forton, Preston, PR3 0FF | 5 March 2021 | £435,000 |
| 2, Throstles Nest Court, Forton, Preston, PR3 0FF | 1 April 2019 | £70,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 7
- Primary
- 6
- Secondary
- 0
- 533 m
Forton Primary School
Community school
- 2.3 km
Crookhey Hall School
Other independent special school
- 2.7 km
Cockerham Parochial CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 115
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 44
- Anti social behaviour 18
- Vehicle crime 12
- Other theft 10
- Criminal damage and arson 9
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 9
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- PR3 0 residents
- 8,711
4 female, 5 male
Age bands in PR3 0
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.6%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.4%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.2%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.2%
1,298 residents
1,102 residents
1,792 residents
2,546 residents
2,155 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PR3 0 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+
- 0%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 0%
- Gigabit-capable
- 0%
- 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.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
School Lane
BCT · Forton
- 0.1 miles
School Lane
BCT · Forton
- 0.2 miles
Forton Bank
BCT · Forton
- 0.2 miles
Brookfield Farm
BCT · Forton
- 0.3 miles
Sunny Bank Nurseries
BCT · Forton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Wyre 006C, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
22,816 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
Recorded crime
115 published events cover 12 months, averaging 9.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 44 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.