Property market
The five-year median is £290,000 from 1 recorded sale in PR3 2FH. 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.
PR3 2FH
Preston Rural East · Preston · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Preston
- Ward
- Preston Rural East
- Local authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley
- Postcode district
- PR3
- Postcode sector
- PR3 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR3 2FH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR3
- Postcode sector
- PR3 2
- Latitude
- 53.826547
- Longitude
- -2.646375
- British National Grid easting
- 357,551
- British National Grid northing
- 436,890
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Preston · E07000123
- Electoral ward
- Preston Rural East · E05012204
- Parish or community
- E04005240
- Westminster constituency
- Ribble Valley · E14001443
- Output area
- E00128314
- Lower layer super output area
- Preston 001B · E01025279
- Middle layer super output area
- Preston 001 · E02005253
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 PR3
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Wayside, Back Lane, Whittingham, Preston, PR3 2FH | 31 March 2022 | £290,000 |
| Meadowcroft, Back Lane, Whittingham, Preston, PR3 2FH | 25 July 2018 | £559,950 |
| Daleside, Back Lane, Whittingham, Preston, PR3 2FH | 24 November 2000 | £128,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 16
- Primary
- 12
- Secondary
- 2
- 1.7 km
Goosnargh Oliverson's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.7 km
St Francis Catholic Primary School, Goosnargh
Voluntary aided school
- 2.6 km
Longridge St Wilfrid's Roman Catholic Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 185
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 108
- Public order 33
- Anti social behaviour 24
- Criminal damage and arson 7
- Other theft 4
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 17
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 3.4
- PR3 2 residents
- 7,219
7 female, 10 male
Age bands in PR3 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.1%
- Age 25 to 44
- 20.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 31.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 23.6%
1,023 residents
717 residents
1,474 residents
2,207 residents
1,678 residents
This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PR3 2 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+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 66.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 66.7%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 66.7%
- 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
2
within 5 km
STONEBRIDGE SURGERY
PRESTON ROAD, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON, PR3 3AP
ODS code P81107
2.5 km
BERRY LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
BERRY LANE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON, PR3 3JJ
ODS code P81055
2.9 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.5 miles
Hill Crest
BCT · Cumeragh
- 0.5 miles
Brabiner Lane
BCT · Cumeragh
- 0.5 miles
Bleasdale Road
BCT · Cumeragh Village
- 0.6 miles
Camforth Hall Lane
BCT · Whittingham
- 0.6 miles
Tansy Road
BCT · Cumeragh Village
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Preston 001B, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,640 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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
Schools
16 open schools are in scope, including 12 primary and 2 secondary schools. Goosnargh Oliverson's Church of England Primary School is the nearest published school at 1.0 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
185 published events cover 12 months, averaging 15.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 108 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.