Schools
12 open schools are in scope, including 7 primary and 2 secondary schools. Brook View School is the nearest published school at 1.4 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR3 2HR
Ribchester · Ribble Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Preston
- Ward
- Ribchester
- Local authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley
- Postcode district
- PR3
- Postcode sector
- PR3 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR3 2HR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 October 2024
- Terminated
- 1 January 2025
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR3
- Postcode sector
- PR3 2
- Latitude
- 53.846286
- Longitude
- -2.542518
- British National Grid easting
- 364,404
- British National Grid northing
- 439,029
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Ribble Valley · E07000124
- Electoral ward
- Ribchester · E05012016
- Parish or community
- E04005276
- Westminster constituency
- Ribble Valley · E14001443
- Output area
- E00128620
- Lower layer super output area
- Ribble Valley 004D · E01025342
- Middle layer super output area
- Ribble Valley 004 · E02005273
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
1 recorded
sale at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Old Coach House, Mill Lane, Chipping, Preston, PR3 2HR | 23 June 2016 | £6,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 12
- Primary
- 7
- Secondary
- 2
- 2.3 km
Brook View School
Other independent special school
- 3.2 km
Hillside Specialist School and College
Community special school
- 4.0 km
Ribchester St Wilfrid's Church of England Voluntary Aided Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 10
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 4
- Anti social behaviour 2
- Criminal damage and arson 2
- Drugs 1
- Other theft 1
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PR3 2 residents
- 7,219
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
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
2
within 5 km straight-line
BERRY LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
BERRY LANE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON, PR3 3JJ
ODS code P81055
4.3 km
STONEBRIDGE SURGERY
PRESTON ROAD, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON, PR3 3AP
ODS code P81107
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
New Drop Inn
BCT · Dutton
- 0.5 miles
Halls Arms
BCT · Knowle Green
- 0.5 miles
Halls Arms
BCT · Knowle Green
- 0.7 miles
Moor Nook
BCT · Dutton
- 1.0 miles
Duddle House Farm
BCT · Dutton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ribble Valley 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
25,454 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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
10 published events cover 12 months, averaging 0.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 4 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.