Schools
14 open schools are in scope, including 9 primary and 2 secondary schools. Longridge High School is the nearest published school at 972 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR3 2YA
Alston & Hothersall · Ribble Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Alston & Hothersall
- Local authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley
- Postcode district
- PR3
- Postcode sector
- PR3 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR3 2YA
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1998
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR3
- Postcode sector
- PR3 2
- Latitude
- 53.819333
- Longitude
- -2.616598
- British National Grid easting
- 359,504
- British National Grid northing
- 436,070
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- Ribble Valley · E07000124
- Electoral ward
- Alston & Hothersall · E05012000
- Parish or community
- E04005265
- Westminster constituency
- Ribble Valley · E14001443
- Output area
- E00128496
- Lower layer super output area
- Ribble Valley 006A · E01025316
- Middle layer super output area
- Ribble Valley 006 · E02005275
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 14
- Primary
- 9
- Secondary
- 2
- 972 m
Longridge High School
Academy converter
- 974 m
St Cecilia's RC High School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.2 km
Alston Lane Catholic Primary School, Longridge
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 403
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 181
- Anti social behaviour 86
- Criminal damage and arson 33
- Other theft 25
- Shoplifting 23
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.
GP practices
2
within 5 km straight-line
STONEBRIDGE SURGERY
PRESTON ROAD, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON, PR3 3AP
ODS code P81107
1.1 km
BERRY LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
BERRY LANE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON, PR3 3JJ
ODS code P81055
1.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.4 miles
Alston Meadow
BCT · Longridge
- 0.4 miles
College Close
BCT · Longridge
- 0.5 miles
Alston Meadow
BCT · Longridge
- 0.5 miles
Southern Close
BCT · Longridge
- 0.5 miles
Southern Close
BCT · Longridge
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Ribble Valley 006A, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
30,964 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 10 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
403 published events cover 12 months, averaging 33.583 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 181 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.