Property market
The five-year median is £410,000 from 2 recorded sales in PR3 3BJ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Ribble Valley is £287,641 in June 2026, up 5.0% year on year.
PR3 3BJ
Alston & Hothersall · Ribble Valley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Preston
- Ward
- Alston & Hothersall
- Local authority
- Ribble Valley
- Constituency
- Ribble Valley
- Postcode district
- PR3
- Postcode sector
- PR3 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR3 3BJ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR3
- Postcode sector
- PR3 3
- Latitude
- 53.808687
- Longitude
- -2.612114
- British National Grid easting
- 359,789
- British National Grid northing
- 434,883
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
- E00128497
- 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
Property
5 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| White Bull Hotel, Preston Road, Alston, Preston, PR3 3BJ | 30 April 2024 | £590,000 |
| Alston Dairy, Preston Road, Alston, Preston, PR3 3BJ | 22 December 2022 | £230,000 |
| 251, Preston Road, Alston, Preston, PR3 3BJ | 6 January 2006 | £365,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 21
- Primary
- 15
- Secondary
- 2
- 1 m
Alston Lane Catholic Primary School, Longridge
Academy converter
- 1.9 km
St Cecilia's RC High School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.9 km
Grimsargh St Michael's Church of England Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 207
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 98
- Anti social behaviour 41
- Criminal damage and arson 19
- Vehicle crime 14
- Other theft 11
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 27
- Postcode households
- 14
- Residents per household
- 1.9
- PR3 3 residents
- 8,780
14 female, 13 male
Age bands in PR3 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 15.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 24.7%
1,382 residents
865 residents
1,916 residents
2,581 residents
2,211 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider PR3 3 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+
- 81.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 12.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 12.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 12.5%
- 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
3
within 5 km
STONEBRIDGE SURGERY
PRESTON ROAD, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON, PR3 3AP
ODS code P81107
2.1 km
BERRY LANE MEDICAL CENTRE
BERRY LANE, LONGRIDGE, PRESTON, PR3 3JJ
ODS code P81055
2.6 km
RIBBLETON MEDICAL CENTRE
243 RIBBLETON AVENUE, RIBBLETON, PRESTON, PR2 6RD
ODS code P81184
4.8 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Alston Lane RCPS
BCT · Grimsargh
- 0.1 miles
Alston Lane RCPS
BCT · Grimsargh
- 0.3 miles
Elston Lane
BCT · Grimsargh
- 0.3 miles
White Bull
BCT · Longridge
- 0.3 miles
White Bull
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.
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
- 1
- 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
21 open schools are in scope, including 15 primary and 2 secondary schools. Alston Lane Catholic Primary School, Longridge is the nearest published school at 1 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
207 published events cover 12 months, averaging 17.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 98 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.