Schools
26 open schools are in scope, including 18 primary and 4 secondary schools. Longton Primary School is the nearest published school at 535 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
PR4 5WF
Longton & Hutton West · South Ribble · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- South Ribble
- Constituency
- South Ribble
- Postcode district
- PR4
- Postcode sector
- PR4 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- PR4 5WF
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 April 2003
- Terminated
- 1 January 2006
- Postcode area
- PR
- Postcode district
- PR4
- Postcode sector
- PR4 5
- Latitude
- 53.729591
- Longitude
- -2.783818
- British National Grid easting
- 348,385
- British National Grid northing
- 426,194
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- North West · E12000002
- Local authority district
- South Ribble · E07000126
- Electoral ward
- Longton & Hutton West · E05010227
- Parish or community
- E04005296
- Westminster constituency
- South Ribble · E14001491
- Output area
- E00129120
- Lower layer super output area
- South Ribble 011D · E01025440
- Middle layer super output area
- South Ribble 011 · E02005297
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 PR4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 26
- Primary
- 18
- Secondary
- 4
- 535 m
Longton Primary School
Foundation school
- 676 m
St Oswald's Catholic Primary School, Longton
Voluntary aided school
- 1.3 km
Hutton Church of England Grammar School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 176
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 73
- Anti social behaviour 43
- Criminal damage and arson 18
- Public order 10
- Other theft 7
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- PR4 5 residents
- 8,476
Age bands in PR4 5
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 17.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 29.3%
1,197 residents
760 residents
1,495 residents
2,516 residents
2,475 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
6
within 5 km straight-line
LONGTON HEALTH CENTRE
LIVERPOOL ROAD, LONGTON, PRESTON, PR4 5HA
ODS code P81040
313 m
BEECHES MEDICAL CENTRE
LIVERPOOL ROAD, LONGTON, PRESTON, PR4 5AB
ODS code P81692
618 m
NEW LONGTON SURGERY
THE VILLAGE SURGERY, 2 CHURCHSIDE, NEW LONGTON, PRESTON, PR4 4LU
ODS code P81687
2.7 km
KINGSFOLD MEDICAL CENTRE
WOODCROFT CLOSE, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 9BX
ODS code P81181
4.0 km
ST. MARY'S HEALTH CENTRE
COP LANE, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 0SR
ODS code P81213
4.1 km
ST FILLAN'S MEDICAL CTRE
2 LIVERPOOL ROAD, PENWORTHAM, PRESTON, PR1 0AD
ODS code P81018
4.3 km
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Franklands
BCT · Longton
- 0.2 miles
Shirley Lane
BCT · Longton
- 0.2 miles
Library
BCT · Longton
- 0.2 miles
Booths
BCT · Longton
- 0.2 miles
St Andrews Church
BCT · Longton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Ribble 011D, 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
31,146 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 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
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 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
176 published events cover 12 months, averaging 14.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 73 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.