Recorded crime
Preston recorded crime by postcode district
Crimes police recorded in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of each district centre, across 7 Preston districts. Counts, not rates.
Crimes recorded, July 2026
1,616
Across 7 districts, within about 1 mile of each centre.
- Districts
- 7
- Most recorded
- Violence
data.police.uk, July 2026
Summary
Recorded crime in Preston: police recorded 1,616 crimes in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of the centre of each of the 7 postcode districts with a published figure. PR3 has the lowest recorded count (1) and PR1 the highest (757). The most often recorded category was violent crime, at 34% of the month's recorded crimes. These are counts, not rates: a district with shops, bars and a station will out-count a residential one on footfall alone.
Data from data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026.
Read this first
These are counts, not rates. data.police.uk street-level crime API publishes how many crimes were recorded near a point; it publishes no population figure to divide by. A district with a station, shops and bars will record more crime than a residential one because more people pass through it, not necessarily because residents are more likely to be a victim. Recorded crime is also only crime that was reported and recorded, and reporting rates vary by crime type and by area.
Use this to see the shape of a city and to prompt better questions, not to decide that one district is good and another bad.
Our take · opinion, not advice
Our take on Preston crime counts: a wide gap that mostly reflects footfall
Preston’s 7 districts with a published figure add up to 1,616 recorded crimes for July 2026, from 1 in PR3 to 757 in PR1, a gap that wide mostly tracks footfall, shops and nightlife rather than where is pleasant to live.
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Key figures
Preston crime counts at a glance
Police records for July 2026. A count near each district centre is not a safety ranking.
Lowest district
1
PR3, crimes recorded
Middle district
170
Median of the districts
Highest district
757
PR1, crimes recorded
Top category
Violence
544 of 1,616 crimes
Recorded crime
Preston crime by category and district
1,616 recorded crimes across 7 districts in July 2026.
By category
What the recorded crimes were
Violent crime was the most recorded category, with 544 of 1,616 crimes (34%). It describes the month's police records, not what is likely to happen to you.
See the figures
| Category | Recorded | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 544 | 34% |
| Anti social behaviour | 328 | 20% |
| Shoplifting | 166 | 10% |
| Criminal damage arson | 130 | 8% |
| Public order | 107 | 7% |
data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026
By district
Preston districts, lowest recorded count first
Counts run from 1 in PR3 to 757 in PR1. Each row is one postcode district: how many crimes police recorded within about a mile of its centre.
See the figures
| District | Recorded crimes | Most recorded category | Area data |
|---|---|---|---|
| PR3 | 1 | Violent crime (1) | PR3 area report |
| PR4 | 4 | Vehicle crime (2) | PR4 area report |
| PR26 | 89 | Violent crime (46) | PR26 area report |
| PR5 | 170 | Violent crime (62) | PR5 area report |
| PR25 | 283 | Violent crime (89) | PR25 area report |
| PR2 | 312 | Violent crime (110) | PR2 area report |
| PR1 | 757 | Violent crime (236) | PR1 area report |
Districts with no figure published for July 2026 are left out rather than shown as zero: a force not having published yet is not the same fact as no crime.
data.police.uk street-level crime API, July 2026
Reading the numbers
What the numbers show
Across the 7 Preston postcode districts with a published figure for July 2026, police recorded 1,616 crimes in total within roughly a mile of each district centroid. The median district recorded 170.
PR3 has the lowest recorded crime count of the districts listed (1), and PR1 the highest (757).
The spread across the city is wide: the highest-counting district recorded about 757.0 times as many crimes as the lowest. Much of a gap that size reflects what is in the radius: a city-centre district with shops, bars and a station will out-count a residential one before any difference in how people behave.
The most frequently recorded category across these districts was violent crime, at 34% of all recorded crimes in the month.
Questions, answered
Preston recorded crime: your questions
How many crimes were recorded in Preston?
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Why does this page not rank Preston districts by crime rate?
Source and method
Where these figures come from
data.police.uk street-level crime API (API documentation), month 2026-07, one request per district at its centroid, ~1 mile radius. England and Wales only. Data.police.uk does not carry Police Scotland or PSNI. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Crime locations published by police forces are snapped to anonymised map points to protect victims, so a point is never an exact address. A guide is only generated for a city where at least 5 of its districts have a published figure.
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