Preston recorded crime by postcode district
Crimes police recorded in July 2026 within roughly 1 mile of each district's centre, across the 7 Preston districts with a published figure. Counts, from data.police.uk street-level crime API.
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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.
Preston districts, lowest recorded count first
July 2026 · 1,616 recorded crimes across 7 districts · source: data.police.uk street-level crime API
| 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 of this table rather than shown as zero — a force not having published yet is not the same fact as no crime.
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.
Most recorded categories across Preston
| Category | Recorded | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 544 | 34% |
| Anti social behaviour | 328 | 20% |
| Shoplifting | 166 | 10% |
| Criminal damage arson | 130 | 8% |
| Public order | 107 | 7% |
Source and method
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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