Preston property guide

Lancashire's administrative centre and its busiest housing market.

This guide brings together the latest property, schools and crime data for Preston, Lancashire. Figures cover the 12 months to the end of May 2026 and are sourced from HM Land Registry, Police.uk and the DfE schools register. Trains reach Manchester in about 40 minutes and London Euston in about 2 hours 10 minutes.

Median sale price (12m)

£196,000

Sales registered (12m)

2,390

Open schools

93

About Preston

Preston's terraces in Plungington and Deepdale sit beside interwar semis in Fulwood and larger homes towards Broughton.

The county council, the University of Central Lancashire and a city-deal economy support demand, with the M6, M61 and M55 meeting on the city's edge.

House prices in Preston

The median sale price in Preston over the last 12 months was £196,000, across 2,390 recorded transactions. That is 6.7% lower than the previous 12 months.

Semi-detached homes were the most-traded type in Preston, accounting for 895 of the period's sales at a median of £210,000.

Median price by property type, last 12 months

Type	Median price	Sales
Detached	£330,000	589
Semi-detached	£210,000	895
Terraced	£135,000	697
Flat	£100,000	157
Other	£226,000	52

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Schools in Preston

Preston has 93 open schools recorded in the DfE register, including 57 primary, 17 secondary and 7 with a sixth form or 16-plus provision.

Nearest secondary schools to Preston centre

School	Postcode	Distance
Moor Park High School and Sixth Form	PR1 6DT	1.2 km
Archbishop Temple Church of England High School	PR2 8RA	1.5 km
Our Lady's Catholic High School	PR2 3SQ	1.6 km
Preston Muslim Girls High School	PR1 5BY	1.7 km
Corpus Christi Catholic High School	PR2 8QY	1.9 km

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Crime in Preston

In Preston, the largest reported categories over the last 12 months were anti-social behaviour (28.4%), violence and sexual offences (28.3%) and criminal damage and arson (8.3%).

Largest reported categories, last 12 months

Category	Share
Anti-social behaviour	28.4%
Violence and sexual offences	28.3%
Criminal damage and arson	8.3%
Other theft	6.3%
Public order	5.8%

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Postcode districts in Preston

Reported incident counts vary across postcode districts within the Preston boundary, partly reflecting where Police.uk anonymises locations and partly reflecting genuine differences in foot traffic and population density.

Postcode district	Reports (12m)
PR1	18,359
PR2	18,359
PR3	18,359
PR4	18,359
PR5	18,359

Living near Preston

Nearby towns include Burnley, Chorley, Lancaster, Accrington and Thornton-cleveleys.

Burnley
Chorley
Lancaster
Accrington
Thornton-cleveleys

Frequently asked questions about Preston

The median sale price in Preston over the last 12 months was £196,000, based on HM Land Registry data.

There are 93 open schools listed in the DfE register within the Preston area, covering primary, secondary and sixth-form provision.

According to Police.uk, the most-reported category in Preston over the last 12 months was anti-social behaviour, out of around 18,359 recorded incidents.

Sale prices come from HM Land Registry, crime statistics from the Police.uk open-data feed, schools data from the Department for Education, flood data from the Environment Agency, and energy ratings from the EPC public register.

The figures refresh monthly as new data is published by each source.

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Schools in Preston

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