PR2 postcode district: Preston and around, Lancashire

PR2 is a postcode district in Lancashire, with 1,792 postcodes in use in 9 sectors. It has postcodes in Preston, Fulwood, Grimsargh and 1 more place. Its council is Preston.

Postcodes in use: 1,792
Sectors: 9
Council: Preston
Places: 4 places

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026. See all our data sources

Every postcode in PR2, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 84
Some can get gigabit: 133
Every home and business can get gigabit: 1,463
Ofcom gives no figure: 112
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 1,792 postcodes in PR2 that ONS places, 84 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 133 have some that can, 1,463 can all get it and 112 have no Ofcom figure.

Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 150 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.7789, longitude -2.7067. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Source: Office for National Statistics (ONS) Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026, the centre point of each postcode; gigabit: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre. How we use them

Postcodes without gigabit

84 postcodes here have no gigabit. These are the 12 first in postcode order.

PR2 1BN PR2 1QE PR2 1SG PR2 2FS PR2 2HW PR2 2PH PR2 2QQ PR2 2YJ PR2 2YX PR2 2YY PR2 2YZ PR2 3JE

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

7 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PR2 6QG, is the one nearest the middle of them.
7 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PR2 9ZD, is the one nearest the middle of them.
5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PR2 6EZ, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in PR2?

Ofcom reports on 1,680 of the 1,792 postcodes in PR2. At 1,463 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 4 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit1,463 of 1,680

Postcodes where every home can get superfast1,624 of 1,680

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband4 of 1,680

Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.

Check one address on Ofcom's checker

Source: Ofcom, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

Is PR2 at risk of flooding?

140 of the 1,792 postcodes in PR2 have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 993 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 140 of 1,792 postcodes High: 381Medium: 612Low: 746Very low: 279

High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.

Source: Environment Agency, Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea (postcodes in areas at risk), published 6 July 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

What do homes sell for in PR2?

Homes in PR2 sold for a typical £195,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 869 sales, no change on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£195,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£195,000 12 months to August 2025

■ no change on the 12 months before

Detached £305,000 200 sales
Semi-detached £210,000 373 sales
Terraced £140,000 234 sales
Flat or maisonette £80,000 62 sales

Each bar is that kind's typical price, against the most expensive kind here.

Standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.

Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 September 2026. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it