PR4 postcode district: Longton and around, Lancashire

PR4 is a postcode district in Lancashire, with 1,840 postcodes in use in 9 sectors. It has postcodes in Longton, Kirkham, Tarleton and Hesketh Bank and 10 more places. It is split between 6 councils: Fylde (858 postcodes), South Ribble (399), Preston (282) and 3 others. ONS gives no location for 4 of its postcodes, and so no council.

Postcodes in use: 1,840
Sectors: 9
Councils: 6 councils
Places: 13 places

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

Every postcode in PR4, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 303
Some can get gigabit: 293
Every home and business can get gigabit: 1,169
Ofcom gives no figure: 71
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 1,836 postcodes in PR4 that ONS places, 303 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 293 have some that can, 1,169 can all get it and 71 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 180 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 53.7562, longitude -2.8321. 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

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

PR4 0AL PR4 0AT PR4 0AU PR4 0AY PR4 0DA PR4 0FR PR4 0FU PR4 0GJ PR4 0HA PR4 0NZ PR4 0RL PR4 0RR

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

40 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PR4 5QU, is the one nearest the middle of them.
38 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PR4 4GA, is the one nearest the middle of them.
29 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PR4 5WJ, is the one nearest the middle of them.
11 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PR4 4ZL, is the one nearest the middle of them.
10 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PR4 3LH, is the one nearest the middle of them.
9 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PR4 4XT, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in PR4?

Ofcom reports on 1,765 of the 1,840 postcodes in PR4. At 1,169 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 5 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit1,169 of 1,765

Postcodes where every home can get superfast1,536 of 1,765

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband5 of 1,765

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 PR4 at risk of flooding?

164 of the 1,840 postcodes in PR4 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 444 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 164 of 1,840 postcodes High: 196Medium: 248Low: 582Very low: 830

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 PR4?

Homes in PR4 sold for a typical £255,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 903 sales, down 5.5% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£255,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£269,950 12 months to August 2025

▼ down 5.5% on the 12 months before

Detached £342,500 397 sales
Semi-detached £220,000 348 sales
Terraced £165,000 135 sales
Flat or maisonette £118,334 23 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