PR7 postcode district: Chorley and around, Lancashire

PR7 is a postcode district in Lancashire, with 1,508 postcodes in use in 7 sectors. It has postcodes in Chorley, Euxton, Coppull and 3 more places. It is split between 3 councils: Chorley (1,458 postcodes), South Ribble (47) and West Lancashire (3).

Postcodes in use: 1,508
Sectors: 7
Councils: 3 councils
Places: 6 places

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

Every postcode in PR7, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 77
Some can get gigabit: 222
Every home and business can get gigabit: 1,182
Ofcom gives no figure: 27
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 1,508 postcodes in PR7 that ONS places, 77 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 222 have some that can, 1,182 can all get it and 27 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 53.6487, longitude -2.6556. 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

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

PR7 1AP PR7 1BQ PR7 1FG PR7 1NP PR7 1PA PR7 2AN PR7 2AW PR7 2NP PR7 3AD PR7 3BY PR7 3FG PR7 3PY

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PR7 7EH, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in PR7?

Ofcom reports on 1,481 of the 1,508 postcodes in PR7. At 1,182 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 1 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit1,182 of 1,481

Postcodes where every home can get superfast1,375 of 1,481

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband1 of 1,481

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 PR7 at risk of flooding?

30 of the 1,508 postcodes in PR7 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 66 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 30 of 1,508 postcodes High: 42Medium: 24Low: 47Very low: 6

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 PR7?

Homes in PR7 sold for a typical £222,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 821 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £220,000 from 1,144 sales: not a change larger than chance would explain, given which homes happened to sell.

£222,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£220,000 12 months to August 2025

Detached £346,125 242 sales
Semi-detached £222,000 284 sales
Terraced £170,000 209 sales
Flat or maisonette £121,000 86 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