PR9 postcode district: Southport and around

PR9 is a postcode district in England, with 941 postcodes in use in 4 sectors. It has postcodes in Southport and Banks. It is split between 2 councils: Sefton (806 postcodes) and West Lancashire (135). 135 of its 941 postcodes are in Lancashire. ONS lists no county for the other 806.

Postcodes in use: 941
Sectors: 4
Councils: 2 councils
Places: 2 places

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

Every postcode in PR9, by gigabit broadband

No home or business can get gigabit: 81
Some can get gigabit: 235
Every home and business can get gigabit: 601
Ofcom gives no figure: 24
Outline: where 5 or more postcodes without gigabit lie together

Of the 941 postcodes in PR9 that ONS places, 81 have no home or business that can get gigabit, 235 have some that can, 601 can all get it and 24 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 160 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 53.6599, longitude -2.9681. 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

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

PR9 0EA PR9 0HB PR9 0HE PR9 0HF PR9 0HZ PR9 0LB PR9 0NU PR9 0SJ PR9 0SN PR9 0UH PR9 7DG PR9 7DH

Where the postcodes without gigabit lie together

6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PR9 9NG, is the one nearest the middle of them.
6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PR9 9JP, is the one nearest the middle of them.
6 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PR9 9NX, is the one nearest the middle of them.
5 postcodes without gigabit, outlined on the map. PR9 8DE, is the one nearest the middle of them.

What broadband can you get in PR9?

Ofcom reports on 917 of the 941 postcodes in PR9. At 601 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband, and at 3 some cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s).

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit601 of 917

Postcodes where every home can get superfast810 of 917

Postcodes where some cannot get decent broadband3 of 917

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 PR9 at risk of flooding?

402 of the 941 postcodes in PR9 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 126 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 402 of 941 postcodes High: 59Medium: 67Low: 327Very low: 9,545

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 PR9?

Homes in PR9 sold for a typical £210,000 in the 12 months to August 2026, across 548 sales, down 1.8% on the 12 months before, HM Land Registry's figures show.

£210,000 typical price, the 12 months to August 2026

£213,800 12 months to August 2025

▼ down 1.8% on the 12 months before

Detached £325,000 99 sales
Semi-detached £225,000 269 sales
Terraced £165,000 41 sales
Flat or maisonette £115,000 139 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