Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire

Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire is covered by postcode district HU12. It is in the East Riding of Yorkshire council area, England.

ONS publishes this built-up area as Preston (East Riding of Yorkshire).

Typical price £167,500 Homes sold in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 55 of 60 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Low risk only 1 of 60 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk Schools 2 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes

Every postcode in this place, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in this place, by flood risk Of the 60 postcodes in this place that ONS places, 1 are at very low risk only and 59 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. HU12 8FQ: not on the flood risk listHU12 8FS: not on the flood risk listHU12 8FU: not on the flood risk listHU12 8FW: not on the flood risk listHU12 8FY: not on the flood risk listHU12 8GX: not on the flood risk listHU12 8QH: not on the flood risk listHU12 8QJ: not on the flood risk listHU12 8RA: not on the flood risk listHU12 8RT: not on the flood risk listHU12 8RU: not on the flood risk listHU12 8RX: not on the flood risk listHU12 8SA: not on the flood risk listHU12 8SB: not on the flood risk listHU12 8SD: not on the flood risk listHU12 8SE: not on the flood risk listHU12 8SF: not on the flood risk listHU12 8SG: not on the flood risk listHU12 8SH: not on the flood risk listHU12 8SQ: not on the flood risk listHU12 8SZ: not on the flood risk listHU12 8TA: not on the flood risk listHU12 8TB: not on the flood risk listHU12 8TD: not on the flood risk listHU12 8TE: not on the flood risk listHU12 8TG: not on the flood risk listHU12 8TQ: not on the flood risk listHU12 8TS: not on the flood risk listHU12 8TT: not on the flood risk listHU12 8TW: not on the flood risk listHU12 8TZ: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UA: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UB: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UD: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UE: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UF: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UG: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UJ: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UL: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UN: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UP: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UQ: not on the flood risk listHU12 8US: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UT: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UU: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UW: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UX: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UY: not on the flood risk listHU12 8UZ: not on the flood risk listHU12 8WJ: not on the flood risk listHU12 8XA: not on the flood risk listHU12 8XB: not on the flood risk listHU12 8XD: not on the flood risk listHU12 8XE: not on the flood risk listHU12 8XF: not on the flood risk listHU12 8XG: not on the flood risk listHU12 8XH: not on the flood risk listHU12 8XY: not on the flood risk listHU12 8XZ: not on the flood risk list Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire Map of every postcode in this place, by flood risk Of the 60 postcodes in this place that ONS places, 1 are at very low risk only and 59 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One postcode lies beyond the edge and is listed under the map. Places named: South West Holderness. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. South West Holderness
  • A home or business at high risk: 0
  • At medium risk at worst: 0
  • At low risk at worst: 0
  • At very low risk only: 1
  • Not on the at-risk list: 59

Of the 60 postcodes in this place that ONS places, 1 are at very low risk only and 59 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.

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. No boundary is drawn. Where marks overlap, the one first in the key is drawn; the counts include every postcode. Names in italics are council wards: we hold no town or village names here.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 53.7572, longitude -0.1989. Open this area on OpenStreetMap

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. 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.

Further out, not drawn

This postcode lies well apart from the rest, so the map is drawn without it to show the rest closer; it is in every count.

HU12 8JX

What is it like to live in this place?

Homes sold for a typical £167,500 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 55 of the 60 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts no home or business at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 1 of its 60 postcodes. It has 1 primary school and 1 secondary school at its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Marfleet Group Practice, 4.4 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Hull, 9.8 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.

Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.

What do homes cost in this place?

Homes in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire sold for a typical £167,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 20 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £190,000 from 53 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

£167,500 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£190,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £352,000 5 sales
  • Semi-detached £148,000 11 sales
  • Terraced 4 sales, too few to price

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

Across the whole HU12 district, Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire's main postcode district: a typical £190,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in this place: 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 October 2026.

Are new homes being built in this place?

8 of the 60 postcodes now in use in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 18 of the 53 homes sold in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire were newly built (34%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the HU12 district, 5%.

The newest postcodes

HU12 8RUsince November 2023HU12 8RTsince August 2023HU12 8FYsince June 2023HU12 8GXsince June 2023HU12 8FUsince April 2023HU12 8FWsince December 2022

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn this placeAcross the HU12 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 20 (0%) 0 of 309 (0%)
The 12 months to September 2025 18 of 53 (34%) 24 of 463 (5%)

Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.

What broadband can you get in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire?

Ofcom reports on 60 of the 60 postcodes in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire. At 55 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit55 of 60
Postcodes where every home can get superfast55 of 60

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, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire at risk of flooding?

1 of the 60 postcodes in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts none of the homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 1 of 60 postcodes Very low: 12

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 flood risk, published 6 July 2026.

Which schools are in this place?

The open schools at the postcodes in this place. A school for ages 4 to 18 is listed under both. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.

Primary

Secondary

Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UK

Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from this place?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in this place is Hull Rail Station, 9.8 km away in a straight line.

  • Hull Rail Station Railway station 9.8 kmDrive
  • New Holland Rail Station Railway station 12.3 kmDrive
  • Goxhill Rail Station Railway station 12.8 kmDrive

Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.

Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.

Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.

Which GP surgeries are in this place?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in this place. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is this place safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 127 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in this place over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 16 September 2025
  2. 5 October 2025
  3. 8 November 2025
  4. 11 December 2025
  5. 13 January 2026
  6. 9 February 2026
  7. 18 March 2026
  8. 12 April 2026
  9. 10 May 2026
  10. 11 June 2026
  11. 9 July 2026
  12. 5 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences60 reports
Public order15 reports
Criminal damage and arson14 reports
Other theft10 reports
Burglary7 reports
Other crime7 reports
Anti-social behaviour6 reports
Vehicle crime3 reports

Also: possession of weapons 2, bicycle theft 1, drugs 1, robbery 1.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile each way is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

Crime around one postcode

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs this place?

Parliamentary constituency
Beverley and Holderness
Police force area
Humberside
Region
Yorkshire and The Humber
Country
England
MP
Graham Stuart (Conservative)

All 60 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

Moving here

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Postcodes here

60 postcodes in use in this place, by district:

HU12 postcode district,60 postcodes

That district is in the HU postcode area.

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Places nearby

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside this place's £167,500. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Hedon2.0 km, £180,000Bilton4.0 km, £166,000Thorngumbald4.5 km, £210,000Keyingham7.8 km, £182,000Kingston upon Hull9.4 km, £140,000Goxhill12.3 km, £235,000New Holland12.5 km, £120,000Cottingham14.7 km, £245,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about this place

What is the postcode for Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire?
Postcode district HU12, with 60 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire in?
East Riding of Yorkshire. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire?
Graham Stuart (Conservative), for Beverley and Holderness. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire?
A typical £167,500 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 20 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire?
Primary schools at its postcodes include Preston Primary School; secondary schools at its postcodes include Holderness Academy. Source: Department for Education.
Does Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire have a railway station?
The nearest is Hull station, 9.8 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire?
Ofcom reports on 60 of the 60 postcodes in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire. At 55 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire at risk of flooding?
1 of the 60 postcodes in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire has a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts none of the homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
Are new homes being built in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire?
8 of the 60 postcodes now in use in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 18 of the 53 homes sold in Preston, East Riding of Yorkshire were newly built (34%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the HU12 district, 5%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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