Fulwood
TownTown in Preston, North West.
Fulwood is an ONS built-up area: the land built up as one town, whatever council it is in. Figures for Fulwood add up the census output areas (or, for claimants, the neighbourhoods) that sit mostly inside it, so they are close to, but not exactly, the town’s own.
Radon Affected Area by town
Worked out by Open Index · 2022
About 0% of people in Fulwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
How Fulwood compares
Each dot is a town. The black line marks the middle one.
Is Fulwood safe? What police records show
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Fulwood at a rate of 76.3 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 92.4 per 1,000 people across North West.
Across England as a whole, the recorded crime rate was 96.3 per 1,000 people.
In August 2026 alone, 234 cases of crime and anti-social behaviour were recorded in Fulwood.
In the 12 months to August 2026, the most common types were violence and sexual offences (1,217), anti-social behaviour (529) and other crime (474).
A year earlier, the recorded crime rate in Fulwood was 82.3 per 1,000 people.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Rates are per resident, so places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster, the City of London and other city centres, have far higher rates than their residents alone would suggest.
Deprivation in Fulwood, neighbourhood by neighbourhood
- Deprivation is ranked by neighbourhood, so Fulwood has no single figure. Of its 21 neighbourhoods with a rank:
- Decile 1 (England’s most deprived 10%): 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 2: 3 neighbourhoods
- Decile 5: 4 neighbourhoods
- Decile 6: 1 neighbourhood
- Decile 7: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 8: 2 neighbourhoods
- Decile 9: 6 neighbourhoods
- Decile 10 (England’s least deprived 10%): 2 neighbourhoods
English Indices of Deprivation 2025. Decile 1 is the most deprived tenth of neighbourhoods in England.
Neighbourhoods in Fulwood
| Name | People (census) | Recorded crime per 1,000 | Deprivation decile | Gigabit broadband |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Preston 002A | 1,490 | 44.5 per 1,000 | 10 | 93.1% |
| Preston 003A | 1,442 | 66.1 per 1,000 | 9 | 97.4% |
| Preston 003B | 1,485 | 63.5 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.1% |
| Preston 003C | 2,840 | 37.1 per 1,000 | 10 | 99.4% |
| Preston 003D | 1,504 | 88.0 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.8% |
| Preston 003E | 1,092 | 56.4 per 1,000 | 6 | 99.8% |
| Preston 003F | 1,187 | 37.7 per 1,000 | 8 | 99.8% |
| Preston 004D | 1,145 | 319.1 per 1,000 | 5 | 87.3% |
| Preston 004E | 1,318 | 75.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 82.9% |
| Preston 005A | 1,543 | 147.3 per 1,000 | 1 | 96.5% |
| Preston 005B | 1,407 | 84.1 per 1,000 | 2 | 100.0% |
| Preston 005C | 1,426 | 138.0 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.8% |
| Preston 005D | 1,398 | 96.9 per 1,000 | 2 | 97.5% |
| Preston 006A | 1,405 | 36.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 94.1% |
| Preston 006B | 1,645 | 44.9 per 1,000 | 8 | 92.8% |
| Preston 006C | 1,696 | 41.3 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.7% |
| Preston 006D | 2,142 | 95.2 per 1,000 | 5 | 97.5% |
| Preston 006E | 1,477 | 30.8 per 1,000 | 7 | 98.6% |
| Preston 007F | 1,456 | 75.5 per 1,000 | 5 | 93.7% |
| Preston 008B | 1,584 | 45.2 per 1,000 | 9 | 99.9% |
| Preston 008C | 1,449 | 59.2 per 1,000 | 7 | 99.7% |
Your MP
- Maya EllisLabourMP for Ribble Valley
As of , from the UK Parliament Members API. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0. Source: UK Parliament, Members API.
Council1
Postcode districts covering Fulwood1
Middle areas in Fulwood3
Towns near Fulwood6
Fulwood in brief
Fulwood is a town in Preston, North West.
About 37,545 people lived in Fulwood in mid-2024 (worked out by Open Index from ONS small-area estimates); the median price paid for a home was £218,000 in 2025 across 571 sales (HM Land Registry) and police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour at a rate of 76.3 per 1,000 people in the 12 months to August 2026 (police.uk).
The median price paid for a home in Fulwood was £218,000 in 2025.
Fulwood had 34,693 usual residents at the census.
About 0% of people in Fulwood live in a 1 km square that the radon atlas marks as a radon Affected Area.
In Fulwood, 96.4% of homes and businesses could get gigabit-capable broadband in January 2026.