Schools
70 open schools are in scope, including 42 primary and 12 secondary schools. Ravens Wood School is the nearest published school at 840 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BR2 8QR
Bromley Common & Holwood · Bromley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Bromley and Biggin Hill
- Postcode district
- BR2
- Postcode sector
- BR2 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BR2 8QR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BR
- Postcode district
- BR2
- Postcode sector
- BR2 8
- Latitude
- 51.371199
- Longitude
- 0.047399
- British National Grid easting
- 542,608
- British National Grid northing
- 165,560
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Bromley · E09000006
- Electoral ward
- Bromley Common & Holwood · E05013990
- Parish or community
- E43000196
- Westminster constituency
- Bromley and Biggin Hill · E14001137
- Output area
- E00003224
- Lower layer super output area
- Bromley 033C · E01000667
- Middle layer super output area
- Bromley 033 · E02000159
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore BR2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 70
- Primary
- 42
- Secondary
- 12
- 840 m
Ravens Wood School
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
TLC The Learning Centre
Other independent special school
- 1.1 km
Trinity Church of England Primary School
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,213
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 493
- Anti social behaviour 156
- Public order 128
- Vehicle crime 100
- Criminal damage and arson 84
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 2
- Postcode households
- 2
- Residents per household
- 1.0
- BR2 8 residents
- 10,695
1 female, 1 male
Age bands in BR2 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.9%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.4%
- Age 65 and over
- 17.9%
2,118 residents
1,196 residents
2,683 residents
3,000 residents
1,963 residents
This postcode contained 0% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BR2 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
23
within 5 km
SUMMERCROFT SURGERY
STARTS HILL ROAD, ORPINGTON, BR6 7AR
ODS code G84006
1.3 km
BROMLEY COMMON PRACTICE
CROWN MEDICAL CENTRE, 3 MACKINTOSH STREET, BROMLEY, BR2 9GT
ODS code G84024
1.9 km
SOUTHBOROUGH LANE SURGERY
CROWN MEDICAL CENTRE, 3 MACKINTOSH STREET, BROMLEY, BR2 9GT
ODS code G84023
1.9 km
BANK HOUSE SURGERY
84 HIGH STREET, FARNBOROUGH, ORPINGTON, BR6 7BA
ODS code G84609
2.1 km
FORGE CLOSE SURGERY
FORGE CLOSE, HAYES, BROMLEY, BR2 7LL
ODS code G84030
2.2 km
WHITEHOUSE SURGERY
123 TOWNCOURT LANE, PETTS WOOD, ORPINGTON, BR5 1EL
ODS code G84621
2.5 km
PICKHURST SURGERY
56 PICKHURST LANE, HAYES, BROMLEY, BR2 7JF
ODS code G84033
2.7 km
TUDOR WAY SURGERY
42 TUDOR WAY, PETTS WOOD, ORPINGTON, BR5 1LH
ODS code G84035
2.9 km
FAMILY SURGERY
7 HIGH STREET, GREEN STREET GREEN, ORPINGTON, BR6 6BG
ODS code G84009
3.5 km
GREEN STREET GREEN MED CT
21 HIGH STREET, GREEN STREET GREEN, ORPINGTON, BR6 6BG
ODS code G84627
3.5 km
BALLATER SURGERY
108 CHISLEHURST ROAD, ORPINGTON, BR6 0DP
ODS code G84040
3.5 km
ADDINGTON ROAD SURGERY
77 ADDINGTON ROAD, WEST WICKHAM, BR4 9BG
ODS code G84017
3.6 km
KNOLL MEDICAL PRACTICE
19 HOMEFIELD RISE, ORPINGTON, BR6 0FE
ODS code G84032
3.8 km
DYSART SURGERY
1ST FLOOR, RAVENSLEIGH HOUSE, 22 WESTMORELAND PLACE, BROMLEY, BR1 1DS
ODS code G84002
3.8 km
SOUTH VIEW PARTNERSHIP
SOUTHVIEW LODGE, SOUTH VIEW, BROMLEY, BR1 3DR
ODS code G84001
4.1 km
POVEREST MEDICAL CENTRE
42 POVEREST ROAD, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 2DQ
ODS code G84007
4.3 km
CHELSFIELD SURGERY
62 WINDSOR DRIVE, CHELSFIELD, ORPINGTON, BR6 6HD
ODS code G84020
4.3 km
STATION ROAD SURGERY
74 STATION ROAD, WEST WICKHAM, BR4 0PU
ODS code G84015
4.4 km
GILLMANS ROAD SURGERY
1 GILLMANS ROAD, ORPINGTON, BR5 4LA
ODS code G84041
4.4 km
CRESCENT SURGERY
38 MARION CRESCENT, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 2DD
ODS code G84630
4.6 km
Showing 20 of 23 matching practices.
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Lakeside Drive Keston Mark
BCT · Keston Mark
- 0.1 miles
Lakeside Drive Keston Mark
BCT · Keston Mark
- 0.2 miles
Farnborough Park
BCT · Locksbottom
- 0.2 miles
Farnborough Park
BCT · Locksbottom
- 0.3 miles
Keston Park Close
BCT · Locksbottom
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bromley 033C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,196 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 9 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
1,213 published events cover 12 months, averaging 101.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 493 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.