Schools
84 open schools are in scope, including 48 primary and 18 secondary schools. Forest Academy is the nearest published school at 824 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BR4 9LU
West Wickham · Bromley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- West Wickham
- Ward
- West Wickham
- Local authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Beckenham and Penge
- Postcode district
- BR4
- Postcode sector
- BR4 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BR4 9LU
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BR
- Postcode district
- BR4
- Postcode sector
- BR4 9
- Latitude
- 51.367390
- Longitude
- -0.019330
- British National Grid easting
- 537,975
- British National Grid northing
- 165,009
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Bromley · E09000006
- Electoral ward
- West Wickham · E05014008
- Parish or community
- E43000196
- Westminster constituency
- Beckenham and Penge · E14001083
- Output area
- E00004103
- Lower layer super output area
- Bromley 030G · E01000840
- Middle layer super output area
- Bromley 030 · E02000156
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 BR4
Property
27 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 120a, Woodland Way, West Wickham, BR4 9LU | 23 October 2020 | £945,000 |
| 106, Woodland Way, West Wickham, BR4 9LU | 31 August 2018 | £1,200,000 |
| 142, Woodland Way, West Wickham, BR4 9LU | 30 July 2018 | £975,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 84
- Primary
- 48
- Secondary
- 18
- 824 m
Forest Academy
Academy converter
- 1.1 km
Addington Valley Academy
Free schools special
- 1.4 km
Glebe School
Academy special converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,972
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 779
- Vehicle crime 223
- Anti social behaviour 192
- Criminal damage and arson 153
- Shoplifting 152
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 74
- Postcode households
- 28
- Residents per household
- 2.6
- BR4 9 residents
- 10,308
30 female, 44 male
Age bands in BR4 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 18.9%
- Age 45 to 64
- 29.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 25.5%
1,510 residents
987 residents
1,779 residents
2,743 residents
2,404 residents
This postcode contained 0.7% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BR4 9 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
31
within 5 km
BROOM ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
23 BROOM ROAD, SHIRLEY, CROYDON, CR0 8NG
ODS code H83030
805 m
WICKHAM PARK SURGERY
2 MANOR ROAD, WEST WICKHAM, BR4 9PS
ODS code G84607
1.0 km
ADDINGTON ROAD SURGERY
77 ADDINGTON ROAD, WEST WICKHAM, BR4 9BG
ODS code G84017
1.1 km
STATION ROAD SURGERY
74 STATION ROAD, WEST WICKHAM, BR4 0PU
ODS code G84015
1.1 km
HEADLEY DRIVE SURGERY
117A HEADLEY DRIVE, NEW ADDINGTON, CROYDON, CR0 0QL
ODS code H83049
1.6 km
SHIRLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
370 WICKHAM ROAD, SHIRLEY, CROYDON, CR0 8BH
ODS code H83043
2.0 km
HARTLAND WAY SURGERY
1 HARTLAND WAY, CROYDON, CR0 8RG
ODS code H83029
2.0 km
PICKHURST SURGERY
56 PICKHURST LANE, HAYES, BROMLEY, BR2 7JF
ODS code G84033
2.4 km
ADDINGTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARKWAY, NEW ADDINGTON, CROYDON, CR0 0JA
ODS code H83028
2.6 km
NEW ADDINGTON GROUP PRACTICE
PARKWAY HEALTH CENTRE, PARKWAY, NEW ADDINGTON, CROYDON, CR0 0JA
ODS code H83006
2.6 km
FORGE CLOSE SURGERY
FORGE CLOSE, HAYES, BROMLEY, BR2 7LL
ODS code G84030
2.7 km
ASHBURTON PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
ASHBURTON PARK M.PRACTICE, 416 LOWER ADDISCOMBE ROAD, ADDISCOMBE, CROYDON, CR0 7AG
ODS code H83033
3.6 km
EDEN PARK SURGERY
194 CROYDON ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 4DQ
ODS code G84011
3.9 km
ST JAMES' PRACTICE
138 CROYDON ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 4DG
ODS code G84028
3.9 km
FARLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
53 FARLEY ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7NG
ODS code H83004
4.1 km
STOVELL HOUSE SURGERY
188 LOWER ADDISCOMBE ROAD, ADDISCOMBE, CROYDON, CR0 6AH
ODS code H83039
4.1 km
QUEENHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
31 QUEENHILL ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8DU
ODS code H83014
4.1 km
SELSDON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
97 ADDINGTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8LG
ODS code H83018
4.2 km
ELM HOUSE SURGERY
BECKENHAM BEACON, 379 CROYDON ROAD, BECKENHAM, BR3 3FD
ODS code G84027
4.3 km
PORTLAND MEDICAL CENTRE
184 PORTLAND ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, LONDON, SE25 4QB
ODS code H83001
4.3 km
Showing 20 of 31 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Addington Road / Pumping Station
BCT · West Wickham
- 0.2 miles
Addington Road / Pumping Station
BCT · West Wickham
- 0.3 miles
Gorse Road
BCT · Spring Park
- 0.3 miles
Shrublands / Bramble Close
BCT · Spring Park
- 0.4 miles
Broom Road
BCT · Spring Park
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bromley 030G, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
30,117 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
1,972 published events cover 12 months, averaging 164.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 779 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.