Property market
The five-year median is £225,000 from 1 recorded sale in BR5 1LA. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Bromley is £518,235 in June 2026, down 1.4% year on year.
BR5 1LA
Petts Wood & Knoll · Bromley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BR5 1LA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BR
- Postcode district
- BR5
- Postcode sector
- BR5 1
- Latitude
- 51.390084
- Longitude
- 0.073940
- British National Grid easting
- 544,396
- British National Grid northing
- 167,712
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Bromley · E09000006
- Electoral ward
- Petts Wood & Knoll · E05014003
- Parish or community
- E43000196
- Westminster constituency
- Orpington · E14001417
- Output area
- E00003974
- Lower layer super output area
- Bromley 022C · E01000807
- Middle layer super output area
- Bromley 022 · E02000148
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 BR5
Property
21 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 197, Petts Wood Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1LA | 5 December 2025 | £225,000 |
| 203, Petts Wood Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1LA | 4 June 2019 | £5,000 |
| 205b, Petts Wood Road, Petts Wood, Orpington, BR5 1LA | 6 July 2018 | £185,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 83
- Primary
- 49
- Secondary
- 13
- 534 m
St James' Roman Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 872 m
Crofton Junior School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Crofton Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,080
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 241
- Vehicle crime 171
- Anti social behaviour 169
- Shoplifting 103
- Criminal damage and arson 94
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 76
- Postcode households
- 25
- Residents per household
- 3.0
- BR5 1 residents
- 12,260
43 female, 33 male
Age bands in BR5 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 22.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.9%
2,320 residents
1,039 residents
2,753 residents
3,317 residents
2,641 residents
This postcode contained 0.6% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BR5 1 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
27
within 5 km
TUDOR WAY SURGERY
42 TUDOR WAY, PETTS WOOD, ORPINGTON, BR5 1LH
ODS code G84035
344 m
WHITEHOUSE SURGERY
123 TOWNCOURT LANE, PETTS WOOD, ORPINGTON, BR5 1EL
ODS code G84621
706 m
BALLATER SURGERY
108 CHISLEHURST ROAD, ORPINGTON, BR6 0DP
ODS code G84040
1.7 km
POVEREST MEDICAL CENTRE
42 POVEREST ROAD, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 2DQ
ODS code G84007
1.9 km
CRESCENT SURGERY
38 MARION CRESCENT, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 2DD
ODS code G84630
2.3 km
KNOLL MEDICAL PRACTICE
19 HOMEFIELD RISE, ORPINGTON, BR6 0FE
ODS code G84032
2.5 km
BROMLEY COMMON PRACTICE
CROWN MEDICAL CENTRE, 3 MACKINTOSH STREET, BROMLEY, BR2 9GT
ODS code G84024
2.5 km
SOUTHBOROUGH LANE SURGERY
CROWN MEDICAL CENTRE, 3 MACKINTOSH STREET, BROMLEY, BR2 9GT
ODS code G84023
2.5 km
ST MARY CRAY PRACTICE
322 HIGH STREET, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 4AR
ODS code G84013
2.8 km
BROOMWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
41 BROOMWOOD ROAD, ST. PAULS CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 2JP
ODS code G84019
2.8 km
SUMMERCROFT SURGERY
STARTS HILL ROAD, ORPINGTON, BR6 7AR
ODS code G84006
2.9 km
GILLMANS ROAD SURGERY
1 GILLMANS ROAD, ORPINGTON, BR5 4LA
ODS code G84041
2.9 km
DERRY DOWNS SURGERY
29 DERRY DOWNS, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 4DU
ODS code G84005
3.0 km
THE CHISLEHURST PARTNERSHIP
42 HIGH STREET, CHISLEHURST, BR7 5AQ
ODS code G84010
3.3 km
BANK HOUSE SURGERY
84 HIGH STREET, FARNBOROUGH, ORPINGTON, BR6 7BA
ODS code G84609
3.5 km
SOUTH VIEW PARTNERSHIP
SOUTHVIEW LODGE, SOUTH VIEW, BROMLEY, BR1 3DR
ODS code G84001
3.7 km
FAMILY SURGERY
7 HIGH STREET, GREEN STREET GREEN, ORPINGTON, BR6 6BG
ODS code G84009
4.1 km
GREEN STREET GREEN MED CT
21 HIGH STREET, GREEN STREET GREEN, ORPINGTON, BR6 6BG
ODS code G84627
4.1 km
DYSART SURGERY
1ST FLOOR, RAVENSLEIGH HOUSE, 22 WESTMORELAND PLACE, BROMLEY, BR1 1DS
ODS code G84002
4.2 km
FORGE CLOSE SURGERY
FORGE CLOSE, HAYES, BROMLEY, BR2 7LL
ODS code G84030
4.2 km
Showing 20 of 27 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
- 0.1 miles
Station Square / Petts Wood Station
BCT · Petts Wood
- 0.1 miles
Woodland Way
BCT · Petts Wood
- 0.1 miles
Petts Wood
RSE · Petts Wood
- 0.1 miles
Woodland Way
BCT · Petts Wood
- 0.1 miles
Petts Wood
RSE · Petts Wood
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bromley 022C, 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
8 of 10
Overall England rank
26,739 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 3 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
Schools
83 open schools are in scope, including 49 primary and 13 secondary schools. St James' Roman Catholic Primary School is the nearest published school at 534 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,080 published events cover 12 months, averaging 90 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 241 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.