Schools
87 open schools are in scope, including 50 primary and 14 secondary schools. Leesons Primary School is the nearest published school at 366 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BR5 2PH
St Paul's Cray · Bromley · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- St Paul's Cray
- Local authority
- Bromley
- Constituency
- Orpington
- Postcode district
- BR5
- Postcode sector
- BR5 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BR5 2PH
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BR
- Postcode district
- BR5
- Postcode sector
- BR5 2
- Latitude
- 51.396680
- Longitude
- 0.100949
- British National Grid easting
- 546,254
- British National Grid northing
- 168,499
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Bromley · E09000006
- Electoral ward
- St Paul's Cray · E05014007
- Parish or community
- E43000196
- Westminster constituency
- Orpington · E14001417
- Output area
- E00003597
- Lower layer super output area
- Bromley 023C · E01000731
- Middle layer super output area
- Bromley 023 · E02000149
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 87
- Primary
- 50
- Secondary
- 14
- 366 m
Leesons Primary School
Academy converter
- 577 m
Poverest Primary School
Foundation school
- 1.3 km
St Peter and St Paul Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,266
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 913
- Vehicle crime 507
- Anti social behaviour 456
- Shoplifting 260
- Criminal damage and arson 233
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- Postcode households
- 4
- Residents per household
- 2.8
- BR5 2 residents
- 14,221
7 female, 4 male
Age bands in BR5 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.7%
2,821 residents
1,588 residents
3,744 residents
3,381 residents
1,680 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BR5 2 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
POVEREST MEDICAL CENTRE
42 POVEREST ROAD, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 2DQ
ODS code G84007
742 m
CRESCENT SURGERY
38 MARION CRESCENT, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 2DD
ODS code G84630
851 m
BROOMWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
41 BROOMWOOD ROAD, ST. PAULS CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 2JP
ODS code G84019
863 m
ST MARY CRAY PRACTICE
322 HIGH STREET, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 4AR
ODS code G84013
1.4 km
BALLATER SURGERY
108 CHISLEHURST ROAD, ORPINGTON, BR6 0DP
ODS code G84040
1.7 km
DERRY DOWNS SURGERY
29 DERRY DOWNS, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 4DU
ODS code G84005
1.7 km
TUDOR WAY SURGERY
42 TUDOR WAY, PETTS WOOD, ORPINGTON, BR5 1LH
ODS code G84035
1.8 km
WHITEHOUSE SURGERY
123 TOWNCOURT LANE, PETTS WOOD, ORPINGTON, BR5 1EL
ODS code G84621
2.1 km
GILLMANS ROAD SURGERY
1 GILLMANS ROAD, ORPINGTON, BR5 4LA
ODS code G84041
2.3 km
KNOLL MEDICAL PRACTICE
19 HOMEFIELD RISE, ORPINGTON, BR6 0FE
ODS code G84032
2.4 km
SIDCUP MEDICAL CENTRE
2 CHURCH AVENUE, SIDCUP, DA14 6BU
ODS code G83066
3.0 km
THE CHISLEHURST PARTNERSHIP
42 HIGH STREET, CHISLEHURST, BR7 5AQ
ODS code G84010
3.5 km
BARNARD MEDICAL GROUP
43 GRANVILLE ROAD, SIDCUP, DA14 4TA
ODS code G83004
3.5 km
SUMMERCROFT SURGERY
STARTS HILL ROAD, ORPINGTON, BR6 7AR
ODS code G84006
4.4 km
BROMLEY COMMON PRACTICE
CROWN MEDICAL CENTRE, 3 MACKINTOSH STREET, BROMLEY, BR2 9GT
ODS code G84024
4.5 km
SOUTHBOROUGH LANE SURGERY
CROWN MEDICAL CENTRE, 3 MACKINTOSH STREET, BROMLEY, BR2 9GT
ODS code G84023
4.5 km
CHELSFIELD SURGERY
62 WINDSOR DRIVE, CHELSFIELD, ORPINGTON, BR6 6HD
ODS code G84020
4.6 km
NEW ELTHAM AND BLACKFEN MEDICAL CENTRE
52 THAXTED ROAD, NEW ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 3PT
ODS code G83628
4.6 km
BANK HOUSE SURGERY
84 HIGH STREET, FARNBOROUGH, ORPINGTON, BR6 7BA
ODS code G84609
4.7 km
FAMILY SURGERY
7 HIGH STREET, GREEN STREET GREEN, ORPINGTON, BR6 6BG
ODS code G84009
4.8 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Clarendon Way
BCT · St Pauls Cray
- 0.1 miles
Clarendon Way
BCT · St Pauls Cray
- 0.1 miles
Leesons Primary School
BCT · St Pauls Cray
- 0.2 miles
Amherst Drive
BCT · Poverest
- 0.2 miles
Canbury Path
BCT · Poverest
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bromley 023C, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,262 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 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
- 3
- 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
3,266 published events cover 12 months, averaging 272.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 913 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.