Schools
74 open schools are in scope, including 47 primary and 10 secondary schools. Riverside School is the nearest published school at 282 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
BR5 3HY
St Paul's Cray · Bromley · England
Updated September 2026
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Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- BR5 3HY
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- BR
- Postcode district
- BR5
- Postcode sector
- BR5 3
- Latitude
- 51.405549
- Longitude
- 0.120810
- British National Grid easting
- 547,607
- British National Grid northing
- 169,525
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
- E00003542
- Lower layer super output area
- Bromley 019E · E01000728
- Middle layer super output area
- Bromley 019 · E02000145
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
10 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Olney, Sandy Lane, St Pauls Cray, Orpington, BR5 3HY | 30 August 2019 | £650,000 |
| The Cottage, Sandy Lane, St Pauls Cray, Orpington, BR5 3HY | 4 March 2016 | £627,000 |
| The Cottage, Sandy Lane, St Pauls Cray, Orpington, BR5 3HY | 23 September 2004 | £385,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 74
- Primary
- 47
- Secondary
- 10
- 282 m
Riverside School
Community special school
- 647 m
Gray's Farm Primary Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 940 m
St Paul's Cray Church of England Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,834
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 778
- Vehicle crime 408
- Anti social behaviour 346
- Shoplifting 294
- Criminal damage and arson 204
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 16
- Postcode households
- 7
- Residents per household
- 2.3
- BR5 3 residents
- 11,241
9 female, 7 male
Age bands in BR5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 22.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.2%
- Age 25 to 44
- 28%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.2%
2,732 residents
1,355 residents
3,392 residents
3,054 residents
1,602 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider BR5 3 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+
- 42.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 42.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 42.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 42.9%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 42.9%
- 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
17
within 5 km straight-line
BROOMWOOD HEALTH CENTRE
41 BROOMWOOD ROAD, ST. PAULS CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 2JP
ODS code G84019
897 m
CRESCENT SURGERY
38 MARION CRESCENT, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 2DD
ODS code G84630
2.0 km
ST MARY CRAY PRACTICE
322 HIGH STREET, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 4AR
ODS code G84013
2.1 km
POVEREST MEDICAL CENTRE
42 POVEREST ROAD, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 2DQ
ODS code G84007
2.2 km
SIDCUP MEDICAL CENTRE
2 CHURCH AVENUE, SIDCUP, DA14 6BU
ODS code G83066
2.3 km
DERRY DOWNS SURGERY
29 DERRY DOWNS, ST. MARY CRAY, ORPINGTON, BR5 4DU
ODS code G84005
2.3 km
BARNARD MEDICAL GROUP
43 GRANVILLE ROAD, SIDCUP, DA14 4TA
ODS code G83004
2.7 km
BALLATER SURGERY
108 CHISLEHURST ROAD, ORPINGTON, BR6 0DP
ODS code G84040
3.2 km
GILLMANS ROAD SURGERY
1 GILLMANS ROAD, ORPINGTON, BR5 4LA
ODS code G84041
3.2 km
TUDOR WAY SURGERY
42 TUDOR WAY, PETTS WOOD, ORPINGTON, BR5 1LH
ODS code G84035
3.5 km
KNOLL MEDICAL PRACTICE
19 HOMEFIELD RISE, ORPINGTON, BR6 0FE
ODS code G84032
3.6 km
SWANLEY MEDICAL PRACTICE
26-28 SWANLEY CENTRE, SWANLEY, BR8 7AH
ODS code G82028
3.8 km
WHITEHOUSE SURGERY
123 TOWNCOURT LANE, PETTS WOOD, ORPINGTON, BR5 1EL
ODS code G84621
3.8 km
THE CHISLEHURST PARTNERSHIP
42 HIGH STREET, CHISLEHURST, BR7 5AQ
ODS code G84010
4.1 km
WOODLANDS SURGERY
146 HALFWAY STREET, SIDCUP, DA15 8DF
ODS code G83057
4.4 km
PLAS MEDDYG SURGERY
40 PARKHILL ROAD, BEXLEY, DA5 1HU
ODS code G83029
4.5 km
NEW ELTHAM AND BLACKFEN MEDICAL CENTRE
52 THAXTED ROAD, NEW ELTHAM, LONDON, SE9 3PT
ODS code G83628
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Walsingham Road (BR5)
BCT · St Pauls Cray
- 0.3 miles
Walsingham Road (BR5)
BCT · St Pauls Cray
- 0.3 miles
Chalk Pit Avenue
BCT · St Mary Cray
- 0.4 miles
Chalk Pit Avenue
BCT · St Mary Cray
- 0.4 miles
Main Road
BCT · St Mary Cray
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Bromley 019E, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,683 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
- Possible
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
2,834 published events cover 12 months, averaging 236.167 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 778 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.