Schools
140 open schools are in scope, including 77 primary and 22 secondary schools. Harris Academy Purley is the nearest published school at 639 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR0 4AR
Waddon · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Waddon
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon West
- Postcode district
- CR0
- Postcode sector
- CR0 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR0 4AR
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1996
- Terminated
- 1 March 2010
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR0
- Postcode sector
- CR0 4
- Latitude
- 51.355514
- Longitude
- -0.116606
- British National Grid easting
- 531,238
- British National Grid northing
- 163,510
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- Waddon · E05011487
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Croydon West · E14001188
- Output area
- E00005843
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 028D · E01001172
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 028 · E02000221
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 CR0
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 140
- Primary
- 77
- Secondary
- 22
- 639 m
Harris Academy Purley
Academy sponsor led
- 686 m
Regina Coeli Catholic Primary School
Academy converter
- 733 m
Aerodrome Primary Academy
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,634
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,231
- Anti social behaviour 522
- Vehicle crime 352
- Shoplifting 266
- Other theft 262
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CR0 4 residents
- 19,767
Age bands in CR0 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 21.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.8%
- Age 45 to 64
- 24.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 10.5%
4,263 residents
2,374 residents
6,388 residents
4,930 residents
2,105 residents
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.
GP practices
40
within 5 km straight-line
VIOLET LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
231 VIOLET LANE, CROYDON, CR0 4HN
ODS code H83007
809 m
HALING PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
96 BRIGHTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6AD
ODS code H83031
1.3 km
PARKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
27 WYCHE GROVE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6EX
ODS code H83015
1.4 km
WOODCOTE MEDICAL
32 FOXLEY LANE, PURLEY, CR8 3EE
ODS code H83024
1.6 km
KESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PURLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSP, 856 BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, CR8 2YL
ODS code H83016
1.7 km
BIRDHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BIRDHURST AVENUE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7DX
ODS code H83627
2.0 km
CROYDON SAS
IMPACT HOUSE, 2 EDRIDGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1FE
ODS code Y08402
2.1 km
FRIENDS ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
49-51 FRIENDS ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1ED
ODS code H83019
2.3 km
SHOTFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
JUBILEE HEALTH CENTRE, SHOTFIELD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0HY
ODS code H85115
2.4 km
WALLINGTON FAMILY PRACTICE
WALLINGTON FAMILY PRACT, JUBILEE HEALTH CTR WEST, SHOTFIELD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0HY
ODS code H85653
2.4 km
MALDON ROAD SURGERY
35 MALDON ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 8BL
ODS code H85113
2.4 km
MANOR PRACTICE
57 MANOR ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0DE
ODS code H85116
2.5 km
PARK ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
1A PARK ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 8AW
ODS code H85022
2.5 km
GREENSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
26 LENNARD ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2UL
ODS code H83631
3.0 km
EAST CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
59 ADDISCOMBE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6SD
ODS code H83044
3.0 km
THORNTON ROAD & VALLEY PARK SURGERY
HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE, FRANKLIN WAY, CROYDON, CR0 4YD
ODS code H83051
3.0 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
189A ST. JAMES'S ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2BZ
ODS code H83012
3.4 km
RAINBOW HEALTH CENTRE
BROAD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE - ANNEX, 1-13 LODGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2PD
ODS code Y00182
3.4 km
WHITEHORSE PRACTICE
87 WHITEHORSE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2JJ
ODS code H83034
3.6 km
FARLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
53 FARLEY ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7NG
ODS code H83004
3.7 km
Showing 20 of 40 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Airport House
BCT · Waddon
- 0.1 miles
The Colonnades Croydon Airport
BCT · Waddon
- 0.1 miles
The Colonnades Croydon Airport
BCT · Waddon
- 0.1 miles
Colonnades Leisure Park
BCT · Waddon
- 0.2 miles
Imperial Way
BCT · Waddon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 028D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,736 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 3 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
3,634 published events cover 12 months, averaging 302.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,231 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.