Schools
88 open schools are in scope, including 48 primary and 13 secondary schools. Riddlesdown Collegiate is the nearest published school at 549 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR2 1EQ
Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon South
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR2 1EQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 1
- Latitude
- 51.328976
- Longitude
- -0.093836
- British National Grid easting
- 532,900
- British National Grid northing
- 160,600
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown · E05011477
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Croydon South · E14001187
- Output area
- E00005494
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 042D · E01001104
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 042 · E02000235
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 CR2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 88
- Primary
- 48
- Secondary
- 13
- 549 m
Riddlesdown Collegiate
Academy converter
- 728 m
Harris Primary Academy Kenley
Academy sponsor led
- 1.1 km
Abingdon House School Purley
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 927
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 292
- Vehicle crime 134
- Anti social behaviour 126
- Shoplifting 99
- Burglary 69
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
15
within 5 km straight-line
KESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PURLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSP, 856 BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, CR8 2YL
ODS code H83016
1.9 km
PARKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
27 WYCHE GROVE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6EX
ODS code H83015
2.4 km
SELSDON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
97 ADDINGTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8LG
ODS code H83018
2.5 km
QUEENHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
31 QUEENHILL ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8DU
ODS code H83014
2.6 km
FARLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
53 FARLEY ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7NG
ODS code H83004
2.7 km
WOODCOTE MEDICAL
32 FOXLEY LANE, PURLEY, CR8 3EE
ODS code H83024
2.7 km
OLD COULSDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A COURT AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 1HF
ODS code H83013
3.0 km
HALING PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
96 BRIGHTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6AD
ODS code H83031
3.1 km
WARLINGHAM GREEN MED PRAC
1 CHURCH ROAD, WARLINGHAM, CR6 9NW
ODS code H81119
3.2 km
BRAMLEY AVENUE SURGERY
1B BRAMLEY AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 2DR
ODS code H83052
3.4 km
VIOLET LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
231 VIOLET LANE, CROYDON, CR0 4HN
ODS code H83007
3.6 km
ELIZABETH HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
515 LIMPSFIELD ROAD, WARLINGHAM, CR6 9LF
ODS code H81116
3.8 km
BIRDHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BIRDHURST AVENUE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7DX
ODS code H83627
4.0 km
CROYDON SAS
IMPACT HOUSE, 2 EDRIDGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1FE
ODS code Y08402
4.6 km
FRIENDS ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
49-51 FRIENDS ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1ED
ODS code H83019
4.7 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lower Barn Road
BCT · Kenley
- 0.1 miles
Lower Barn Road
BCT · Kenley
- 0.2 miles
Riddlesdown Mitchley Avenue
BCT · Kenley
- 0.2 miles
Riddlesdown Mitchley Avenue
BCT · Kenley
- 0.2 miles
Riddlesdown School / Riddlesdown Stn
BCT · Kenley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 042D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,030 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
927 published events cover 12 months, averaging 77.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 292 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.