Schools
99 open schools are in scope, including 52 primary and 16 secondary schools. St David's School is the nearest published school at 326 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR2 3BD
Purley & Woodcote · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Purley & Woodcote
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon South
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR2 3BD
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 3
- Latitude
- 51.335799
- Longitude
- -0.126573
- British National Grid easting
- 530,600
- British National Grid northing
- 161,300
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- Purley & Woodcote · E05011476
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Croydon South · E14001187
- Output area
- E00005116
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 038B · E01001029
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 038 · E02000231
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
- 99
- Primary
- 52
- Secondary
- 16
- 326 m
St David's School
Other independent school
- 874 m
St Nicholas School
Community special school
- 933 m
Beaumont Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,912
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 637
- Anti social behaviour 264
- Vehicle crime 222
- Other theft 153
- Burglary 121
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
21
within 5 km
WOODCOTE MEDICAL
32 FOXLEY LANE, PURLEY, CR8 3EE
ODS code H83024
717 m
KESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PURLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSP, 856 BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, CR8 2YL
ODS code H83016
1.0 km
BRAMLEY AVENUE SURGERY
1B BRAMLEY AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 2DR
ODS code H83052
1.8 km
PARKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
27 WYCHE GROVE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6EX
ODS code H83015
2.6 km
SHOTFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
JUBILEE HEALTH CENTRE, SHOTFIELD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0HY
ODS code H85115
2.9 km
WALLINGTON FAMILY PRACTICE
WALLINGTON FAMILY PRACT, JUBILEE HEALTH CTR WEST, SHOTFIELD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0HY
ODS code H85653
2.9 km
VIOLET LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
231 VIOLET LANE, CROYDON, CR0 4HN
ODS code H83007
3.0 km
HALING PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
96 BRIGHTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6AD
ODS code H83031
3.1 km
OLD COULSDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A COURT AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 1HF
ODS code H83013
3.3 km
MANOR PRACTICE
57 MANOR ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0DE
ODS code H85116
3.3 km
PARK ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
1A PARK ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 8AW
ODS code H85022
3.5 km
MALDON ROAD SURGERY
35 MALDON ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 8BL
ODS code H85113
3.6 km
BEECHES SURGERY
9 HILL ROAD, CARSHALTON, SM5 3RB
ODS code H85662
4.0 km
BIRDHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BIRDHURST AVENUE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7DX
ODS code H83627
4.0 km
QUEENHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
31 QUEENHILL ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8DU
ODS code H83014
4.3 km
FARLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
53 FARLEY ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7NG
ODS code H83004
4.3 km
CROYDON SAS
IMPACT HOUSE, 2 EDRIDGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1FE
ODS code Y08402
4.3 km
SELSDON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
97 ADDINGTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8LG
ODS code H83018
4.4 km
FRIENDS ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
49-51 FRIENDS ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1ED
ODS code H83019
4.5 km
SUTTON MEDICAL CENTRE
181 CARSHALTON ROAD, SUTTON, SM1 4NG
ODS code H85053
4.6 km
Showing 20 of 21 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Monahan Avenue
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.0 miles
Monahan Avenue
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.1 miles
Hill Road
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.1 miles
Hill Road
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.2 miles
Grovelands Road Woodcote
BCT · Woodcote
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 038B, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
20,465 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 6 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 6 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
1,912 published events cover 12 months, averaging 159.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 637 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.