Schools
74 open schools are in scope, including 41 primary and 12 secondary schools. Riddlesdown Collegiate is the nearest published school at 761 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR2 5BQ
Kenley · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
Compare this postcodeLocation overview
Drag to pan. Use + or - to zoom. Open larger map
- Ward
- Kenley
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon South
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR2 5BQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 5
- Latitude
- 51.320911
- Longitude
- -0.095605
- British National Grid easting
- 532,800
- British National Grid northing
- 159,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- Kenley · E05011469
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Croydon South · E14001187
- Output area
- E00005360
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 042A · E01001068
- 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
- 74
- Primary
- 41
- Secondary
- 12
- 761 m
Riddlesdown Collegiate
Academy converter
- 787 m
Harris Primary Academy Kenley
Academy sponsor led
- 876 m
Kenley Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 784
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 245
- Anti social behaviour 112
- Shoplifting 100
- Vehicle crime 88
- Burglary 53
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
13
within 5 km
OLD COULSDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A COURT AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 1HF
ODS code H83013
2.2 km
KESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PURLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSP, 856 BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, CR8 2YL
ODS code H83016
2.6 km
WARLINGHAM GREEN MED PRAC
1 CHURCH ROAD, WARLINGHAM, CR6 9NW
ODS code H81119
2.8 km
WOODCOTE MEDICAL
32 FOXLEY LANE, PURLEY, CR8 3EE
ODS code H83024
3.2 km
BRAMLEY AVENUE SURGERY
1B BRAMLEY AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 2DR
ODS code H83052
3.2 km
SELSDON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
97 ADDINGTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8LG
ODS code H83018
3.2 km
PARKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
27 WYCHE GROVE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6EX
ODS code H83015
3.3 km
QUEENHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
31 QUEENHILL ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8DU
ODS code H83014
3.3 km
FARLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
53 FARLEY ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7NG
ODS code H83004
3.4 km
ELIZABETH HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
515 LIMPSFIELD ROAD, WARLINGHAM, CR6 9LF
ODS code H81116
3.5 km
HALING PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
96 BRIGHTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6AD
ODS code H83031
4.0 km
VIOLET LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
231 VIOLET LANE, CROYDON, CR0 4HN
ODS code H83007
4.5 km
BIRDHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BIRDHURST AVENUE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7DX
ODS code H83627
4.9 km
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
- 0.0 miles
Bader Close
BCT · Kenley
- 0.1 miles
Hazeldene Court
BCT · Kenley
- 0.1 miles
Hawkhirst Road
BCT · Kenley
- 0.1 miles
Hawkhirst Road
BCT · Kenley
- 0.2 miles
Garston Lane
BCT · Kenley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 042A, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
18,625 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 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
784 published events cover 12 months, averaging 65.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 245 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.