Schools
50 open schools are in scope, including 27 primary and 6 secondary schools. Oasis Academy Coulsdon is the nearest published school at 791 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR2 5EP
Old Coulsdon · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Old Coulsdon
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon South
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 5
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR2 5EP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 5
- Latitude
- 51.303054
- Longitude
- -0.103517
- British National Grid easting
- 532,300
- British National Grid northing
- 157,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- Old Coulsdon · E05011474
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Croydon South · E14001187
- Output area
- E00005087
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 044E · E01001022
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 044 · E02000237
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
- 50
- Primary
- 27
- Secondary
- 6
- 791 m
Oasis Academy Coulsdon
Academy sponsor led
- 959 m
OneSchool Global Kenley Campus
Other independent school
- 1.0 km
Keston Primary School
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Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 852
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 323
- Anti social behaviour 152
- Public order 77
- Criminal damage and arson 70
- Other theft 63
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
OLD COULSDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A COURT AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 1HF
ODS code H83013
1.1 km
WARLINGHAM GREEN MED PRAC
1 CHURCH ROAD, WARLINGHAM, CR6 9NW
ODS code H81119
3.4 km
BRAMLEY AVENUE SURGERY
1B BRAMLEY AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 2DR
ODS code H83052
3.5 km
ELIZABETH HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
515 LIMPSFIELD ROAD, WARLINGHAM, CR6 9LF
ODS code H81116
3.8 km
KESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PURLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSP, 856 BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, CR8 2YL
ODS code H83016
4.3 km
WOODCOTE MEDICAL
32 FOXLEY LANE, PURLEY, CR8 3EE
ODS code H83024
4.6 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Shirley Avenue / Caterham Drive
BCT · Old Coulsdon
- 0.1 miles
Shirley Avenue / Caterham Drive
BCT · Old Coulsdon
- 0.2 miles
Caterham Drive /Waddington Ave
BCT · Old Coulsdon
- 0.2 miles
Carew Close
BCT · Old Coulsdon
- 0.2 miles
Caterham Drive /Waddington Ave
BCT · Old Coulsdon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 044E, 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
9 of 10
Overall England rank
30,014 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
852 published events cover 12 months, averaging 71 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 323 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.