Schools
143 open schools are in scope, including 78 primary and 23 secondary schools. Whitgift School is the nearest published school at 333 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR2 6GG
South Croydon · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- South Croydon
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon South
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR2 6GG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 2023
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 6
- Latitude
- 51.356857
- Longitude
- -0.101239
- British National Grid easting
- 532,304
- British National Grid northing
- 163,687
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- South Croydon · E05011484
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Croydon South · E14001187
- Output area
- E00005820
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 028E · E01001173
- 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 CR2
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 143
- Primary
- 78
- Secondary
- 23
- 333 m
Whitgift School
Other independent school
- 355 m
St Giles School
Community special school
- 424 m
Harris Primary Academy Haling Park
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 4,985
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,479
- Anti social behaviour 678
- Shoplifting 614
- Vehicle crime 519
- Other theft 336
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CR2 6 residents
- 11,798
Age bands in CR2 6
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.3%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 35.1%
- Age 45 to 64
- 23.5%
- Age 65 and over
- 12.2%
2,323 residents
1,184 residents
4,230 residents
2,831 residents
1,472 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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
43
within 5 km
HALING PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
96 BRIGHTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6AD
ODS code H83031
221 m
VIOLET LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
231 VIOLET LANE, CROYDON, CR0 4HN
ODS code H83007
609 m
PARKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
27 WYCHE GROVE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6EX
ODS code H83015
717 m
BIRDHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BIRDHURST AVENUE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7DX
ODS code H83627
1.1 km
CROYDON SAS
IMPACT HOUSE, 2 EDRIDGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1FE
ODS code Y08402
1.5 km
FRIENDS ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
49-51 FRIENDS ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1ED
ODS code H83019
1.7 km
KESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PURLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSP, 856 BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, CR8 2YL
ODS code H83016
2.0 km
EAST CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
59 ADDISCOMBE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6SD
ODS code H83044
2.3 km
WOODCOTE MEDICAL
32 FOXLEY LANE, PURLEY, CR8 3EE
ODS code H83024
2.4 km
GREENSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
26 LENNARD ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2UL
ODS code H83631
2.7 km
FARLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
53 FARLEY ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7NG
ODS code H83004
2.7 km
QUEENHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
31 QUEENHILL ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8DU
ODS code H83014
2.7 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
189A ST. JAMES'S ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2BZ
ODS code H83012
2.8 km
SELSDON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
97 ADDINGTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8LG
ODS code H83018
3.0 km
STOVELL HOUSE SURGERY
188 LOWER ADDISCOMBE ROAD, ADDISCOMBE, CROYDON, CR0 6AH
ODS code H83039
3.0 km
MORLAND ROAD SURGERY
1 MORLAND ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6HA
ODS code H83023
3.1 km
RAINBOW HEALTH CENTRE
BROAD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE - ANNEX, 1-13 LODGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2PD
ODS code Y00182
3.1 km
WHITEHORSE PRACTICE
87 WHITEHORSE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2JJ
ODS code H83034
3.2 km
THORNTON ROAD & VALLEY PARK SURGERY
HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE, FRANKLIN WAY, CROYDON, CR0 4YD
ODS code H83051
3.4 km
MALDON ROAD SURGERY
35 MALDON ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 8BL
ODS code H85113
3.4 km
Showing 20 of 43 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
- 0.2 miles
Haling Park Road
BCT · South Croydon
- 0.2 miles
St Giles School
BCT · South Croydon
- 0.2 miles
Haling Park Road
BCT · South Croydon
- 0.2 miles
South Croydon Bus Garage
BCT · South Croydon
- 0.2 miles
St Giles School
BCT · South Croydon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 028E, 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
5 of 10
Overall England rank
13,598 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 7 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 4 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
4,985 published events cover 12 months, averaging 415.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,479 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.