Schools
125 open schools are in scope, including 70 primary and 20 secondary schools. Cumnor House School is the nearest published school at 130 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR2 6GP
Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon South
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR2 6GP
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 December 2001
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 6
- Latitude
- 51.347923
- Longitude
- -0.109866
- British National Grid easting
- 531,729
- British National Grid northing
- 162,678
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
- E00005444
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 037C · E01001093
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 037 · E02000230
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
- 125
- Primary
- 70
- Secondary
- 20
- 130 m
Cumnor House School
Other independent school
- 589 m
Christ Church CofE Primary School (Purley)
Voluntary aided school
- 589 m
Harris Academy Purley
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,993
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 996
- Anti social behaviour 383
- Vehicle crime 320
- Other theft 244
- Shoplifting 217
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 47
- Postcode households
- 19
- Residents per household
- 2.5
- CR2 6 residents
- 11,798
24 female, 23 male
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
This postcode contained 0.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CR2 6 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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
34
within 5 km
PARKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
27 WYCHE GROVE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6EX
ODS code H83015
846 m
KESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PURLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSP, 856 BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, CR8 2YL
ODS code H83016
860 m
WOODCOTE MEDICAL
32 FOXLEY LANE, PURLEY, CR8 3EE
ODS code H83024
1.3 km
HALING PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
96 BRIGHTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6AD
ODS code H83031
1.3 km
VIOLET LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
231 VIOLET LANE, CROYDON, CR0 4HN
ODS code H83007
1.4 km
BIRDHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BIRDHURST AVENUE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7DX
ODS code H83627
2.3 km
CROYDON SAS
IMPACT HOUSE, 2 EDRIDGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1FE
ODS code Y08402
2.6 km
FRIENDS ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
49-51 FRIENDS ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1ED
ODS code H83019
2.8 km
QUEENHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
31 QUEENHILL ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8DU
ODS code H83014
3.0 km
FARLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
53 FARLEY ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7NG
ODS code H83004
3.0 km
SHOTFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
JUBILEE HEALTH CENTRE, SHOTFIELD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0HY
ODS code H85115
3.0 km
WALLINGTON FAMILY PRACTICE
WALLINGTON FAMILY PRACT, JUBILEE HEALTH CTR WEST, SHOTFIELD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0HY
ODS code H85653
3.0 km
SELSDON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
97 ADDINGTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8LG
ODS code H83018
3.2 km
MANOR PRACTICE
57 MANOR ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0DE
ODS code H85116
3.2 km
MALDON ROAD SURGERY
35 MALDON ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 8BL
ODS code H85113
3.3 km
PARK ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
1A PARK ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 8AW
ODS code H85022
3.3 km
EAST CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
59 ADDISCOMBE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6SD
ODS code H83044
3.4 km
BRAMLEY AVENUE SURGERY
1B BRAMLEY AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 2DR
ODS code H83052
3.5 km
GREENSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
26 LENNARD ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2UL
ODS code H83631
3.7 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
189A ST. JAMES'S ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2BZ
ODS code H83012
3.9 km
Showing 20 of 34 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Lynscott Way
BCT · Purley
- 0.0 miles
Lynscott Way
BCT · Purley
- 0.2 miles
Blackford Close
BCT · Purley
- 0.2 miles
Blackford Close
BCT · Purley
- 0.3 miles
Wyvern Road
BCT · Purley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 037C, 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
20,627 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 6 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 1
- Medium risk addresses
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
2,993 published events cover 12 months, averaging 249.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 996 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.