Schools
140 open schools are in scope, including 76 primary and 21 secondary schools. Coombe Wood School is the nearest published school at 287 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR2 7GB
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 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR2 7GB
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 June 1999
- Terminated
- 1 October 2000
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 7
- Latitude
- 51.362915
- Longitude
- -0.079499
- British National Grid easting
- 533,800
- British National Grid northing
- 164,400
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
- E00005145
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 029A · E01001036
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 029 · E02000222
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
- 140
- Primary
- 76
- Secondary
- 21
- 287 m
Coombe Wood School
Free schools
- 329 m
Rutherford School
Other independent special school
- 745 m
Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 3,776
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,077
- Shoplifting 543
- Anti social behaviour 495
- Vehicle crime 361
- Other theft 258
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CR2 7 residents
- 8,928
Age bands in CR2 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 33.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.9%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.8%
1,413 residents
728 residents
2,860 residents
2,227 residents
1,358 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.
GP practices
48
within 5 km straight-line
BIRDHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BIRDHURST AVENUE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7DX
ODS code H83627
947 m
FRIENDS ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
49-51 FRIENDS ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1ED
ODS code H83019
1.4 km
HALING PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
96 BRIGHTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6AD
ODS code H83031
1.4 km
EAST CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
59 ADDISCOMBE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6SD
ODS code H83044
1.5 km
CROYDON SAS
IMPACT HOUSE, 2 EDRIDGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1FE
ODS code Y08402
1.5 km
STOVELL HOUSE SURGERY
188 LOWER ADDISCOMBE ROAD, ADDISCOMBE, CROYDON, CR0 6AH
ODS code H83039
1.8 km
PARKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
27 WYCHE GROVE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6EX
ODS code H83015
1.9 km
VIOLET LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
231 VIOLET LANE, CROYDON, CR0 4HN
ODS code H83007
2.0 km
FARLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
53 FARLEY ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7NG
ODS code H83004
2.1 km
MORLAND ROAD SURGERY
1 MORLAND ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6HA
ODS code H83023
2.1 km
QUEENHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
31 QUEENHILL ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8DU
ODS code H83014
2.2 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
189A ST. JAMES'S ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2BZ
ODS code H83012
2.3 km
SELSDON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
97 ADDINGTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8LG
ODS code H83018
2.5 km
GREENSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
26 LENNARD ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2UL
ODS code H83631
2.6 km
ASHBURTON PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
ASHBURTON PARK M.PRACTICE, 416 LOWER ADDISCOMBE ROAD, ADDISCOMBE, CROYDON, CR0 7AG
ODS code H83033
2.6 km
NORTHWAY ROAD SURGERY
139 NORTHWAY ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6JJ
ODS code H83008
2.6 km
HARTLAND WAY SURGERY
1 HARTLAND WAY, CROYDON, CR0 8RG
ODS code H83029
2.7 km
SHIRLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
370 WICKHAM ROAD, SHIRLEY, CROYDON, CR0 8BH
ODS code H83043
2.8 km
WHITEHORSE PRACTICE
87 WHITEHORSE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2JJ
ODS code H83034
2.8 km
RAINBOW HEALTH CENTRE
BROAD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE - ANNEX, 1-13 LODGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2PD
ODS code Y00182
3.0 km
Showing 20 of 48 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Lloyd Park Tram Stop
MET · South Croydon
- 0.1 miles
Lloyd Park Tram Stop
BCT · South Croydon
- 0.1 miles
Lloyd Park Tram Stop
BCT · South Croydon
- 0.1 miles
Lloyd Park Tram Stop
PLT · South Croydon
- 0.1 miles
Lloyd Park Tram Stop
PLT · South Croydon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 029A, 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
29,069 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 7 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
3,776 published events cover 12 months, averaging 314.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,077 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.