Schools
133 open schools are in scope, including 71 primary and 19 secondary schools. Rutherford School is the nearest published school at 306 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR2 7JA
South Croydon · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- South Croydon
- 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 7JA
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 7
- Latitude
- 51.358531
- Longitude
- -0.076507
- British National Grid easting
- 534,021
- British National Grid northing
- 163,918
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
- E00005595
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 033B · E01001122
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 033 · E02000226
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
Property
3 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| The Boundary, Ballards Farm Road, South Croydon, CR2 7JA | 23 November 2012 | £580,000 |
| The Boundary, Ballards Farm Road, South Croydon, CR2 7JA | 13 October 2011 | £400,000 |
| The Boundary, Ballards Farm Road, South Croydon, CR2 7JA | 7 April 2008 | £750,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 133
- Primary
- 71
- Secondary
- 19
- 306 m
Rutherford School
Other independent special school
- 527 m
Coombe Wood School
Free schools
- 761 m
Royal Russell School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,575
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 459
- Anti social behaviour 242
- Vehicle crime 224
- Other theft 107
- Burglary 106
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 8
- Postcode households
- 3
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- CR2 7 residents
- 8,928
4 female, 4 male
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
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CR2 7 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
40
within 5 km
BIRDHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BIRDHURST AVENUE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7DX
ODS code H83627
1.3 km
HALING PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
96 BRIGHTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6AD
ODS code H83031
1.5 km
FARLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
53 FARLEY ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7NG
ODS code H83004
1.6 km
QUEENHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
31 QUEENHILL ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8DU
ODS code H83014
1.7 km
PARKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
27 WYCHE GROVE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6EX
ODS code H83015
1.8 km
FRIENDS ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
49-51 FRIENDS ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1ED
ODS code H83019
1.9 km
SELSDON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
97 ADDINGTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8LG
ODS code H83018
2.0 km
CROYDON SAS
IMPACT HOUSE, 2 EDRIDGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1FE
ODS code Y08402
2.0 km
EAST CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
59 ADDISCOMBE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6SD
ODS code H83044
2.0 km
VIOLET LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
231 VIOLET LANE, CROYDON, CR0 4HN
ODS code H83007
2.2 km
STOVELL HOUSE SURGERY
188 LOWER ADDISCOMBE ROAD, ADDISCOMBE, CROYDON, CR0 6AH
ODS code H83039
2.3 km
MORLAND ROAD SURGERY
1 MORLAND ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6HA
ODS code H83023
2.6 km
HARTLAND WAY SURGERY
1 HARTLAND WAY, CROYDON, CR0 8RG
ODS code H83029
2.8 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
189A ST. JAMES'S ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2BZ
ODS code H83012
2.8 km
SHIRLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
370 WICKHAM ROAD, SHIRLEY, CROYDON, CR0 8BH
ODS code H83043
2.9 km
ASHBURTON PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
ASHBURTON PARK M.PRACTICE, 416 LOWER ADDISCOMBE ROAD, ADDISCOMBE, CROYDON, CR0 7AG
ODS code H83033
3.0 km
GREENSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
26 LENNARD ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2UL
ODS code H83631
3.1 km
NORTHWAY ROAD SURGERY
139 NORTHWAY ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6JJ
ODS code H83008
3.1 km
KESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PURLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSP, 856 BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, CR8 2YL
ODS code H83016
3.3 km
WHITEHORSE PRACTICE
87 WHITEHORSE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2JJ
ODS code H83034
3.4 km
Showing 20 of 40 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
- 0.1 miles
Manor Way (CR2)
BCT · South Croydon
- 0.1 miles
Manor Way (CR2)
BCT · South Croydon
- 0.2 miles
Melville Avenue
BCT · South Croydon
- 0.2 miles
Melville Avenue
BCT · South Croydon
- 0.2 miles
Ballards Way
BCT · Selsdon/South Croydon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 033B, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
32,521 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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.
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
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- 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
1,575 published events cover 12 months, averaging 131.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 459 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.