Schools
141 open schools are in scope, including 77 primary and 21 secondary schools. Elmhurst School Ltd is the nearest published school at 293 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR2 7YH
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 7YH
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 July 2001
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 7
- Latitude
- 51.362672
- Longitude
- -0.088286
- British National Grid easting
- 533,189
- British National Grid northing
- 164,357
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
- E00005147
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 047C · E01001035
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 047 · E02006988
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
- 141
- Primary
- 77
- Secondary
- 21
- 293 m
Elmhurst School Ltd
Other independent school
- 576 m
St Peter's Primary School
Academy converter
- 585 m
Aspire Learning
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,207
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 1,804
- Anti social behaviour 793
- Shoplifting 667
- Vehicle crime 538
- Other theft 473
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
44
within 5 km straight-line
BIRDHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BIRDHURST AVENUE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7DX
ODS code H83627
412 m
HALING PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
96 BRIGHTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6AD
ODS code H83031
924 m
FRIENDS ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
49-51 FRIENDS ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1ED
ODS code H83019
1.1 km
CROYDON SAS
IMPACT HOUSE, 2 EDRIDGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1FE
ODS code Y08402
1.1 km
VIOLET LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
231 VIOLET LANE, CROYDON, CR0 4HN
ODS code H83007
1.4 km
EAST CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
59 ADDISCOMBE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6SD
ODS code H83044
1.4 km
PARKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
27 WYCHE GROVE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6EX
ODS code H83015
1.5 km
STOVELL HOUSE SURGERY
188 LOWER ADDISCOMBE ROAD, ADDISCOMBE, CROYDON, CR0 6AH
ODS code H83039
2.0 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
189A ST. JAMES'S ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2BZ
ODS code H83012
2.2 km
MORLAND ROAD SURGERY
1 MORLAND ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6HA
ODS code H83023
2.2 km
GREENSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
26 LENNARD ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2UL
ODS code H83631
2.3 km
FARLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
53 FARLEY ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7NG
ODS code H83004
2.4 km
QUEENHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
31 QUEENHILL ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8DU
ODS code H83014
2.5 km
WHITEHORSE PRACTICE
87 WHITEHORSE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2JJ
ODS code H83034
2.7 km
NORTHWAY ROAD SURGERY
139 NORTHWAY ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6JJ
ODS code H83008
2.7 km
RAINBOW HEALTH CENTRE
BROAD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE - ANNEX, 1-13 LODGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2PD
ODS code Y00182
2.7 km
SELSDON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
97 ADDINGTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8LG
ODS code H83018
2.8 km
ASHBURTON PARK MEDICAL CENTRE
ASHBURTON PARK M.PRACTICE, 416 LOWER ADDISCOMBE ROAD, ADDISCOMBE, CROYDON, CR0 7AG
ODS code H83033
2.9 km
KESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PURLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSP, 856 BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, CR8 2YL
ODS code H83016
3.0 km
SELHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
27 SELHURST ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, LONDON, SE25 5QA
ODS code H83611
3.0 km
Showing 20 of 44 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Birdhurst Road / South Croydon Station
BCT · South Croydon
- 0.2 miles
Elmhurst School
BCT · South Croydon
- 0.2 miles
Birdhurst Road / South Croydon Station
BCT · South Croydon
- 0.2 miles
Campden Road
BCT · South Croydon
- 0.2 miles
Elmhurst School
BCT · South Croydon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 047C, 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
15,780 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 8 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 5 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
6,207 published events cover 12 months, averaging 517.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 1,804 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.