Schools
83 open schools are in scope, including 46 primary and 14 secondary schools. Atwood Primary School is the nearest published school at 189 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR2 9YQ
Sanderstead · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Sanderstead
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon South
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 9
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR2 9YQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 September 1991
- Terminated
- 1 December 1992
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR2
- Postcode sector
- CR2 9
- Latitude
- 51.329594
- Longitude
- -0.076585
- British National Grid easting
- 534,100
- British National Grid northing
- 160,700
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- Sanderstead · E05011478
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Croydon South · E14001187
- Output area
- E00005496
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 039A · E01001103
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 039 · E02000232
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
- 83
- Primary
- 46
- Secondary
- 14
- 189 m
Atwood Primary School
Academy converter
- 463 m
Gresham Primary School
Community school
- 869 m
Olympus
Other independent special school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 593
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 224
- Vehicle crime 97
- Anti social behaviour 75
- Other theft 49
- Burglary 40
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CR2 9 residents
- 7,116
Age bands in CR2 9
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 21.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 21.4%
1,291 residents
758 residents
1,530 residents
1,991 residents
1,520 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
18
within 5 km straight-line
SELSDON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
97 ADDINGTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8LG
ODS code H83018
1.7 km
QUEENHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
31 QUEENHILL ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8DU
ODS code H83014
1.8 km
FARLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
53 FARLEY ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7NG
ODS code H83004
1.9 km
WARLINGHAM GREEN MED PRAC
1 CHURCH ROAD, WARLINGHAM, CR6 9NW
ODS code H81119
2.4 km
PARKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
27 WYCHE GROVE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6EX
ODS code H83015
2.8 km
KESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PURLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSP, 856 BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, CR8 2YL
ODS code H83016
2.9 km
ELIZABETH HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
515 LIMPSFIELD ROAD, WARLINGHAM, CR6 9LF
ODS code H81116
3.0 km
HALING PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
96 BRIGHTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6AD
ODS code H83031
3.4 km
WOODCOTE MEDICAL
32 FOXLEY LANE, PURLEY, CR8 3EE
ODS code H83024
3.7 km
OLD COULSDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A COURT AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 1HF
ODS code H83013
3.8 km
VIOLET LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
231 VIOLET LANE, CROYDON, CR0 4HN
ODS code H83007
4.1 km
BIRDHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BIRDHURST AVENUE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7DX
ODS code H83627
4.1 km
ADDINGTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PARKWAY, NEW ADDINGTON, CROYDON, CR0 0JA
ODS code H83028
4.4 km
NEW ADDINGTON GROUP PRACTICE
PARKWAY HEALTH CENTRE, PARKWAY, NEW ADDINGTON, CROYDON, CR0 0JA
ODS code H83006
4.4 km
BRAMLEY AVENUE SURGERY
1B BRAMLEY AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 2DR
ODS code H83052
4.6 km
CROYDON SAS
IMPACT HOUSE, 2 EDRIDGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1FE
ODS code Y08402
4.8 km
FRIENDS ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
49-51 FRIENDS ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1ED
ODS code H83019
4.8 km
HEADLEY DRIVE SURGERY
117A HEADLEY DRIVE, NEW ADDINGTON, CROYDON, CR0 0QL
ODS code H83049
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Sanderstead Recreation Ground
BCT · Sanderstead
- 0.1 miles
Sanderstead Methodist Church
BCT · Sanderstead
- 0.1 miles
Sanderstead Methodist Church
BCT · Sanderstead
- 0.2 miles
Sanderstead Recreation Ground
BCT · Sanderstead
- 0.3 miles
Cranleigh Gardens (CR2)
BCT · Sanderstead
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 039A, 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
31,841 of 33,755
- Income
- 10 of 10
- Employment
- 8 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 10 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
593 published events cover 12 months, averaging 49.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 224 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.