Schools
46 open schools are in scope, including 25 primary and 6 secondary schools. Oasis Academy Coulsdon is the nearest published school at 706 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR3 1BU
Old Coulsdon · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Old Coulsdon
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon South
- Postcode district
- CR3
- Postcode sector
- CR3 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR3 1BU
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR3
- Postcode sector
- CR3 1
- Latitude
- 51.298883
- Longitude
- -0.123771
- British National Grid easting
- 530,900
- British National Grid northing
- 157,200
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- Old Coulsdon · E05011474
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Croydon South · E14001187
- Output area
- E00005062
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 044D · E01001021
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 044 · E02000237
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 CR3
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 46
- Primary
- 25
- Secondary
- 6
- 706 m
Oasis Academy Coulsdon
Academy sponsor led
- 747 m
Keston Primary School
Academy converter
- 1.0 km
Coulsdon CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 501
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 182
- Anti social behaviour 91
- Criminal damage and arson 49
- Other theft 39
- Public order 36
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- Postcode sector residents
- Not available
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 not available.
GP practices
5
within 5 km
OLD COULSDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A COURT AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 1HF
ODS code H83013
956 m
BRAMLEY AVENUE SURGERY
1B BRAMLEY AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 2DR
ODS code H83052
3.0 km
KESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PURLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSP, 856 BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, CR8 2YL
ODS code H83016
4.7 km
WOODCOTE MEDICAL
32 FOXLEY LANE, PURLEY, CR8 3EE
ODS code H83024
4.8 km
WARLINGHAM GREEN MED PRAC
1 CHURCH ROAD, WARLINGHAM, CR6 9NW
ODS code H81119
4.9 km
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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Middle Close
BCT · Old Coulsdon
- 0.1 miles
The Admirals Walk
BCT · Old Coulsdon
- 0.1 miles
Ellis Road
BCT · Old Coulsdon
- 0.2 miles
Lacey Green / Ellis Road
BCT · Old Coulsdon
- 0.2 miles
Lacey Green / Goodenough Way
BCT · Old Coulsdon
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 044D, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,921 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 2 of 10
- Crime
- 4 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
501 published events cover 12 months, averaging 41.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 182 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.