Schools
54 open schools are in scope, including 30 primary and 10 secondary schools. Oasis Academy Byron is the nearest published school at 428 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR3 1DJ
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 1DJ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR3
- Postcode sector
- CR3 1
- Latitude
- 51.311625
- Longitude
- -0.133297
- British National Grid easting
- 530,200
- British National Grid northing
- 158,600
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
- E00005073
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 044B · E01001019
- 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
- 54
- Primary
- 30
- Secondary
- 10
- 428 m
Oasis Academy Byron
Academy converter
- 771 m
Coulsdon CofE Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 1.1 km
Smitham Primary School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,227
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 387
- Anti social behaviour 207
- Shoplifting 119
- Vehicle crime 108
- Other theft 89
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
6
within 5 km straight-line
OLD COULSDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A COURT AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 1HF
ODS code H83013
1.2 km
BRAMLEY AVENUE SURGERY
1B BRAMLEY AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 2DR
ODS code H83052
1.4 km
WOODCOTE MEDICAL
32 FOXLEY LANE, PURLEY, CR8 3EE
ODS code H83024
3.4 km
KESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PURLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSP, 856 BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, CR8 2YL
ODS code H83016
3.5 km
LONGCROFT CLINIC
5 WOODMANSTERNE LANE, BANSTEAD, SM7 3HH
ODS code H81080
4.4 km
PARKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
27 WYCHE GROVE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6EX
ODS code H83015
5.0 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Bradmore Way
BCT · Coulsdon South
- 0.0 miles
Bradmore Way
BCT · Coulsdon South
- 0.1 miles
Chaldon Way Gardens
BCT · Coulsdon South
- 0.1 miles
Chaldon Way Gardens
BCT · Coulsdon South
- 0.1 miles
Marlpit Lane
BCT · Coulsdon South
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 044B, 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
31,614 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 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
1,227 published events cover 12 months, averaging 102.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 387 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.