Schools
204 open schools are in scope, including 122 primary and 28 secondary schools. Gonville Academy is the nearest published school at 246 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR4 6DN
West Thornton · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- West Thornton
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon West
- Postcode district
- CR4
- Postcode sector
- CR4 6
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR4 6DN
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR4
- Postcode sector
- CR4 6
- Latitude
- 51.396035
- Longitude
- -0.125550
- British National Grid easting
- 530,500
- British National Grid northing
- 168,000
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- West Thornton · E05011488
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Croydon West · E14001188
- Output area
- E00005886
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 011F · E01001184
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 011 · E02000204
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 CR4
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 204
- Primary
- 122
- Secondary
- 28
- 246 m
Gonville Academy
Academy converter
- 639 m
The Archbishop Lanfranc Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 759 m
Paxton Academy Sports And Science
Free schools
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,393
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,311
- Anti social behaviour 871
- Vehicle crime 694
- Other theft 422
- Criminal damage and arson 396
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
76
within 5 km
LEANDER FAMILY PRACTICE
949 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6JE
ODS code H83042
671 m
WIDE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WIDE WAY, MITCHAM, CR4 1BP
ODS code H85029
893 m
NORBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2B POLLARDS HILL NORTH, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 4NL
ODS code H83009
963 m
BRIGSTOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
141 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JN
ODS code H83017
1.1 km
EVERSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
501 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6AR
ODS code H83020
1.3 km
LONDON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
515 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6AR
ODS code H83021
1.3 km
NORTH CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
518 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7HQ
ODS code H83011
1.3 km
YOUR FAMILY PRACTICE
83 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JH
ODS code H83608
1.5 km
TAMWORTH HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
341 TAMWORTH LANE, MITCHAM, CR4 1DL
ODS code H85033
1.6 km
THORNTON ROAD & VALLEY PARK SURGERY
HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE, FRANKLIN WAY, CROYDON, CR0 4YD
ODS code H83051
1.6 km
FAIRVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
69 FAIRVIEW ROAD, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 5PX
ODS code H83624
1.6 km
PARCHMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
97 PARCHMORE ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8LY
ODS code H83053
1.8 km
RAINBOW HEALTH CENTRE
BROAD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE - ANNEX, 1-13 LODGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2PD
ODS code Y00182
1.9 km
THORNTON HEATH MEDICAL CENTRE
61A GILLETT ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8RL
ODS code H83022
2.1 km
MERSHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
30 NORBURY ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8JN
ODS code H83609
2.2 km
WHITEHORSE PRACTICE
87 WHITEHORSE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2JJ
ODS code H83034
2.3 km
GREENSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
26 LENNARD ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2UL
ODS code H83631
2.3 km
THE VALE SURGERY
STREATHAM VALE, LONDON, SW16 5SE
ODS code G85096
2.5 km
STREATHAM COMMON PRACTICE
293 STREATHAM HIGH ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 3NP
ODS code G85014
2.5 km
SELHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
27 SELHURST ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, LONDON, SE25 5QA
ODS code H83611
2.6 km
Showing 20 of 76 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Recreation Way
BCT · Mitcham
- 0.2 miles
Silverleigh Road
BCT · Norbury
- 0.2 miles
Leicester Avenue
BCT · Mitcham
- 0.2 miles
Yorkshire Road
BCT · Mitcham
- 0.2 miles
South Lodge Avenue / Yorkshire Road
BCT · Mitcham
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 011F, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
17,774 of 33,755
- Income
- 4 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 6 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
6,393 published events cover 12 months, averaging 532.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,311 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.