Schools
196 open schools are in scope, including 117 primary and 27 secondary schools. Gonville Academy is the nearest published school at 129 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR4 6DP
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 6DP
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR4
- Postcode sector
- CR4 6
- Latitude
- 51.394168
- Longitude
- -0.121314
- British National Grid easting
- 530,800
- British National Grid northing
- 167,800
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
- E00005895
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 011A · E01001174
- 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
- 196
- Primary
- 117
- Secondary
- 27
- 129 m
Gonville Academy
Academy converter
- 452 m
Paxton Academy Sports And Science
Free schools
- 721 m
The Archbishop Lanfranc Academy
Academy sponsor led
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,400
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,672
- Anti social behaviour 955
- Vehicle crime 825
- Other theft 483
- Public order 472
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
73
within 5 km
LEANDER FAMILY PRACTICE
949 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6JE
ODS code H83042
620 m
BRIGSTOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
141 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JN
ODS code H83017
838 m
EVERSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
501 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6AR
ODS code H83020
909 m
LONDON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
515 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6AR
ODS code H83021
909 m
NORTH CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
518 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7HQ
ODS code H83011
961 m
NORBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2B POLLARDS HILL NORTH, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 4NL
ODS code H83009
1.2 km
WIDE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WIDE WAY, MITCHAM, CR4 1BP
ODS code H85029
1.2 km
YOUR FAMILY PRACTICE
83 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JH
ODS code H83608
1.3 km
THORNTON ROAD & VALLEY PARK SURGERY
HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE, FRANKLIN WAY, CROYDON, CR0 4YD
ODS code H83051
1.4 km
RAINBOW HEALTH CENTRE
BROAD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE - ANNEX, 1-13 LODGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2PD
ODS code Y00182
1.5 km
PARCHMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
97 PARCHMORE ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8LY
ODS code H83053
1.7 km
THORNTON HEATH MEDICAL CENTRE
61A GILLETT ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8RL
ODS code H83022
1.8 km
FAIRVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
69 FAIRVIEW ROAD, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 5PX
ODS code H83624
1.9 km
TAMWORTH HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
341 TAMWORTH LANE, MITCHAM, CR4 1DL
ODS code H85033
1.9 km
WHITEHORSE PRACTICE
87 WHITEHORSE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2JJ
ODS code H83034
1.9 km
GREENSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
26 LENNARD ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2UL
ODS code H83631
2.0 km
MERSHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
30 NORBURY ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8JN
ODS code H83609
2.1 km
SELHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
27 SELHURST ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, LONDON, SE25 5QA
ODS code H83611
2.3 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
189A ST. JAMES'S ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2BZ
ODS code H83012
2.4 km
STREATHAM COMMON PRACTICE
293 STREATHAM HIGH ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 3NP
ODS code G85014
2.7 km
Showing 20 of 73 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
Croydon Crematorium
BCT · Broad Green
- 0.2 miles
Croydon Crematorium
BCT · Broad Green
- 0.3 miles
Thornton Heath Pond / Fairlands Avenue
BCT · Broad Green
- 0.3 miles
Thornton Heath Pond / Fairlands Avenue
BCT · Broad Green
- 0.3 miles
Silverleigh Road
BCT · Norbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 011A, 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
4 of 10
Overall England rank
13,494 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 4 of 10
- Education and skills
- 5 of 10
- Health and disability
- 7 of 10
- Crime
- 5 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
7,400 published events cover 12 months, averaging 616.667 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,672 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.