Schools
201 open schools are in scope, including 117 primary and 28 secondary schools. Gonville Academy is the nearest published school at 294 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR4 6JQ
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 6JQ
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- 1 December 1990
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR4
- Postcode sector
- CR4 6
- Latitude
- 51.397786
- Longitude
- -0.122604
- British National Grid easting
- 530,700
- British National Grid northing
- 168,200
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
- E00005884
- 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
- 201
- Primary
- 117
- Secondary
- 28
- 294 m
Gonville Academy
Academy converter
- 576 m
Winterbourne Boys' Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 576 m
Winterbourne Junior Girls' School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,169
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,514
- Anti social behaviour 933
- Vehicle crime 762
- Other theft 451
- Criminal damage and arson 441
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
79
within 5 km straight-line
LEANDER FAMILY PRACTICE
949 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6JE
ODS code H83042
400 m
NORBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2B POLLARDS HILL NORTH, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 4NL
ODS code H83009
748 m
WIDE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WIDE WAY, MITCHAM, CR4 1BP
ODS code H85029
938 m
BRIGSTOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
141 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JN
ODS code H83017
969 m
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
1.3 km
FAIRVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
69 FAIRVIEW ROAD, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 5PX
ODS code H83624
1.4 km
PARCHMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
97 PARCHMORE ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8LY
ODS code H83053
1.6 km
TAMWORTH HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
341 TAMWORTH LANE, MITCHAM, CR4 1DL
ODS code H85033
1.7 km
THORNTON ROAD & VALLEY PARK SURGERY
HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE, FRANKLIN WAY, CROYDON, CR0 4YD
ODS code H83051
1.8 km
THORNTON HEATH MEDICAL CENTRE
61A GILLETT ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8RL
ODS code H83022
1.8 km
RAINBOW HEALTH CENTRE
BROAD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE - ANNEX, 1-13 LODGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2PD
ODS code Y00182
1.9 km
MERSHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
30 NORBURY ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8JN
ODS code H83609
1.9 km
WHITEHORSE PRACTICE
87 WHITEHORSE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2JJ
ODS code H83034
2.2 km
GREENSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
26 LENNARD ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2UL
ODS code H83631
2.3 km
STREATHAM COMMON PRACTICE
293 STREATHAM HIGH ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 3NP
ODS code G85014
2.3 km
THE VALE SURGERY
STREATHAM VALE, LONDON, SW16 5SE
ODS code G85096
2.4 km
SELHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
27 SELHURST ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, LONDON, SE25 5QA
ODS code H83611
2.5 km
Showing 20 of 79 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Silverleigh Road
BCT · Norbury
- 0.1 miles
Goldwell Road
BCT · Norbury
- 0.1 miles
Recreation Way
BCT · Mitcham
- 0.2 miles
Goldwell Road
BCT · Norbury
- 0.2 miles
Lindsey Close
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
7,169 published events cover 12 months, averaging 597.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,514 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.