Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 20 primary and 5 secondary schools. Serenity School is the nearest published school at 1.3 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR5 1YX
Hooley, Merstham & Netherne · Reigate and Banstead · England
Updated September 2026
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- Local authority
- Reigate and Banstead
- Constituency
- East Surrey
- Postcode district
- CR5
- Postcode sector
- CR5 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR5 1YX
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 February 1990
- Terminated
- 1 December 1997
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR5
- Postcode sector
- CR5 1
- Latitude
- 51.286689
- Longitude
- -0.148649
- British National Grid easting
- 529,200
- British National Grid northing
- 155,800
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- South East · E12000008
- Local authority district
- Reigate and Banstead · E07000211
- Electoral ward
- Hooley, Merstham & Netherne · E05012875
- Parish or community
- E43000140
- Westminster constituency
- East Surrey · E14001215
- Output area
- E00170402
- Lower layer super output area
- Reigate and Banstead 004E · E01030569
- Middle layer super output area
- Reigate and Banstead 004 · E02006378
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 CR5
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 37
- Primary
- 20
- Secondary
- 5
- 2.1 km
Serenity School
Other independent special school
- 2.4 km
St Peter and St Paul Church Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 2.8 km
Merstham Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 205
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 69
- Anti social behaviour 33
- Criminal damage and arson 28
- Public order 23
- Other theft 12
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CR5 1 residents
- 10,441
Age bands in CR5 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.5%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.7%
- Age 65 and over
- 19.7%
2,130 residents
1,053 residents
2,684 residents
2,927 residents
2,160 residents
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 2024-04-08.
GP practices
3
within 5 km straight-line
OLD COULSDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A COURT AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 1HF
ODS code H83013
3.1 km
HOLMHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
12 THORNTON SIDE, WATERCOLOUR, REDHILL, RH1 2NP
ODS code H81048
3.8 km
BRAMLEY AVENUE SURGERY
1B BRAMLEY AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 2DR
ODS code H83052
4.1 km
Nearby transport
- 0.3 miles
Dean Lane
BCT · Hooley
- 0.3 miles
Church Lane
BCT · Hooley
- 0.3 miles
Church Lane
BCT · Hooley
- 0.5 miles
Star Lane
BCT · Hooley
- 0.5 miles
Church Lane Avenue
BCT · Hooley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Reigate and Banstead 004E, 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
7 of 10
Overall England rank
21,370 of 33,755
- Income
- 7 of 10
- Employment
- 7 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 5 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 8 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
205 published events cover 12 months, averaging 17.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 69 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.