Schools
37 open schools are in scope, including 19 primary and 5 secondary schools. Serenity School is the nearest published school at 1.1 miles.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR5 3TL
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 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR5 3TL
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 January 1991
- Terminated
- 1 May 1994
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR5
- Postcode sector
- CR5 3
- Latitude
- 51.288600
- Longitude
- -0.155743
- British National Grid easting
- 528,700
- British National Grid northing
- 156,000
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
- E00155893
- 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
- 19
- Secondary
- 5
- 1.8 km
Serenity School
Other independent special school
- 2.9 km
St Peter and St Paul Church Primary School
Voluntary aided school
- 3.0 km
Merstham Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 232
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 82
- Anti social behaviour 36
- Criminal damage and arson 29
- Public order 27
- Other theft 14
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CR5 3 residents
- 11,376
Age bands in CR5 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 20.9%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.5%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.3%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25%
- Age 65 and over
- 15.2%
2,349 residents
1,068 residents
3,293 residents
2,810 residents
1,701 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
4
within 5 km straight-line
OLD COULSDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A COURT AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 1HF
ODS code H83013
3.3 km
BRAMLEY AVENUE SURGERY
1B BRAMLEY AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 2DR
ODS code H83052
4.0 km
HOLMHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
12 THORNTON SIDE, WATERCOLOUR, REDHILL, RH1 2NP
ODS code H81048
4.0 km
LONGCROFT CLINIC
5 WOODMANSTERNE LANE, BANSTEAD, SM7 3HH
ODS code H81080
4.8 km
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Church Lane
BCT · Hooley
- 0.0 miles
Church Lane
BCT · Hooley
- 0.2 miles
Church Lane Avenue
BCT · Hooley
- 0.2 miles
Dean Lane
BCT · Hooley
- 0.3 miles
Star Lane
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
232 published events cover 12 months, averaging 19.333 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 82 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.