Property market
The five-year median is £290,000 from 1 recorded sale in CR7 7AQ. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for Croydon is £394,736 in June 2026, down 1.9% year on year.
CR7 7AQ
Bensham Manor · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Thornton Heath
- Ward
- Bensham Manor
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon West
- Postcode district
- CR7
- Postcode sector
- CR7 7
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR7 7AQ
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR7
- Postcode sector
- CR7 7
- Latitude
- 51.397709
- Longitude
- -0.099419
- British National Grid easting
- 532,313
- British National Grid northing
- 168,233
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- Bensham Manor · E05011464
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Croydon West · E14001188
- Output area
- E00174952
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 010B · E01001000
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 010 · E02000203
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 CR7
Property
13 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 9, Kemsing Close, Thornton Heath, CR7 7AQ | 29 October 2021 | £290,000 |
| 8, Kemsing Close, Thornton Heath, CR7 7AQ | 3 December 2018 | £290,000 |
| 8, Kemsing Close, Thornton Heath, CR7 7AQ | 14 July 2016 | £260,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 186
- Primary
- 105
- Secondary
- 29
- 330 m
Thornton Heath Nursery School
Local authority nursery school
- 372 m
Bensham Manor School
Community special school
- 551 m
Whitehorse Manor Infant School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 8,677
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 3,189
- Anti social behaviour 1,062
- Vehicle crime 877
- Public order 604
- Other theft 563
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 25
- Postcode households
- 12
- Residents per household
- 2.1
- CR7 7 residents
- 18,341
13 female, 12 male
Age bands in CR7 7
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 12.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29.6%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.6%
3,527 residents
2,314 residents
5,361 residents
4,828 residents
2,107 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CR7 7 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
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.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 100%
- Gigabit-capable
- 100%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
64
within 5 km straight-line
THORNTON HEATH MEDICAL CENTRE
61A GILLETT ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8RL
ODS code H83022
233 m
YOUR FAMILY PRACTICE
83 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JH
ODS code H83608
290 m
PARCHMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
97 PARCHMORE ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8LY
ODS code H83053
429 m
BRIGSTOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
141 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JN
ODS code H83017
750 m
MERSHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
30 NORBURY ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8JN
ODS code H83609
779 m
SELHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
27 SELHURST ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, LONDON, SE25 5QA
ODS code H83611
1.1 km
LEANDER FAMILY PRACTICE
949 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6JE
ODS code H83042
1.3 km
WHITEHORSE PRACTICE
87 WHITEHORSE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2JJ
ODS code H83034
1.3 km
NORTH CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
518 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7HQ
ODS code H83011
1.3 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
SOUTH NORWOOD HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
103A SOUTH NORWOOD HILL, LONDON, SE25 6BY
ODS code H83010
1.4 km
RAINBOW HEALTH CENTRE
BROAD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE - ANNEX, 1-13 LODGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2PD
ODS code Y00182
1.5 km
NORBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2B POLLARDS HILL NORTH, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 4NL
ODS code H83009
1.8 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
189A ST. JAMES'S ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2BZ
ODS code H83012
1.8 km
AUCKLAND SURGERY
84A AUCKLAND ROAD, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 2DF
ODS code H83037
1.8 km
NORTHWAY ROAD SURGERY
139 NORTHWAY ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6JJ
ODS code H83008
1.9 km
GREENSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
26 LENNARD ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2UL
ODS code H83631
1.9 km
UPPER NORWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
130 CHURCH ROAD, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 2NT
ODS code H83005
2.0 km
MORLAND ROAD SURGERY
1 MORLAND ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6HA
ODS code H83023
2.1 km
Showing 20 of 64 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Thornton Heath Station
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Thornton Heath Station
RSE · Thornton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Thornton Heath Station
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Thornton Heath Rail Station
RLY · Thornton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Brook Road (CR7)
BCT · Thornton Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 010B, 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
3 of 10
Overall England rank
7,735 of 33,755
- Income
- 3 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 2 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.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 1
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
186 open schools are in scope, including 105 primary and 29 secondary schools. Thornton Heath Nursery School is the nearest published school at 330 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
8,677 published events cover 12 months, averaging 723.083 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 3,189 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.