Property market
The five-year median is £250,000 from 7 recorded sales in CR7 7RX. 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 7RX
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 7RX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR7
- Postcode sector
- CR7 7
- Latitude
- 51.401483
- Longitude
- -0.105904
- British National Grid easting
- 531,851
- British National Grid northing
- 168,641
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
- E00004977
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 010A · E01000998
- 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
66 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 121c, Melfort Road, Thornton Heath, CR7 7RX | 25 June 2026 | £180,000 |
| 143, Melfort Road, Thornton Heath, CR7 7RX | 4 December 2025 | £355,000 |
| 109, The Upper Flat At, Melfort Road, Thornton Heath, CR7 7RX | 29 October 2025 | £250,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 188
- Primary
- 108
- Secondary
- 26
- 531 m
St James the Great RC Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
- 563 m
Beulah Infants' School
Academy sponsor led
- 571 m
Beulah Junior School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 7,787
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,753
- Anti social behaviour 988
- Vehicle crime 826
- Public order 497
- Other theft 494
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 86
- Postcode households
- 44
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- CR7 7 residents
- 18,341
44 female, 42 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 0.5% 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+
- 97.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 97.9%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 97.9%
- Gigabit-capable
- 97.9%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 97.9%
- 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
65
within 5 km
PARCHMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
97 PARCHMORE ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8LY
ODS code H83053
372 m
YOUR FAMILY PRACTICE
83 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JH
ODS code H83608
495 m
MERSHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
30 NORBURY ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8JN
ODS code H83609
717 m
BRIGSTOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
141 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JN
ODS code H83017
750 m
THORNTON HEATH MEDICAL CENTRE
61A GILLETT ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8RL
ODS code H83022
801 m
LEANDER FAMILY PRACTICE
949 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6JE
ODS code H83042
833 m
NORBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2B POLLARDS HILL NORTH, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 4NL
ODS code H83009
1.2 km
EVERSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
501 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6AR
ODS code H83020
1.5 km
LONDON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
515 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6AR
ODS code H83021
1.5 km
NORTH CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
518 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7HQ
ODS code H83011
1.5 km
FAIRVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
69 FAIRVIEW ROAD, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 5PX
ODS code H83624
1.6 km
SELHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
27 SELHURST ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, LONDON, SE25 5QA
ODS code H83611
1.7 km
SOUTH NORWOOD HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
103A SOUTH NORWOOD HILL, LONDON, SE25 6BY
ODS code H83010
1.8 km
WHITEHORSE PRACTICE
87 WHITEHORSE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2JJ
ODS code H83034
1.8 km
RAINBOW HEALTH CENTRE
BROAD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE - ANNEX, 1-13 LODGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2PD
ODS code Y00182
1.9 km
AUCKLAND SURGERY
84A AUCKLAND ROAD, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 2DF
ODS code H83037
2.0 km
UPPER NORWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
130 CHURCH ROAD, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 2NT
ODS code H83005
2.0 km
WIDE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WIDE WAY, MITCHAM, CR4 1BP
ODS code H85029
2.0 km
GREENSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
26 LENNARD ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2UL
ODS code H83631
2.3 km
ST JAMES MEDICAL CENTRE
189A ST. JAMES'S ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2BZ
ODS code H83012
2.4 km
Showing 20 of 65 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 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Sandfield Gardens
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Sandfield Gardens
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Brook Road Thornton Heath
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.2 miles
Brook Road Thornton Heath
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.2 miles
Braemar Avenue
BCT · Thornton Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 010A, 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
2 of 10
Overall England rank
5,118 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 2 of 10
- Education and skills
- 4 of 10
- Health and disability
- 5 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 of 10
- Living environment
- 1 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
- 0
- 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
188 open schools are in scope, including 108 primary and 26 secondary schools. St James the Great RC Primary and Nursery School is the nearest published school at 531 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
7,787 published events cover 12 months, averaging 648.917 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,753 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.