Schools
190 open schools are in scope, including 111 primary and 26 secondary schools. Beulah Junior School is the nearest published school at 50 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR7 8YS
Thornton Heath · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Ward
- Thornton Heath
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Streatham and Croydon North
- Postcode district
- CR7
- Postcode sector
- CR7 8
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR7 8YS
- Status
- Terminated
- Introduced
- 1 August 1993
- Terminated
- 1 June 1999
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR7
- Postcode sector
- CR7 8
- Latitude
- 51.404739
- Longitude
- -0.099271
- British National Grid easting
- 532,303
- British National Grid northing
- 169,015
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- Thornton Heath · E05011486
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Streatham and Croydon North · E14001527
- Output area
- E00005729
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 005D · E01001152
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 005 · E02000198
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
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 190
- Primary
- 111
- Secondary
- 26
- 50 m
Beulah Junior School
Community school
- 104 m
Beulah Infants' School
Academy sponsor led
- 477 m
St James the Great RC Primary and Nursery School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,369
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,283
- Anti social behaviour 843
- Vehicle crime 739
- Other theft 431
- Public order 369
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- Not supplied
- Postcode households
- Not supplied
- Residents per household
- Not available
- CR7 8 residents
- 19,009
Age bands in CR7 8
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19%
- Age 15 to 24
- 13.3%
- Age 25 to 44
- 29%
- Age 45 to 64
- 27.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 11.5%
3,607 residents
2,510 residents
5,499 residents
5,148 residents
2,171 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
65
within 5 km straight-line
MERSHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
30 NORBURY ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8JN
ODS code H83609
172 m
PARCHMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
97 PARCHMORE ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8LY
ODS code H83053
372 m
THORNTON HEATH MEDICAL CENTRE
61A GILLETT ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8RL
ODS code H83022
809 m
YOUR FAMILY PRACTICE
83 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JH
ODS code H83608
880 m
BRIGSTOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
141 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JN
ODS code H83017
1.3 km
SOUTH NORWOOD HILL MEDICAL CENTRE
103A SOUTH NORWOOD HILL, LONDON, SE25 6BY
ODS code H83010
1.3 km
AUCKLAND SURGERY
84A AUCKLAND ROAD, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 2DF
ODS code H83037
1.4 km
UPPER NORWOOD GROUP PRACTICE
130 CHURCH ROAD, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 2NT
ODS code H83005
1.4 km
LEANDER FAMILY PRACTICE
949 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6JE
ODS code H83042
1.4 km
NORBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2B POLLARDS HILL NORTH, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 4NL
ODS code H83009
1.6 km
SELHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
27 SELHURST ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, LONDON, SE25 5QA
ODS code H83611
1.8 km
FAIRVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
69 FAIRVIEW ROAD, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 5PX
ODS code H83624
1.9 km
NORTH WOOD GROUP PRACTICE
CROWN DALE MEDICAL CENTRE, 61 CROWN DALE, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 3NY
ODS code G85022
2.0 km
NORTH CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
518 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7HQ
ODS code H83011
2.0 km
EVERSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
501 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6AR
ODS code H83020
2.0 km
LONDON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
515 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6AR
ODS code H83021
2.0 km
WHITEHORSE PRACTICE
87 WHITEHORSE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2JJ
ODS code H83034
2.1 km
RAINBOW HEALTH CENTRE
BROAD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE - ANNEX, 1-13 LODGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2PD
ODS code Y00182
2.3 km
STREATHAM COMMON PRACTICE
293 STREATHAM HIGH ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 3NP
ODS code G85014
2.5 km
NORTHWAY ROAD SURGERY
139 NORTHWAY ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6JJ
ODS code H83008
2.5 km
Showing 20 of 65 matching practices.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Beulah Road (CR7)
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Beulah Crescent / Beulah Family Church
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Beulah Road (CR7)
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Beulah Family Church
BCT · Thornton Heath
- 0.1 miles
Sandfield Road
BCT · Thornton Heath
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 005D, 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
5,819 of 33,755
- Income
- 2 of 10
- Employment
- 3 of 10
- Education and skills
- 3 of 10
- Health and disability
- 4 of 10
- Crime
- 2 of 10
- Housing and services
- 3 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.
Evidence in context
Recorded crime
6,369 published events cover 12 months, averaging 530.75 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,283 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.