Property market
The five-year median is £262,500 from 10 recorded sales in CR8 1HR. 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.
CR8 1HR
Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Purley
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon South
- Postcode district
- CR8
- Postcode sector
- CR8 1
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR8 1HR
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR8
- Postcode sector
- CR8 1
- Latitude
- 51.333267
- Longitude
- -0.098883
- British National Grid easting
- 532,536
- British National Grid northing
- 161,068
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- Purley Oaks & Riddlesdown · E05011477
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Croydon South · E14001187
- Output area
- E00005489
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 042D · E01001104
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 042 · E02000235
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 CR8
Property
65 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 80, Lower Barn Road, Purley, CR8 1HR | 25 November 2025 | £166,000 |
| Riddleah Court, 120, Flat 4, Lower Barn Road, Purley, CR8 1HR | 27 March 2024 | £317,000 |
| Riddleah Court, 120, Flat 3, Lower Barn Road, Purley, CR8 1HR | 25 May 2023 | £330,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 92
- Primary
- 49
- Secondary
- 14
- 739 m
Abingdon House School Purley
Other independent special school
- 851 m
Harris Primary Academy Kenley
Academy sponsor led
- 1.1 km
Riddlesdown Collegiate
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,899
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 578
- Anti social behaviour 260
- Vehicle crime 225
- Shoplifting 188
- Other theft 138
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 59
- Postcode households
- 29
- Residents per household
- 2.0
- CR8 1 residents
- 5,136
31 female, 28 male
Age bands in CR8 1
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 18.2%
- Age 15 to 24
- 9.7%
- Age 25 to 44
- 25%
- Age 45 to 64
- 28.6%
- Age 65 and over
- 18.5%
856 residents
454 residents
1,173 residents
1,341 residents
867 residents
This postcode contained 1.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CR8 1 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+
- 78.9%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 73.7%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 73.7%
- Gigabit-capable
- 73.7%
- 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
21
within 5 km
KESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PURLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSP, 856 BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, CR8 2YL
ODS code H83016
1.4 km
PARKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
27 WYCHE GROVE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6EX
ODS code H83015
1.9 km
WOODCOTE MEDICAL
32 FOXLEY LANE, PURLEY, CR8 3EE
ODS code H83024
2.2 km
QUEENHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
31 QUEENHILL ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8DU
ODS code H83014
2.6 km
SELSDON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
97 ADDINGTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8LG
ODS code H83018
2.6 km
HALING PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
96 BRIGHTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6AD
ODS code H83031
2.6 km
FARLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
53 FARLEY ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7NG
ODS code H83004
2.7 km
VIOLET LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
231 VIOLET LANE, CROYDON, CR0 4HN
ODS code H83007
3.1 km
BRAMLEY AVENUE SURGERY
1B BRAMLEY AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 2DR
ODS code H83052
3.2 km
OLD COULSDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A COURT AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 1HF
ODS code H83013
3.2 km
BIRDHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BIRDHURST AVENUE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7DX
ODS code H83627
3.6 km
WARLINGHAM GREEN MED PRAC
1 CHURCH ROAD, WARLINGHAM, CR6 9NW
ODS code H81119
3.7 km
CROYDON SAS
IMPACT HOUSE, 2 EDRIDGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1FE
ODS code Y08402
4.1 km
FRIENDS ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
49-51 FRIENDS ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1ED
ODS code H83019
4.2 km
ELIZABETH HOUSE MEDICAL PRACTICE
515 LIMPSFIELD ROAD, WARLINGHAM, CR6 9LF
ODS code H81116
4.4 km
SHOTFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
JUBILEE HEALTH CENTRE, SHOTFIELD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0HY
ODS code H85115
4.5 km
WALLINGTON FAMILY PRACTICE
WALLINGTON FAMILY PRACT, JUBILEE HEALTH CTR WEST, SHOTFIELD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0HY
ODS code H85653
4.5 km
EAST CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
59 ADDISCOMBE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 6SD
ODS code H83044
4.7 km
MANOR PRACTICE
57 MANOR ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0DE
ODS code H85116
4.8 km
MALDON ROAD SURGERY
35 MALDON ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 8BL
ODS code H85113
4.9 km
Showing 20 of 21 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.0 miles
Riddlesdown
RSE · Purley
- 0.0 miles
Riddlesdown
RSE · Purley
- 0.1 miles
Riddlesdown Rail Station
RLY · Purley
- 0.1 miles
Riddlesdown
RSE · Purley
- 0.2 miles
Riddlesdown School / Riddlesdown Stn
BCT · Kenley
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 042D, 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
10 of 10
Overall England rank
31,030 of 33,755
- Income
- 8 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 7 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
- 1
- Low risk addresses
- 28
- 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
92 open schools are in scope, including 49 primary and 14 secondary schools. Abingdon House School Purley is the nearest published school at 739 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
1,899 published events cover 12 months, averaging 158.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 578 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.