Schools
93 open schools are in scope, including 53 primary and 15 secondary schools. Woodcote High School is the nearest published school at 303 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
CR8 3DB
Purley & Woodcote · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Purley
- Ward
- Purley & Woodcote
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Croydon South
- Postcode district
- CR8
- Postcode sector
- CR8 3
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR8 3DB
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR8
- Postcode sector
- CR8 3
- Latitude
- 51.333211
- Longitude
- -0.139699
- British National Grid easting
- 529,693
- British National Grid northing
- 160,989
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- Purley & Woodcote · E05011476
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Croydon South · E14001187
- Output area
- E00005120
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 038A · E01001028
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 038 · E02000231
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
7 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 50c, Smitham Bottom Lane, Purley, CR8 3DB | 26 June 2017 | £422,000 |
| 50a, Smitham Bottom Lane, Purley, CR8 3DB | 30 June 2015 | £440,000 |
| 50c, Smitham Bottom Lane, Purley, CR8 3DB | 3 March 2015 | £350,500 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 93
- Primary
- 53
- Secondary
- 15
- 303 m
Woodcote High School
Academy converter
- 423 m
Woodcote Primary School
Academy converter
- 611 m
Cumnor House School
Other independent school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 1,313
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 450
- Anti social behaviour 164
- Vehicle crime 148
- Shoplifting 119
- Burglary 97
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 41
- Postcode households
- 6
- Residents per household
- 6.8
- CR8 3 residents
- 5,210
26 female, 15 male
Age bands in CR8 3
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 14.5%
- Age 15 to 24
- 10%
- Age 25 to 44
- 24.4%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.1%
- Age 65 and over
- 25%
802 residents
557 residents
1,355 residents
1,447 residents
1,386 residents
This postcode contained 0.8% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CR8 3 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
18
within 5 km
BRAMLEY AVENUE SURGERY
1B BRAMLEY AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 2DR
ODS code H83052
1.1 km
WOODCOTE MEDICAL
32 FOXLEY LANE, PURLEY, CR8 3EE
ODS code H83024
1.4 km
KESTON MEDICAL PRACTICE
PURLEY WAR MEMORIAL HOSP, 856 BRIGHTON ROAD, PURLEY, CR8 2YL
ODS code H83016
1.9 km
SHOTFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
JUBILEE HEALTH CENTRE, SHOTFIELD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0HY
ODS code H85115
2.8 km
WALLINGTON FAMILY PRACTICE
WALLINGTON FAMILY PRACT, JUBILEE HEALTH CTR WEST, SHOTFIELD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0HY
ODS code H85653
2.8 km
MANOR PRACTICE
57 MANOR ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0DE
ODS code H85116
3.3 km
OLD COULSDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A COURT AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 1HF
ODS code H83013
3.3 km
PARK ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
1A PARK ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 8AW
ODS code H85022
3.5 km
PARKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
27 WYCHE GROVE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6EX
ODS code H83015
3.5 km
BEECHES SURGERY
9 HILL ROAD, CARSHALTON, SM5 3RB
ODS code H85662
3.6 km
MALDON ROAD SURGERY
35 MALDON ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 8BL
ODS code H85113
3.6 km
VIOLET LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
231 VIOLET LANE, CROYDON, CR0 4HN
ODS code H83007
3.7 km
LONGCROFT CLINIC
5 WOODMANSTERNE LANE, BANSTEAD, SM7 3HH
ODS code H81080
3.8 km
HALING PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
96 BRIGHTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6AD
ODS code H83031
3.9 km
SUTTON MEDICAL CENTRE
181 CARSHALTON ROAD, SUTTON, SM1 4NG
ODS code H85053
4.2 km
WRYTHE GREEN SURGERY
WRYTHE LANE, CARSHALTON, SM5 2RE
ODS code H85025
4.8 km
MULGRAVE ROAD SURGERY
48 MULGRAVE ROAD, BELMONT, SUTTON, SM2 6LX
ODS code H85018
4.8 km
BIRDHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BIRDHURST AVENUE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7DX
ODS code H83627
4.8 km
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
Upper Woodcote Village
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.0 miles
Upper Woodcote Village
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.1 miles
Smitham Bottom Lane
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.1 miles
Smitham Bottom Lane
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.2 miles
Smitham Downs Road / Woodcote
BCT · Woodcote
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 038A, 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
31,514 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 8 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 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
- 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
Recorded crime
1,313 published events cover 12 months, averaging 109.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 450 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.