Property market
The five-year median is £710,000 from 3 recorded sales in CR8 4JG. 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 4JG
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 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- CR8 4JG
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 July 1990
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- CR
- Postcode district
- CR8
- Postcode sector
- CR8 4
- Latitude
- 51.329978
- Longitude
- -0.128690
- British National Grid easting
- 530,469
- British National Grid northing
- 160,649
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
- E00005121
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 038C · E01001030
- 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
32 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 25, Downlands Road, Purley, CR8 4JG | 17 July 2025 | £710,000 |
| 1, Downlands Road, Purley, CR8 4JG | 7 February 2025 | £745,000 |
| 35, Downlands Road, Purley, CR8 4JG | 10 March 2022 | £622,000 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 89
- Primary
- 49
- Secondary
- 13
- 568 m
Beaumont Primary School
Community school
- 569 m
St Nicholas School
Community special school
- 744 m
Woodcote Primary School
Academy converter
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 2,141
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 691
- Anti social behaviour 268
- Shoplifting 215
- Vehicle crime 212
- Other theft 164
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 90
- Postcode households
- 27
- Residents per household
- 3.3
- CR8 4 residents
- 6,333
36 female, 54 male
Age bands in CR8 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 19.4%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11%
- Age 25 to 44
- 26.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.3%
- Age 65 and over
- 16.7%
1,215 residents
692 residents
1,675 residents
1,648 residents
1,048 residents
This postcode contained 1.4% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider CR8 4 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+
- 96.3%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 96.3%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 96.3%
- Gigabit-capable
- 96.3%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 96.3%
- 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
20
within 5 km
BRAMLEY AVENUE SURGERY
1B BRAMLEY AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 2DR
ODS code H83052
1.2 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
1.6 km
OLD COULSDON MEDICAL PRACTICE
2A COURT AVENUE, COULSDON, CR5 1HF
ODS code H83013
2.7 km
PARKSIDE GROUP PRACTICE
27 WYCHE GROVE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6EX
ODS code H83015
3.1 km
SHOTFIELD MEDICAL PRACTICE
JUBILEE HEALTH CENTRE, SHOTFIELD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0HY
ODS code H85115
3.4 km
WALLINGTON FAMILY PRACTICE
WALLINGTON FAMILY PRACT, JUBILEE HEALTH CTR WEST, SHOTFIELD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0HY
ODS code H85653
3.4 km
VIOLET LANE MEDICAL PRACTICE
231 VIOLET LANE, CROYDON, CR0 4HN
ODS code H83007
3.7 km
HALING PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
96 BRIGHTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 6AD
ODS code H83031
3.7 km
MANOR PRACTICE
57 MANOR ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 0DE
ODS code H85116
3.9 km
PARK ROAD MEDICAL CENTRE
1A PARK ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 8AW
ODS code H85022
4.0 km
MALDON ROAD SURGERY
35 MALDON ROAD, WALLINGTON, SM6 8BL
ODS code H85113
4.1 km
BEECHES SURGERY
9 HILL ROAD, CARSHALTON, SM5 3RB
ODS code H85662
4.3 km
LONGCROFT CLINIC
5 WOODMANSTERNE LANE, BANSTEAD, SM7 3HH
ODS code H81080
4.5 km
QUEENHILL MEDICAL PRACTICE
31 QUEENHILL ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8DU
ODS code H83014
4.6 km
BIRDHURST MEDICAL PRACTICE
1 BIRDHURST AVENUE, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7DX
ODS code H83627
4.7 km
SELSDON PARK MEDICAL PRACTICE
97 ADDINGTON ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 8LG
ODS code H83018
4.7 km
FARLEY ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
53 FARLEY ROAD, SOUTH CROYDON, CR2 7NG
ODS code H83004
4.7 km
CROYDON SAS
IMPACT HOUSE, 2 EDRIDGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 1FE
ODS code Y08402
5.0 km
SUTTON MEDICAL CENTRE
181 CARSHALTON ROAD, SUTTON, SM1 4NG
ODS code H85053
5.0 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 2026-09-05. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.1 miles
Musgrove Close
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.2 miles
Brighton Road / Old Lodge Lane
BCT · Purley
- 0.2 miles
Smitham Downs Road
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.2 miles
Woodcrest Road
BCT · Woodcote
- 0.2 miles
The Drive Woodcote
BCT · Woodcote
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 038C, 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
30,741 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 10 of 10
- Education and skills
- 10 of 10
- Health and disability
- 9 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 8 of 10
- Living environment
- 4 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
89 open schools are in scope, including 49 primary and 13 secondary schools. Beaumont Primary School is the nearest published school at 568 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
2,141 published events cover 12 months, averaging 178.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 691 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.