Property market
The five-year median is £352,351 from 1 recorded sale in SW16 4RX. 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.
SW16 4RX
Norbury & Pollards Hill · Croydon · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- London
- Local authority
- Croydon
- Constituency
- Streatham and Croydon North
- Postcode district
- SW16
- Postcode sector
- SW16 4
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- SW16 4RX
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- SW
- Postcode district
- SW16
- Postcode sector
- SW16 4
- Latitude
- 51.403784
- Longitude
- -0.118116
- British National Grid easting
- 530,995
- British National Grid northing
- 168,875
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- London · E12000007
- Local authority district
- Croydon · E09000008
- Electoral ward
- Norbury & Pollards Hill · E05011472
- Parish or community
- E43000198
- Westminster constituency
- Streatham and Croydon North · E14001527
- Output area
- E00005415
- Lower layer super output area
- Croydon 003B · E01001086
- Middle layer super output area
- Croydon 003 · E02000196
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 SW16
Property
14 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 13b, Melrose Avenue, London, SW16 4RX | 12 December 2022 | £352,351 |
| 1a, Melrose Avenue, London, SW16 4RX | 6 November 2017 | £1,212,500 |
| 21, Melrose Avenue, London, SW16 4RX | 22 January 2016 | £444,950 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 204
- Primary
- 120
- Secondary
- 24
- 552 m
Winterbourne Boys' Academy
Academy sponsor led
- 552 m
Winterbourne Junior Girls' School
Community school
- 552 m
Winterbourne Nursery and Infants' School
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 6,838
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 2,344
- Anti social behaviour 888
- Vehicle crime 753
- Shoplifting 468
- Other theft 413
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 46
- Postcode households
- 17
- Residents per household
- 2.7
- SW16 4 residents
- 14,031
25 female, 21 male
Age bands in SW16 4
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 17.7%
- Age 15 to 24
- 11.6%
- Age 25 to 44
- 31.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 25.2%
- Age 65 and over
- 13.9%
2,579 residents
1,687 residents
4,611 residents
3,664 residents
2,024 residents
This postcode contained 0.3% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider SW16 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+
- 100%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 89.5%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 89.5%
- Gigabit-capable
- 89.5%
- 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
75
within 5 km
NORBURY MEDICAL PRACTICE
2B POLLARDS HILL NORTH, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 4NL
ODS code H83009
328 m
LEANDER FAMILY PRACTICE
949 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6JE
ODS code H83042
521 m
FAIRVIEW MEDICAL CENTRE
69 FAIRVIEW ROAD, NORBURY, LONDON, SW16 5PX
ODS code H83624
886 m
BRIGSTOCK MEDICAL PRACTICE
141 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JN
ODS code H83017
1.1 km
WIDE WAY MEDICAL CENTRE
WIDE WAY, MITCHAM, CR4 1BP
ODS code H85029
1.2 km
YOUR FAMILY PRACTICE
83 BRIGSTOCK ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7JH
ODS code H83608
1.2 km
PARCHMORE MEDICAL CENTRE
97 PARCHMORE ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8LY
ODS code H83053
1.2 km
MERSHAM MEDICAL CENTRE
30 NORBURY ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8JN
ODS code H83609
1.5 km
THORNTON HEATH MEDICAL CENTRE
61A GILLETT ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 8RL
ODS code H83022
1.7 km
EVERSLEY MEDICAL CENTRE
501 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6AR
ODS code H83020
1.8 km
LONDON ROAD MEDICAL PRACTICE
515 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 6AR
ODS code H83021
1.8 km
STREATHAM COMMON PRACTICE
293 STREATHAM HIGH ROAD, STREATHAM, LONDON, SW16 3NP
ODS code G85014
1.8 km
NORTH CROYDON MEDICAL CENTRE
518 LONDON ROAD, THORNTON HEATH, CR7 7HQ
ODS code H83011
1.8 km
TAMWORTH HOUSE MEDICAL CENTRE
341 TAMWORTH LANE, MITCHAM, CR4 1DL
ODS code H85033
2.0 km
THE VALE SURGERY
STREATHAM VALE, LONDON, SW16 5SE
ODS code G85096
2.0 km
RAINBOW HEALTH CENTRE
BROAD GREEN HEALTH CENTRE - ANNEX, 1-13 LODGE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2PD
ODS code Y00182
2.3 km
WHITEHORSE PRACTICE
87 WHITEHORSE ROAD, CROYDON, CR0 2JJ
ODS code H83034
2.5 km
NORTH WOOD GROUP PRACTICE
CROWN DALE MEDICAL CENTRE, 61 CROWN DALE, UPPER NORWOOD, LONDON, SE19 3NY
ODS code G85022
2.5 km
THORNTON ROAD & VALLEY PARK SURGERY
HEALTHY LIVING CENTRE, FRANKLIN WAY, CROYDON, CR0 4YD
ODS code H83051
2.5 km
SELHURST MEDICAL CENTRE
27 SELHURST ROAD, SOUTH NORWOOD, LONDON, SE25 5QA
ODS code H83611
2.5 km
Showing 20 of 75 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
- 0.1 miles
Ederline Avenue Norbury
BCT · Norbury
- 0.1 miles
Ederline Avenue Norbury
BCT · Norbury
- 0.2 miles
Galpins Road
BCT · Norbury
- 0.2 miles
Galpins Road / London Road
BCT · Norbury
- 0.2 miles
London Road / Galpins Road
BCT · Norbury
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for Croydon 003B, 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
6 of 10
Overall England rank
19,643 of 33,755
- Income
- 5 of 10
- Employment
- 5 of 10
- Education and skills
- 6 of 10
- Health and disability
- 8 of 10
- Crime
- 6 of 10
- Housing and services
- 7 of 10
- Living environment
- 5 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
204 open schools are in scope, including 120 primary and 24 secondary schools. Winterbourne Boys' Academy is the nearest published school at 552 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
6,838 published events cover 12 months, averaging 569.833 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 2,344 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.