Croydon

18°CLight rain shower

• Today: 25° / 16° · 61% rain
• Tomorrow: 22° / 13° · Mist

Source: WeatherAPI

Sunrise 06:32Sunset 19:19

12h 47m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

7US AQI · Good

Main pollutant: coarse particles (PM10)

Source: WAQI · Lambeth - Streatham Green, United Kingdom

1388 reported · July 2026▼ 10% YoY

• Violence & sexual offences440
• Anti-social behaviour306
• Shoplifting130
• Drugs91

348 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Selhurst · Metropolitan

Source: data.police.uk (within ~1 mile)

933 reported road collisions (2024)

153 killed or seriously injured · 1,047 casualties · 23.9 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

500+ food businesses within 2 miles

• 388 rated 4–5 ★ (286 top)
• 38 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency · split of the nearest 500

• Nearest station: West Croydon (0.5 km)
• 72 bus stops within ~½ mile

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

£394,736 average▼ 1.9% YoY

Across Croydon · to 2026-06

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

£1,581 average monthly rent▲ 3.3% YoY

• 1 bed £1,264
• 2 bed £1,572
• 3 bed £1,856

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-07

10.6× house price to earnings

A typical home costs 10.6 times median annual pay (10.5× for cheaper homes vs lower pay).

Source: ONS house price to workplace earnings ratio · 2025

• Cheapest petrol: 136.8p · AppleGreen (10.9 km)
• Cheapest diesel: 142.8p · AppleGreen (10.9 km)

58 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

150 charging locations within ~8 km

• 13 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
• Fastest nearby: 250 kW
• Nearest: Tavistock Road (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

• Sports centres3
• Gyms9
• Sports pitches27
• Playgrounds19

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

390,719 residents in Croydon · 4,516/km²

• Under 16: 21%
• 16–64: 66%
• 65+: 14%

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 102 of 317 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

2% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2019

£2,600 a year · Band D, 2026-27

Most homes here are Band C (31% of 168,250)

Source: VOA council-tax stock · MHCLG band levels 2026-27

159 schools · 63,219 pupils

87 primary · 23 secondary · 49 other

Ofsted: 47 of 56 graded schools rated Good or Outstanding (84%)

127inspected under Ofsted’s 2024+ framework (graded by area, no single overall grade)

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Croydon

486 CQC-registered services

• Care homes129
• GP practices73
• Dentists89
• Homecare agencies155
• Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 92% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 1 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Croydon

• Not in the Green Belt
• 52 listed buildings within ~1.5 km

Source: planning.data.gov.uk (England)

387 applications decided

71.6% granted · 277 granted, 110 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q1

Sarah Jones

Labour

Croydon West

Source: UK Parliament

Conservative majority · directly-elected mayor

• Lab 30
• Con 28
• LD 2
• Grn 7
• Ref 2
• Oth 1

Source: Open Council Data UK (CC BY-SA)

• Schools32
• GPs & clinics11
• Pharmacies14
• Supermarkets19
• Parks & greens30
• Restaurants & cafés210

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

16,200 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2025)

2,358 jobs advertised · £41,598 avg

e.g. General Manager - New Club Opening - Croydon, Head Coach - New Club Opening - Croydon, Retail Advisor

Source: Adzuna

£856 median full-time weekly pay

6.2% of residents aged 16–64 claim unemployment-related benefits

£27,407 disposable income per head (2024)

Source: ONS / Nomis (claimant count · ASHE) · ONS regional GDHI

43% of homes rated EPC C or above

Most common band: D · 182,880 certificates

10.2% of households were in fuel poverty (2023)

Source: MHCLG EPC statistics · DESNZ sub-regional fuel poverty

18% low-carbon electricity

Gas 55% · Imports 27% · Wind 7% · Nuclear 7%

235 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Life expectancy: 84.5 yrs women · 80.4 yrs men

Healthy life expectancy: 67.5 women · 66.7 men

61% of adults overweight or obese

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2025

• Life satisfaction7.0
• Feeling worthwhile7.6
• Happiness yesterday7.1
• Anxiety yesterday (lower is better)4.0

Average rating out of 10 · ONS personal well-being 2022-23

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in Croydon West:

• Do not ban social media for under 16s334 local signatures · 217,501 nationwide
• Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership296 local signatures · 242,705 nationwide
• Review the evidence and fund the addition of SMA to the Newborn Screening Test113 local signatures · 151,287 nationwide
• Hold a referendum to bring the water industry into public ownership112 local signatures · 163,883 nationwide
• Ban anyone convicted of terrorism offences from standing for public office101 local signatures · 205,058 nationwide

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-08-06

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  The Island, Croydon · 0.2 km

  The Island is a residential skyscraper in the London Borough of Croydon, London. In 2018, the building's 17th-floor penthouse apartment was described as the "most expensive flat in Croydon".

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  St Mary's Church, Croydon · 0.4 km

  St Mary's Church or Our Lady of Reparation Church is a Catholic Parish church in Croydon. It was built from 1863 to 1864 and designed by E. W. Pugin and Frederick Walters. It is architecturally in the Gothic Revival s…

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  St Mary's Catholic High School, Croydon · 0.4 km

  St. Mary's Roman Catholic High School is a co-educational, 11-19 secondary school in Croydon, England.

• Harris Invictus Academy Croydon · 0.5 km

  Harris Invictus Academy Croydon is an 11–18 mixed, free secondary school and sixth form in Croydon, Greater London, England. It was established in September 2014 and is part of the Harris Federation.

• Croydon Co-operative Society · 0.5 km

  The Croydon Co-operative Society was a cooperative retailer in Croydon and surrounding parts of Surrey, England. In 1918, it became part of the new South Suburban Co-operative Society, now the Co-operative Group.

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  Saffron Square · 0.5 km

  Saffron Square is a town square and a skyscraper in Croydon, South London, England. The purple and red Saffron Tower is currently the second-tallest building in Croydon.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)