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Warlingham

Warlingham is a town in Greater London, England, with a population of around 7,970. There is 1 GP or clinic, 1 pharmacy and 14 restaurants or cafés, along with 14 bus stops and the nearest railway station is Upper Warlingham, 1.6 km away. The average sold house price is around £563,808 and there were around 79 recorded street crimes in June 2026, most commonly violence & sexual offences. This page gathers weather, crime, food hygiene, transport, flood risk, house prices, population, deprivation and your local MP for the Warlingham area — all from official UK open data.

On deprivation, the Croydon area is more deprived than the average in England (IoD2025). The wider council area has around 390,719 residents at roughly 4,516 people per km².

Council
Croydon
County
Greater London
Constituency
Croydon South
Police force
Metropolitan Police
30/ 100

My Area Score

Challenged

Ranked 278th of 294 English council areas — better than 5% of them.

Low crime35
Home affordability24
Affordable rents17
Good schools31
Life expectancy58
Low deprivation35
Employment6
Low council tax12

A percentile blend of eight open measures (100 = best in England); bars show this area’s England-wide percentile on each. See the rankings · methodology

Weather

8°CMist

  • Today: 12° / 7° · 38% rain
  • Tomorrow: 12° / 8° · Patchy rain nearby

Source: WeatherAPI

Daylight

Sunrise 06:53Sunset 16:34

9h 41m of daylight today

Next bank holiday: Christmas Day, Fri 25 Dec

Source: sunrise-sunset.org · gov.uk

Air quality

73US AQI · Moderate

Main pollutant: fine particles (PM2.5)

Source: WAQI · London Honor Oak Park, United Kingdom

Air pollution (PM2.5)

  • 8.4 µg/m³ average fine-particle (PM2.5) concentration
  • 6.3% of adult (30+) deaths estimated attributable to fine-particle pollution

Lower is better for both figures.

Source: OHID Fingertips · 2024

Crime

66 reported · August 2026▼ 7% YoY

  • Violence & sexual offences19
  • Anti-social behaviour13
  • Vehicle crime8
  • Criminal damage & arson7

4 stop & searches · mostly controlled drugs

Neighbourhood team: Warlingham, Woldingham, Chelsham, Farleigh & Tatsfield · Surrey

Local policing priorities

  • Anti Social driving involving E-Bikes and E-Scooters in Warlingham and the surrounding area causing alarm and distress to other road user…
  • The Warlingham area in the north of the borough has recently seen the majority of recorded burglary offences, likely due to the vicinity…

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

Road safety

937 reported road collisions (2025)

150 killed or seriously injured · 1,067 casualties · 24 collisions per 10,000 residents

Source: DfT reported road collisions (STATS19)

Food hygiene

138 food businesses within 2 miles

  • 118 rated 4–5 ★ (106 top)
  • 3 rated 0–2 (poor)

Source: Food Standards Agency

Flood risk

No active flood warnings nearby.

Buses & trains

  • Nearest station: Upper Warlingham (1.4 km)
  • 20 bus stops within ~½ mile

Live trains from Upper Warlingham (1.4 km):

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Live buses at Warlingham Green:

  • 403 → West Croydon · 10 min
  • 403 → West Croydon · 30 min

Source: OpenStreetMap, TfL, National Rail

House prices

£396,718 average▼ 1.5% YoY

Across Croydon · to 2026-08

Detached£848,183
Semi-detached£544,247
Terraced£404,424
Flat£257,891

Source: UK House Price Index (HM Land Registry)

Private rents

£1,582 average monthly rent▲ 3.2% YoY

  • 1 bed £1,265
  • 2 bed £1,573
  • 3 bed £1,858

Source: ONS Price Index of Private Rents · to 2026-08

Affordability

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

Property sales

3,567 property sales in the last 12 months

12 months to May 2026

A busier or quieter market is not by itself good or bad. Monthly counts are small and volatile, so only the annual total is shown.

Source: HM Land Registry UK HPI, 12 months to 2026-05

Fuel prices

  • Cheapest petrol: 154.9p · BP (10.3 km)
  • Cheapest diesel: 187.9p · BP (10.3 km)

12 stations within ~8 miles

Source: CMA fuel price scheme

EV charging

94 charging locations within ~8 km

  • 28 with rapid charging (50 kW+)
  • Fastest nearby: 250 kW
  • Nearest: MFG Warlingham (0.3 km)

Source: Open Charge Map

Sport & leisure

  • Sports centres7
  • Swimming pools4
  • Sports pitches45
  • Golf courses1
  • Playgrounds3

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Population

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

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

Source: ONS Census 2021 (local authority)

Internal migration

  • Moves in from elsewhere in the UK32,080
  • Moves out to elsewhere in the UK36,566
  • Net moves−4,486

Residential moves between local authorities (counts of moves, not people) · ONS Internal migration, YE Jun 2025

Deprivation

More deprived than the average in England

Ranked 105 of 296 English local authorities (1 = most deprived)

3% of neighbourhoods are in England’s most deprived 10%

Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Council tax

£2,600 a year · Band D, 2026-27

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

A £1,733
B £2,022
C £2,311
D £2,600
E £3,178
F £3,755
G £4,333
H £5,200

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

Schools

158 schools · 63,165 pupils

87 primary · 23 secondary · 48 other

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

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

Secondary schools:

  • Riddlesdown CollegiateOutstanding
  • Ark Blake AcademyGood
  • Coombe Wood SchoolGood
  • Harris Academy PurleyGood
  • Harris Academy South NorwoodGood
  • Meridian High SchoolGood
  • Shirley High School Performing Arts CollegeGood
  • St Joseph's CollegeGood
  • Coloma Convent Girls' SchoolRequires improvement
  • Oasis Academy ArenaRequires improvement
  • The Quest AcademyRequires improvement
  • Archbishop Tenison's CofE High School
  • Harris Academy Beulah Hill
  • Harris City Academy Crystal Palace
  • Harris Invictus Academy Croydon
  • Norbury High School for Girls
  • Oasis Academy Coulsdon
  • Oasis Academy Shirley Park
  • Orchard Park High School
  • St Mary's Catholic High School
  • The Archbishop Lanfranc Academy
  • Thomas More Catholic School
  • Woodcote High School

Source: DfE Get Information about Schools · Ofsted · Croydon

Care & health services

487 CQC-registered services

  • Care homes129
  • GP practices72
  • Dentists89
  • Homecare agencies155
  • Hospitals & hospices8

CQC ratings: 91% of rated services Good or Outstanding · 3 Inadequate

Source: Care Quality Commission · Croydon

Heritage & planning

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

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

Planning decisions

418 applications decided

74.6% granted · 312 granted, 106 refused

Source: MHCLG planning statistics (PS2) · 2026 Q2

Your MP

Claire Coutinho

Conservative

East Surrey

Recent votes:

  • NoDraft Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications, Deemed Applications, Requests and Site Visits) (England) (Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2026
  • NoWithdrawal Agreement (Windsor Framework and Governance) (Amendment) Regulations 2026
  • NoDraft Code of Practice on Access and Unfair Practices During the Recognition and Derecognition Process
  • NoDraft Railways (Interoperability in Northern Ireland) (Convention on International Carriage by Rail) (Amendment) Regulations 2026

Source: UK Parliament

Council control

Conservative majority · directly-elected mayor

  • Lab 30
  • Con 28
  • LD 2
  • Grn 8
  • Ref 2

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

Amenities nearby

  • Schools6
  • GPs & clinics1
  • Pharmacies2
  • Supermarkets2
  • Parks & greens37
  • Restaurants & cafés25

Source: OpenStreetMap (within ~1 mile)

Local businesses

16,610 active business enterprises in the area

Source: ONS UK Business Counts (2026)

Jobs

24 jobs advertised · £50,793 avg

e.g. SENCO - (Olympus School - South Croydon), Trainee Teacher - Warlingham Village Primary School, Science Supply Teacher

Source: Adzuna

Local economy

£856 median full-time weekly pay

6.4% 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

Energy efficiency

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

Grid electricity

26% low-carbon electricity

Gas 54% · Imports 20% · Wind 14% · Nuclear 6%

232 gCO₂/kWh · very high intensity

Latest estimate for South East England · National Grid ESO

Health

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

Wellbeing

  • 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

Health services

2 GP surgeries · 1 pharmacy in CR6

  • Elizabeth House Medical Practice
  • Warlingham Green Med Prac

Source: NHS Organisation Data Service

Local petitions

Open UK Parliament petitions most signed in East Surrey:

Source: petition.parliament.uk · as of 2026-10-05

Notable places nearby

  • Warlingham · 0.0 km

    Warlingham is a village and civil parish in the Tandridge district of Surrey, England, 14 miles (23 km) south of London and 22 miles (35 km) east of Guildford. Warlingham is the centre of a civil parish that includes…

  • Blanchman's Farm · 0.7 km

    Blanchman's Farm is a 9.4-hectare (23-acre) Local Nature Reserve in Warlingham in Surrey. It is owned by Tandridge District Council and managed by the Blanchman's Farm Committee and the Downlands Countryside Project.

  • Caterham and Warlingham Urban District · 1.1 km

    Caterham and Warlingham was an Urban District of Surrey in England until 1974.

  • Warlingham School · 1.1 km

    Warlingham School is a large secondary school with pupils aged 11–16, and also has a sixth form for 16- to 18-year-olds. The school is located in the village of Warlingham, in Surrey, England. It is one of three secon…

  • Upper Warlingham railway station · 1.4 km

    Upper Warlingham railway station is on the Oxted line serving Warlingham and Whyteleafe in Surrey, England. It is in London fare zone 6, 15 miles 33 chains from London Bridge, although off peak trains run to and from…

  • Farleigh Rovers F.C. · 1.5 km

    Farleigh Rovers Football Club is a football club based in Warlingham, Surrey, England. The club are currently members of the Surrey South Eastern Combination Intermediate Division One and play at Parsonage Field.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA)

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Frequently asked questions

Where is Warlingham?
Warlingham is a town in Greater London, England, in the Croydon local authority.
What is the population of Warlingham?
Warlingham has an approximate settlement population of 7,970.
How deprived is Warlingham?
The Croydon local authority, which includes Warlingham, is more deprived than the average in England on the IoD2025.